UNIT6 FASHION

Fashion ： a popular style or practice, especially in clothing, footwear, accessories, makeup, body or furniture. a distinctive and often habitual trend in the style in which a person dresses. the prevailing styles in behavior and the newest creations of textile designers. costume is regularly linked to the term "fashion", the use of the former has been relegated to special senses like fancy dress or masquerade wear, while "fashion" generally means clothing, including the study of it.

Language Points ： Inverted structure led by “so” We failed to catch the train, so did they. She bought bread and butter at the supermarket, so did her husband. The sentence means musicians and others cultural icons as well as political figures and royalty have influenced people’s dressing styles.

Dress down: Dress in a modest way, e.g. in grey colors, simple styles Dress up: Dress in bright colors Midriff: middle outer portion of the front of the human body, extending roughly from just below the breast to the waistline. Bare midriffs: the types of clothes that show the midriff portion of the body

KEY TO READING COMPREHENSION 1. This sentence means that movies have a big impact on what people wear. 2. Newspapers and magazines often report on what they wear. 3. People’s acceptance or rejection to a certain type of fashion reveals their reactions to the society. 4. Because clothes reveal what groups people are in. 5. According to the passage, uniforms can be used to abolish class and race distinctions. 6. High fashion is the style of a small group of men and women with a certain taste and authority in the fashion world.

7. Plugged-in individuals refer to those who are engaged in the fashion business. 8. Fashion changes to satisfy customers’ desire to experience new and interesting things. 9. Yes. Fashions may become out-of-fashion some time, but will come back in to fashion again after a while. 10. Fashion houses, the associated fashion designers, high-status consumers including celebrities they all contribute to the change of fashion.

KEY TO PARAPHRASE 1. We are frequently exposed to ideas about new fashion trends from music, video, books and television. 2. Fashion belongs basically to aesthetics, moreover, it has a character of innovation with delicate details that make people pleased to expend money on. 3. Many styles can help to increase physical attraction of the wearers, that is, they make people feel the mutual attractions to each other. 4. Some of these expensive and often artistic fashions may win more acceptance and enjoy popularity in the larger majority. 5. Most are still confined to the show stage and will not become prevailing in the majority.

6. It is almost impossible to trace the origins of the popular fashions. 7. No one can tell how the short skirts and boots worn by teenagers in England in 1960 became so successfully accepted as to appear on the show stage, or how blue jeans became so popular in the U.S., or how hip-hop style which originated from the streets of the Bronx came to be displayed at the high fashion shows in London and Milan. 8. Once certain fashions are identified by the public, they begin to change. 9. Meanwhile, there exists an equal or even larger number of fashions that are claimed to be out of date. 10. In the past, the new discoveries and lesser-known parts of the world were always filled with a sense of the exotic, which provides an impetus to change fashions.

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