FASHION
Do this questionnaire to decide whether you are fashion conscious or you are a fashion
victim.
1. How much time do you spend
7. When was the last time you bought
in front of the mirror in the morning?
something to wear?
a) More than five minutes.
a) Less than three days ago.
b) Less than five minutes.
b) More than three days but less than
c) I prefer not to look in the mirror
six months ago.
in the morning.
c) I never buy clothes. My mum/
2. Why do you like your clothes?
dad/wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend
a) Because they are comfortable.
buys them for me.
b) Because they say something
8. Why did you buy it?
about the sort of person I am.
a) Because I liked it.
c) I don’t like my clothes.
b) Because it’s fashionable.
3. What do you usually wear?
c) Because I need it.
a) Jeans and a T-shirt.
9.What do other people think about your
b) Whatever’s in fashion.
clothes?
c) What I feel like wearing.
a) They think they are smart.
4. When you meet someone for the
b) They think they are strange.
first time, what do you notice first?
c) They never notice my clothes.
a) Their eyes and hands.
10.What do you refuse to wear?
b) Their shoes.
a) Clothes that are in fashion.
c) Their character.
b) The clothes my mum/dad/wife/
5. You see the pair of trousers
husband/boyfriend/girlfriend buys
you want.They are beautiful –
for me.
but you haven’t got much money.
c) Clothes that are not in fashion.
What do you do?
11. When you read a newspaper, do you
a) I forget about them.
turn to the fashion pages?
b) I don’t buy them but I dream
a) Yes, I always read the fashion pages.
about them.
b) I sometimes look at the pictures.
c) I buy them and I don’t eat for
c) What fashion pages?
a week.
12. How would you describe your style
6. The colour in fashion this year
of clothes?
doesn’t suit you. What do you do?
a) Fashionable.
a) I wear it anyway – it’s in fashion.
b) Not fashionable but “me”.
b) I don’t wear it.
c) Style? What’s that?
c) I don’t care about what’s in
fashion.
1. a) 3
b) 2
c) 1
2. a) 2
b) 3
c) 1
3. a) 1
b) 3
c) 2
4. a) 2
b) 3
c) 1
5. a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
6. a) 3
b) 2
c) 1
7. a) 3
b) 2
c) 1
8. a) 2
b) 3
c) 1
9. a) 2
b) 3
c) 1
10. a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
11. a) 3
b) 2
c) 1
12. a) 3
b) 2
c) 1
What it means:
You scored 12 to 19: You probably don’t know what this questionnaire is about.
You think that there are more important things in life than fashion, but perhaps you are
a bit lazy, too. How about going shopping yourself – your mother/
father/wife/husband/girlfriend/boyfriend has got enough to do!
You scored 20 to 28: Clothes are not the most important thing in your life, but
you know what suits you. You have a very personal style but it is always the same. Why
don’t you take some risks and try a different style for a change? You are too serious –
fashion can be fun!
You scored 29 to 36: You are a fashion victim! Do your friends ever walk on the
other side of the road when they go out with you? You know a lot about fashion, but you
need to choose the clothes that suit you. There are more important things in life than
clothes – try speaking to people and you will be surprised to find that they are nice, even
if they are wearing the wrong shoes.
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to be in fashion/vogue
to go/be out of fashion
to come into fashion
to follow the fashion
to be ahead of fashion
to be in the front rank of fashion
the latest fashion
to be all the fashion
to be all the rage
to set a fashion
to be dressed in the height of fashion
fashionable dresser/fashion-monger
a woman of fashion
fashioner/couturier/fashion designer
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trend
to set a new trend
trendy
chic
brand-new
up-to-the-minute
with-it
ultra-fashionable
avant-garde
subtle
snazzy
tawdry
dressy
to be dressed to kill
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to be up-to-date
to be out-of-date
style
to dress in style/with great style
stylish
to imitate smb’s style
fashion/vogue magazine
fancy jacket/dress
well-dressed
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to go for bright colours
to look drained and washed out
to make oneself stand out of the crowd
to have a flair (for)
to bring one’s eyes out
to look wonderful in red/green etc
to wear smth to a party
to turn glossy
 Reading
A. Read the article and comment on the following:
 What is fashion?
 What is men’s attitude towards women’s fashion?
 What is the peculiarity of men’s fashion?
Fashion
Fashion is an entirely unnecessary and yet delightful detail of human life. No one
could contend that a person who did not follow the fashion was lacking in any great
mental or moral quality; yet to be in the fashion has given joy in age after age, not only
to the women who are thus up-to-date in their costume, but to the men who behold
them.
As a rule, men’s attitude towards women’s fashion is one of an amused tolerance.
They pretend that they are unable to detect the nice distinctions between the latest model
from Paris and a dress that is hopelessly out-of-date. But they are in reality just as eager
to conform to the popular idea of what is and what is not worn.
But men’s fashions change slowly, and men, unlike women, like to be the last to
leave an old fashion rather than the first to embrace a new. They have no desire either,
that their womenfolk should be in the very front rank of fashion. It would make them
embarrassed to be seen in public with a woman who was wearing something which
caused every eye to be turned upon her. But they like their wives to be dressed as most
other women are dressed.
Fashion is an arbitrary mistress to whom most women are slaves, but though her
mandates are often unreasonable and not seldom absurd, she is followed willingly, for
the reward she offers is that sense of adventure and variety which is the spice of life.
B. Explain the meaning of the uderlined phrases. Give the Ukrainian equivalents to
these phrases. Use them in sentences of your own.