IELTS Listening: difficult vocabulary

My students found the following two questions difficult, mainly because of some of the vocabulary used by the speaker.

1. Joanna concentrated on women performers because

A) women are more influenced by fashion.
B) women's dress has led to more controversy.
C) women's code of dress is less strict than men's.

2. Frost's article suggests that in popular music, women's dress is affected by

A) their wish to be taken seriously.
B) their tendency to copy each other.
C) their reaction to the masculine nature of the music.

Here's a transcript of the recording:

You only had women performers in your study. Was that because male musicians are less worried about fashion?

I think a lot of the men are very much influenced by fashion, but in social terms the choices they have are more limited... they'd really upset audiences if they strayed away from quite narrow boundaries.

Frost points out that a lot of female singers and musicians in popular music tend to dress down in performances, and wear less feminine clothes, like jeans instead of skirts, and he suggests this is because otherwise they'd just be discounted as trivial.

Tasks:
Which answer would you choose for each question? Can you explain the meaning of the words that I've underlined above?

Comments

[Iqra]

1. C
2. A

Strayed away from narrow boundaries means if males cross their fine limits.

Dress down mean inappropriate dresses and discounted as trivial means they will be considered as traditional

[Dung]

C
A

[Luu]

1C
2A
strayed away from: different from
narrow boundaries: few choices
be discounted: be viewed
trivial: unimportant
That's what I understand when I read it

[ATITI]

c
a

[شهاب]

1 A
2 C

[arch1001face]

C,A
- strayed away from quite narrow boundaries = to start to think from little choices
- dress down = to dress on casual way
- discounted as trivial = seems to be unimportant

[Akter]

I have got 1 just in quick thinking, however, I do not still get the 2 one.

I want a deep and clear explanation.

[Shahab]

1)B
2)A
Note: I used ignoring wrong choices and led to correct answer, this was my method.

[Sanaz]

C
A

[Simon]

CORRECT ANSWERS FROM SIMON:

1. C
women's code of dress is less strict = the choices that men have are more limited

2. A
wish to be taken seriously = otherwise they'd be discounted as trivial

Vocabulary:
- stray away from = move / go away from
- narrow boundaries = strict limits / limited options
- dress down = dress in an informal way
- discounted = disregarded, not given consideration, ignored, judged negatively
- trivial = unimportant, not serious

[Dat]

1.C
2.A