Question =

American and European societies in the Victorian era of the mid-1800s were beginning to undergo dramatic changes in fashion, with middle and upper class women taking to long, trailing skirts.

However, this interest waned in the late 1800s when a certain group of people in the society raised strong objection to these outfits –inspired by the research publication of a German who came up with four defining postulates in his field, and also won the Nobel Prize in 1905. As a result, the clothing eventually grew unpopular and was shunned by the public.

Who was this person? Why was he objecting to these outfits?

Answer=

Robert Koch.

Proved tuberculosis was contagious and being spread by skirts that swept germs from the streets.