History A-Level
Fashion and modernity
What Fashion and modernity means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Fashion and modernity
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Cycling prompted practical changes in dress, including bloomers, divided skirts and eventually rational dress, as corsets and long skirts were impractical.
Topics that use Fashion and modernity
- Paper 3, Option 34.1: Industrialisation and social change in Britain, 1759–1928: forging a new society - 4 John Kemp Starley: cycles, cycling clubs and emancipation, 1885–1901 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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- Clarion Cycling Clubs
- Design innovation
- Gender and emancipation
- Industrial growth
- Leisure pursuits
- Opposition and controversy
- Social and cultural change
- Social emancipation
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