Fashion in Clothes

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?

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& Reading

Read the text and discuss various trends in music and fashion. Answer the following questions:

· What style do Teddy Boys represent?

· What was peculiar about their clothes?

· What does ‘Teddy’ mean?

· What new trend in youth culture appeared in the mid-sixties?

· What were the Mods’ clothes and most important possessions?

· Who were the Mod’s greatest enemies? What was their life style?

· Who are hippies? What does this name come from?

· What are skinheads famous for?

· What does the word ‘Punk’ derive from? What was it used for?

· What are the characteristics of the music and bands that emerged in the 1980s?