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Answer:
Fashion was less expensive and more beautiful when women enjoyed wearing a few well-made dresses regularly rather than striving to wear a great variety of clothes (Wilde).
Explanation:
The question asked you to paraphrase the wild text.
Paraphrasing means formulating someone else’s ideas in your own words.
This is answer captures the idea in the Wilde text without using the same wording. It also includes a citation at the end.
A. is a direct quote and should be in quotations
C. Is diffrent than the text. Wilde says older dresses (not modern) were "decorated with beautiful designs and worked with exquisite embroidery"
D. draws the opposite conclusion: "It is better for women to have many dresses that they only wear once"
The sentence that correctly paraphrases and cites the excerpt is: B. Fashion was less expensive and more beautiful when women enjoyed wearing a few well-made dresses regularly rather than striving to wear a great variety of clothes (Wilde).
What is a Summary?
A summary is a condensed way of stating the main points in a text.
The main point of the statement above is that in times past when women wore their dresses regularly, fashion was not as expensive as it is today when women do not want to repeat clothes.
Option B accurately summarizes this excerpt.
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