IELTS Vocabulary 5

Fashion in Clothes

Put each of the following words or phrases in its correct place in the passage:

 

 

 

slavishly – trends – slaves to fashion – individualists – trendy – fashion houses

conformists – dictate – the latest fashion – haute couture – dictates – personal ornaments

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 …..(1)….. at heart?

The answers are:

(a) individualists

(b) slaves to fashion

(c) haute couture

(d) fashion houses

(e) trends

(f) trendy

(g) dictate

(h) the latest fashion

(i) personal ornaments

(j) slavishly

(k) dictates

(l) conformists