Question

The simplicity of clothing of 'Sans-Culottes' was meant to express __________________.

• A. the poverty among the common people
• B. the prosperity of textile industries
• C. the idea of equality
• D. none of the above

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

the idea of equality

Members of the Jacobin clubs called themselves the ‘sans culottes’ to distinguish themselves from the aristocracy who wore the fashionable ‘knee breeches’. Sans culottes literally meant those ‘without knee breeches’. The simplicity of clothing was meant to express the idea of equality.