Vocabulary extension. Exercise 9. Minitalks Discuss factors influencing clothing

Exercise 9. MINITALKS

1. Discuss factors influencing clothing.
2. Uniformity and originality in dress.
3. Changes in fashion during the past 40 years.
4. Fashion travels fast.
5. Describe your wardrobe.
6. Young people's attitude to clothing.

clothes: the thing you wear, such as trousers, shirts and dresses.

e.g. I need to go home to get some clean clothes.

Since I went on my diet I’ve been able to get into clothes that I haven’t worn for ages.

The new teacher is very peculiar. His clothes make him look like an eccentric inventor or something.

clothing: what people wear, used especially when you are talking about clothes in general and not about a particular piece of clothing.

e.g. Employers should provide suitable protective clothing for their workers.

In the poorest countries many people do not have adequate food, clothing or housing.

Heavier, looser clothing of the type is favoured in Arab countries.

something to wear: an informal expression meaning clothes that you can wear, especially clothes that are suitable for a particular event or place.

e.g. I must buy something to wear at Julie’s wedding.

She said she is not coming with us because she hasn’t got anything to wear.

piece / article / item of clothing: a single piece of a person’s clothing.

e.g. There were various articles of clothing on the bed.

Mark each piece of clothing with the child’s name.

Each item of clothing had to be washed separately.

garment: a word used especially by people who make or sell clothes meaning a single piece of clothing.

e.g. The price of each garment depends on the amount of material in it and the time that it took to make.

Only two garments may be taken into the changing room.

Monks wear a special garment, called a habit.

wardrobe: a word used especially by people who write about fashion, meaning all the clothes that you own.

e.g. Enter our simple fashion quiz and win a whole new wardrobe.

Their entire wardrobe seems to consist of jeans, T-shirts and sneakers.

By adding a few bright buttons or belts to your old clothes you can have a new summer wardrobe for very little outlay.

evening / casual / sports / children’s wear: a word used especially by people who make or sell clothes, meaning the clothes worn for a particular occasion or activity or by a particular group of people.

e.g. Every spring new beach wear comes into the shops.

You will find a nice range of silk ties in the menswear department on the fourth floor.

I know a shop that specializes in evening wear.

apparel: an American word used in the clothing business meaning the clothes sold in a particular department of a large store.

e.g. Give me an hour and I’ll meet you in Ladies’ Apparel.

We’d like to draw your attention to the sale of men’s apparel on the second floor.

outfit: clothes that are worn together as a set, especially when the colors have been carefully chosen so that they match.

e.g. Michelle was wearing her new outfit, a smart black and red coat with shoes to mach.

Pop singers sometimes wear the strangest outfits on the stage.

The doll comes with a whole range of outfits that you can dress her in.

costume: a set of clothes typical of a particular place or historical period, especially those worn by actors.

e.g. She used to work for a theatre company, designing and making costumes.

The tourist guides at the castle all wear medieval costume.

A group of Hungarian folk dancers came on stage, all wearing beautiful national costume.

uniform: a special set of clothes worn by all the members of a particular group or profession such as soldiers, nurses, or police; an American word meaning the set of clothes that a particular team wears in sport.

e.g. The uniform consists of a grey jacket and trousers or skirt, black shoes and a black cap.

The young women all looked very neat and tidy in their nurses’ uniforms.

When I was a child I used to hate wearing school uniform.

A man in uniform entered the building.

The distinctive uniform of the New-York Yankees is white with fine blue stripes.

The boys’ uniforms were filthy, but they had had a good game.

uniformed: a uniformed policeman = a policeman wearing a uniform.

kit: a British word meaning a set of clothes that someone wears for sport.

e.g. After the game he put his dirty kit into a plastic bag.

She keeps her squash kit at the office and plays at lunchtime.

We had to take our gym kit to school that day.

gear: an informal word meaning the set of clothes that are worn for a sport activity.

e.g. He has spent a lot of money on his new skiing gear.

Now that I’ve got all the gear, I’m ready to come out riding with you.

cast-offs / castoffs: clothes that you no longer wear and have given to someone else, especially someone who cannot afford to buy new clothes.

e.g. The two sisters often wore each other’s cast-offs as they grew older.

Our mother kept a box of old castoffs and we spend hours dressing up, pretending to be princesses and pirates.

She felt sorry for us and gave us presents of cast-off clothes, some of them hardly worn.

hand-me-downs: clothes that are given to a younger child in a family when their older brother or sister has grown too big for them or stopped wearing them.

e.g. The youngest child in the family usually gets all the hand-me-downs.

All my life I had to wear my brother’s hand-me-downs so I spent my first pay cheque on a brand new suit.

Diego wore a hand-me-down jacket, still too big for him.

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