Studying late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artifacts from an agricultural and domestic site in Texas, archaeologist Ayana O. Flewellen found that Black women employed as farm workers utilized hook-and-eye closures to fasten their clothes at the waist, giving themselves a silhouette similar to the one that was popular in contemporary fashion and typically achieved through more restrictive garments such as corsets. Flewellen argues that this sartorial practice shows that these women balanced hegemonic ideals of femininity with the requirements of their physically demanding occupation.

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The details and facts help to draw the main idea of the passage.

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Choice A is incorrect. The text never discusses the rate of fashion change among Black female farmworkers. The text alsonever categorizes Flewellen’s fi ndings as "unexpected."

To describe an unexpected discovery that altered a researcher’s view of how rapidly fashions among Black femalefarmworkers in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Texas changed during the period.

Choice B is incorrect. The text actually explains that Black female farmworkers were trying to achieve traditional feminine ideals, not resist them.

To discuss research that investigated the ways in which Black female farmworkers in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Texas used fashion practices to resist traditional gender ideals.

Choice C is incorrect. The text does not evaluate a scholarly work but rather simply describes it. Furthermore, the text is focused on "agricultural and domestic"fashion, not urban fashion, as this choice suggests.

To evaluate a scholarly work that offers explanations for the impact of urban fashion ideals on Black female farmworkers in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Texas.

Choice D is the correct answer. The text provides an overview of a scholarly work discussing the fashion practices of Blackfemale farmworkers in late 19th- and early 20th-century Texas, and how these practices were influenced by both the fashion ideals of the time and the demands of farmwork.

To summarize the findings of a study that explored factors influencing a fashion practice among Black female farmworkers in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Texas.

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The choice that describes the overall structure of the text - To summarize the fi ndings of a study that explored factors influencing a fashion practice among Black female farmworkers in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Texas

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D

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