Fashion

Intro

1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.

• obsession
• meaningless
• sets the trends
• hottest

• hipster
• essential
• coolest
• big deal

• people-watch
• check out

2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.

For some people, fashion is an obsession. For others, it’s totally meaningless. Either way, it’s interesting to see how quickly styles change, and who sets the trends. In the U.S., it’s usually the young, rich and famous who make styles famous. For example, Britney Spears has influenced millions of young girls who want to dress like her, and Ashton Kutcher almost single-handedly made trucker hats loved and hated.
Read on to learn more about some of the hottest styles in the U.S., and the people that helped make them popular.

Dialog

1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.

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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.

A few of the hottest fashions in the U.S.:
hipsters, but they recently became extremely popular with boys and girls all over the U.S.. *Ashton Kutcher, the star of two TV shows and several movies, started wearing the hats on his show Punk’d, and suddenly people everywhere were wearing them. Of course, there were also people everywhere who started to hate the hats, because there were just too many of them.
essential part of any wardrobe, but the T-shirts that are popular now are of a very specific style. They are usually a solid color, and feature printing on the front in a bright contrasting color which represents something from the past. For example, a T-shirt could feature the characters from the TV show _CHiPs, which was popular in the 1980s.