In the chapter "<em>The wheels of change</em>," the quotation develops the idea of the new clothing options for the competing women. Thus, option A is correct.
The question is incomplete as the excerpt is missing: Not surprisingly, Rinehart wasn’t afraid to speak her mind. In 1894, she testified at the annual convention of the Colorado State Medical Society about the benefits of the divided skirt for female cyclists. “It is almost impossible for a lady to ride any distance . . . with the ordinary skirt,” she told the mostly male audience. “You get too much of the dress on one side of the wheel, and you do not get enough of the dress on the other side.” Rinehart’s success brought her a number of product endorsements, including Stearns bicycles, Samson tires, and the Rinehart Skirt, a divided skirt designed in her honor by a seamstress in Denver.
<h3>What is a central idea?</h3>
A central idea is the main element on which the story or the text is based and unifies the story elements together to make the topic matter more understandable.
In the excerpt, quotation marks are used to describe the clothes that the woman cyclists wear while riding the bicycle. It suggests clothing options for the competing woman.
Therefore, option A. new clothing styles for the woman is the correct option.
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