Intro
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When your clothes wear out, you get new ones, right? Well, why do they have to be new? Used clothes can be an inexpensive way to get things that used to belong to someone else but are new to you.
Plus, the only way to find some cool styles is by wearing vintage clothes from different times in fashion history. If you want to look like Michael Jackson, what better way than finding clothes from the ‘80s that Michael might have actually worn?
Jason wears a lot of vintage clothing. Listen to him discuss it with Ella.
Dialog
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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Jason: I find myself wearing vintage everything.
Ella: Really?
Jason: Yeah.
Ella: What is it about vintage that you like so much?
Jason: I just think that the cuts and the materials look better to me. Like the…I don’t know, like a nice vintage leather jacket is better-looking than anything I can find in a store normally, these days, to me.
Ella: I don’t know, with vintage clothes, I feel like they’re pretty expensive.
Jason: They are. They’re getting more expensive. There was a time where you could just show up at a thrift store and there’d be all these cool clothes that apparently no one knew were cool and just gave to this thrift store. And now there’s a difference between used and vintage. Like you just give away your clothes that are used, but if you have something that represents a trend from the past, like you can sell that, and then people will pay a lot of money for it. But I think new clothes are expensive too. Do you ever wear anything vintage?
Ella: Yeah, occasionally. I like vintage dresses. But a lot of the stuff from the 80s and stuff, I’m just not very interested in. It’s a style that I just wish everyone would forget.
Jason: That’s the thing though with vintage, it’s like everything worth forgetting is forgotten, and only the items worth remembering are saved.
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Discussion
Jason loves wearing vintage clothes. He thinks clothes from the past look better and were made better than clothes you can find in the stores today. Vintage clothes are all Jason wants to wear.
Ella wears vintage clothes sometimes, but not very often. She thinks vintage clothes are too expensive for clothes that aren’t new. Although she likes some fashions from the past, she prefers modern-looking clothes. She thinks a lot of the trends from the past should just be forgotten.
There is a difference between vintage clothes and used clothes. Clothes that are considered vintage are usually more desirable. Unfortunately, that also means they’re more expensive!
Do you like to wear vintage clothes, or do you prefer new clothes? Are vintage clothes expensive or inexpensive in your country?
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