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European History: 1600s-1800s

Extreme Fashions

Extreme Fashions
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     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grades 5 to 8
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   6.37

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    ballroom, outrageous, provided, colored, eighteenth, extremely, court, outer, corset, saying, design, entire, layer, section, separate, fitted
     content words:    Marie Antoinette, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun

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Extreme Fashions
By Sharon Fabian 		  
1     Caption: Portrait of Marie Antoinette by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1779, in a court dress à la Polonaise worn over extremely wide panniers.
 
2     "Why do these young people wear such extreme fashions? What bright colors! What strange shapes!"
 
3     "Some of their clothing is so tight that it is a wonder they can breathe!"
 
4     "I saw a young lady the other day - she couldn't fit through the doorway in her outfit! She had to turn sideways to pass through!"

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