The dress of sans-culottes was a sign of opposition to whom?

Correct answer: Aristocrats

The correct answer is B, aristocrats. Sans-culottes, whose name literally referred to people who did not wear the knee-breeches associated with the nobility, adopted long trousers, a short jacket and a red cap. Their clothing deliberately rejected aristocratic fashion and expressed support for equality and popular political action during the French Revolution. They were mainly urban labouring people and small shopkeepers, but the question asks whom their dress opposed, not who they were socially. Peasants, workers and volunteers are therefore unsuitable because they describe social groups or participants rather than the privileged fashion and class symbol being rejected.