fashion LESSON-6
go online participate in a conversation answer questions learn question words learn fashion vocabulary In this lesson you will :
Is fashion important to us ?
What kinds of clothes do you wear to school? When do you shop? Where do you like to shop/ Which is your favorite store? How much do you spend on clothes? conversation
Its time to renew our wardrobe! We got a budget for our birthday and we are going to spend it on new clothes!!! Let us make a list of the clothes we are going to buy. Hi Guys!
My shopping list
pants shirt undershirt underwear bra socks skirt scarf jacket belt
Lets have a look at a famous fashion site and find the items that we would like to buy.
Does fashion influence your life? Is the latest fashion important to you? Is it important for you to buy your clothes according to whats in at the moment? Questionnaire Very important =3Fairly important=2Not important at all=1
Do you wear jewelry? What kind of jewelry do you wear? How often do you wear jewelry? Jewelry
Match the picture to the item: Brooch Necklace Bracelet Watch Earring Exercise :
What colors do you think look good on you? (Name at least three colors) Do you wear the same colors now that you wore two years ago? What color did you wear yesterday?
What kind of shoes do you like to wear? What influences your choice when you buy shoes ? shoes
What makes a shoe healthy to wear? Shoes and health design heels width material weight
Fashion is always changing and each decade has a distinct trend. Looking at peoples clothing can help us learn about the society in which they live. Life and fashion
Dressing up over the years Ancient Greece 12th century
Who or what decides what is going to be a fashion trend in our world? The powers that influence the fashion industry The powers that influence the fashion industry
The power that influences the fashion industry is the fashion manufacturers who want to maximize their profits. They do this by reducing the cost of production and increasing the sales. The power that influences the fashion industry is the fashion manufacturers who want to maximize their profits. They do this by reducing the cost of production and increasing the sales.
NIKE shoe production in the Third World THE FACTS : Chinese workers make $1.75 a day. Vietnamese workers make $l.60 a day. Philip Knight, CEO of Nike is the sixth richest man in America. NIKE pays famous people like Michael Jordan millions of dollars for advertising. You pay over $100 for shoes that cost less than five dollars to make.
Fashion manufacturers maximize their profits by : determining the price of clothes. sewing the clothes in countries where labor is cheap. using cheap materials. Fashion manufacturers maximize their profits by : determining the price of clothes. sewing the clothes in countries where labor is cheap. using cheap materials. Maximizing profits:
Increasing sales : Fashion manufacturers change fashion each season in order to make us buy more and more clothes. They use celebrities and different means of advertising in the media to get us to buy more clothes. Fashion manufacturers change fashion each season in order to make us buy more and more clothes. They use celebrities and different means of advertising in the media to get us to buy more clothes.
People like to copy the way celebrities live and especially the way they dress. Celebrities:
Promoting Fashion Through Media Hidden Means Open Means
Another component that influences the fashion industry is technology. Technology enables us to develop new kinds of materials and fabrics- to make our clothes more comfortable, more sensitive to our body temperature, lighter, etc. Technology:
We wrote a shopping list. We learned new vocabulary. We went shopping on- line. We learned question words. We discussed different aspects of fashion. In this lesson: