Question 1 (1 point)
In their "Discussion of Women's Political Clubs and Their Suppression", Fabre d'Eglantine argued that making women wear the tricolor cockade was a problem because....
It was damaging their expensive silk dresses, and this was causing a severe drop in the silk trade in France
Women are asking for the red cap of liberty, and soon they might expect to wear weapons like the men. They want to participate in politics and society equally with men.
Women are mostly just in the home anyway so no one will see their cockades. It is a waste of their precious resources to waste fabric and supplies on women.
Conservatives and royalists complained that they should have the freedom to express their antirevolutionary sentiments through wearing clothing.