Haute couture dictates personal ornaments

Conformists dictate the latest fashion

Individualists trendy fashion houses

B) slavishly trends slaves to fashion

Mail order bargain till cashier exchange

Refund try on fit receipt assistant

A) cash desk sales tag label off-the-peg

If you want to buy a ready-made (or we sometimes say (a) _____) jacket, first find

the jackets in the shop and look at the (b) ______ inside to see the size, material

and make. For the price, look at the price- (c)______. To see if it will (d) ______

you, you can (e) ______the jacket in front of a mirror. If necessary an (f) ______

will help you. You pay the (g) ______, who you will find at the (h) ______. He or

she will take your money, put it in the (i) ______and give you your change. Make

sure you also get a (j) ______, which you should keep and bring back to the shop

with the jacket if something is wrong with it and you want to (k) ______it or ask

for a (l) ______of your money. In clothes shops you pay the fixed price, of course.

You don't (m) ______. Or you can wait until the (n) ______, when many goods are

reduced in price. If you don't like shops, you can stay at home, look at catalogues and newspaper advertisements and do your shopping by (o) ______.

Most people like to think they are (a) ______and simply wear whatever they like. Few people will admit to being (b) ______. However we are not just talking of the expensive (c) ______ of the Paris and Milan (d) ______, which not many people can afford anyway. We are talking of fashions and (e) ______ in everyday clothes. We say that we wear jeans and sweaters because they are cheap and practical, but isn't it true that our jeans and sweaters tend to be the same as everyone else wears? Doesn't that mean that we like to be (f) ______? Of course the big chain-stores, to some extent, (g) ______what we wear, but they always offer a choice and people do, on the whole, like to wear (h) ______, which extends beyond clothes to make-up, (i) ______ (men wear earrings too, nowadays) and hair styles. It is easy to declare that we do not (j) ______follow the (k)______of fashion, but aren't we all (l) ______ at heart?

b) Match the phrase on the left (a-o) with the corresponding definition (1-15) on the right.

(a) dress down 1) smb. strongly influenced by fashion

(b) smart-casual clothes 2) wear less formal clothes

(c) dressy 3) informal, but clean and stylish

clothes

(d) skimpy 4) start a new fashion

(e) baggy 5) to become popular

(f) snazzy 6) to wear clothes intended to attract

people’s attention

(g) to be dressed to kill 7) very expensive clothes

(h) designer/ label clothes 8) have new ideas before they

are fashionable

(i) off the peg/rack or on the high street 9) modern, stylish

(j) all the rage / the height of fashion 10) close-fitting, using little material

(k) up-to-the-minute 11) very fashionable

(l) set a new trend 12) dealing with the most recent trends

(m) ahead of one’s time 13) loose

(n) to catch on 14) cheaper clothes

(o) a slave of/ to fashion 15) suitable for formal occasions

2.7. Match each of the following parts of clothing with the correct letter in the pictures below.

label heel collar lapel sole seam pocket buckle zip crease sleeve belt

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