- •Clothes and fashion
- •Vocabulary
- •Exercise 4. Fill in the blanks with prepositions if it’s necessary
- •Remember
- •Exercise 9. Minitalks
- •Vocabulary extension
- •Packing for a holiday
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Work in groups. Which clothes would you recommend for the following people?
- •2. Are the following true (never/sometimes/usually/always)? Give reasons and examples.
- •3. Report your conclusions to the class.
- •Vocabulary extension
- •Susan Cheever fashions of the times
- •Vocabulary
- •Exercise 24. Answer the following questions
- •Exercise 26. Find out whether these statements are true or false:
- •Exercise 29. Translate the following sentences from Russian into English:
- •Vocabulary extension
- •Vocabulary
- •Exercise 37. Insert the prepositions if it is necessary
- •Vocabulary
- •Exercise 42. Translate the following sentences from English into Russian:
- •Exercise 43. Translate the following sentences from Russian into English:
- •T-shirts and tuxedos
- •Exercise 50. Composition
- •Dress in china
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Exercise 52. Answer the following questions:
- •Exercise 53. Find Russian equivalents to the following:
- •Exercise 54. Find English equivalents to the following:
- •Exercise 55. Translate into English:
- •Exercise 56. Render the following text into English:
- •Dressing up in kuwait, sweden and india
- •Indian clothing
- •Traditional vietnamese male attire
- •* * *
- •О национальном платье вьетнамских женщин
- •Traditional korean clothes
- •* * *
- •* * * Hanbok: Korean Tradtional Dress
- •Supplementary texts
- •By Veronique Vienne
- •Trigere. The legendary fashion designer reflects on her past and its impact on elegance today.
- •The uniform
- •Eloquence and bad taste
- •All at sea: the sailor suit
- •Mother's darling: the fauntleroy suit
- •Shorts and knickers
- •The decline of juvenile costume
- •The great designer rip-off
- •Fray chic in the city
- •Vocabulary General part
- •Textiles
- •Men’s clothes
- •Women’s clothes
- •Headgear (Headwear)
- •Footwear
- •Underwear
- •Accessories
- •Expressions
Exercise 42. Translate the following sentences from English into Russian:
1. He wore the same baggy suit with shiny trousers for a week at a time. 2. His shoes and trouser cuffs were muddy. 3. He wore stained and shapeless grey flannel trousers, a broad leather belt round his narrow waist, and an open-necked blue shirt that echoed his bright eyes. 4. Biff took off his shirt and examined the collar to see if it was clean enough to be worn again. 5. He had a funny little jacket and ridiculous trousers striped vertically blue and white. 6. Roy dressed with exquisite care the next morning. He put on his most fashionable suit, a silk shirt, a pair of suede shoes. 7. Johnny badly needed a new jacket, his old one was out at the elbows. 8. The cuffs of his sleeves were frayed to the lining and the dark suit was badly fitted. 9. She unbuttoned her coat and folded it across her lap. 10. Michael unbuttoned his coat and let it flap around him in the mild wind. 11, Mary wore a black dinner dress with pearls around her neck.12. Shirley was wearing red, and there was an orchid pinned to the waist of her dress. 13. The sisters almost always were dressed in white from crown to toe.
1. He undid the top button of his jacket. 2. One corner of his shirt was showing from under his jacket, which was not buttoned up to the neck. 3. He wore a raincoat that had a wool liner buttoned into it. 4. She zipped up her leather jacket and turned away. 5. He wore a white shirt open at the throat. A yellow silk tie was knotted carelessly about his neck. 6. He was always dressed in conservative dark suits, starched white shirts, black shoes, and a maroon bow tie. He had dozens of bow ties in various widths and lengths, but every one of them was of some shade of maroon. 7. His necktie was pulled down away from his collar, and he had eased the collar by unbuttoning it. 8. He advanced towards a tall military-looking man wearing orange suede shoes. 9. On his skinny legs he wore black stockings, and his shoes were of special kind, being queerly shaped, laced up over ankles, and newly cleaned and polished with wax. 10. Betty was wearing black velvet slacks, a colorful tight sweater, and flat-heeled white shoes. 11. Dixie took a lovely handkerchief from her sleeve and gently patted her nose. He noticed the whiff of scent, which came from the handkerchief. 12. He arranged his handkerchief in his breast pocket.
1. She wore a pair of very smart black laced shoes. 2. In the closet he noticed a pair of battered shoes on the floor. It was his best pair. The soles were badly worn, the uppers scuffed deep into the leather, the strings broken and knotted. 3. There were slippers with pompons on the toes. 4. Then, going to the mirror, she set the little lemon scarf she wore in the evenings into pretty artistic folds. 5. She was wearing a head square of white silk tied under her chin and the free corners flipped as she moved. 6. Miriam wore the same plum velvet coat and now she had also a beret to match. 7. Smiling, he lifted his hat, which was new and wide-brimmed… It was toast colored with a red and white band around it and was slightly too large for him. 8. She was dressed in the height of style, her shoulders padded, her hat tilted over one eye. 9. Her hood obscured her face, it was hot in the museum; he threw the hood back. 10. She had a blue frock with a brooch in the shape of a butterfly. 11. She wore her loose brown raincoat and her head was covered with a matching hood. 12. That’s a very nice blazer you are wearing, and it goes well with your new pullover. 13. She took off he silk trouser suit and put on a warm dressing gown.