Reading Comprehension 1 (Well Read) Chapter 7
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People wear clothes for protection, attraction, emotional expression, and identification. Fashion comes from many influences including music, movies, television, and famous people. Throughout history, fashion has been important for self-expression and communication. Royals and wealthy elites would set trends that average people would emulate. Fashions reflect the climate and attitudes of their time period.
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- 1. Visual Aids by Laurette P. Simmons Ph.D. and LeRoy F. Simmons Ph.D.
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- 6. Style Interview: Fashion Designer :Khun Lee by Paul Vargas 1 Khun Lee is a Thai fashion designer. Her fashions are popular around the world. Fashion writer Paul Vargas met her and asked her a few questions. 2 PV: Today, I am talking with the Thai fashion designer Khun Lee. Lee is the designer for Senada Theory fashions. Khun, how do you describe your style? KL: Well, Paul, I like to describe my fashion this way: Exciting and hip (modern and youthful). PV: You mix traditional styles with modern styles, right? KL: Right. We combine traditional, ethnic Thai styles with modern, cutting-edge, European styles. We also use vintage styles, for example, European and Thai styles from the past. 4 PV: Can you give me an example? KL: Sure. We might use a traditional Thai ceramics design in a fabric pattern. Or antique(very old) Thai cloth in a dress.
- 7. 5 PV: Tell me more about how you work. KL: We use batik, embroidery, and block printing. These are traditional Thai textile(cloth) designs. We also use a very special Thai silk. 6 PV: Now, who are your customers? KL: Our customers are usually women between the ages of 20 and 40. They like fashion, and they are creative and original. 7 PV: Tell me a little about your background. KL: Well, my background wasnt originally in fashion. My academic background(educational background; studies) is in biochemical science. But my hobby was always clothing design. 8 PV: How did you get started? KL: I started sewing wedding dresses. At the same time, I started collecting vintage clothing from the United States, France, and Thailand. 9 PV: When did you open your first store? KL: I opened my first Senada Theory store in the Siam Centre in 2002. We now have a second store in Gaysorn 10 PV: I know youre a very busy person. What else do you do? KL: Yes, Im also the secretary of the Bangkok Fashion promote Thai fashion, to advertise Thai fashion around the world. 11 PV: Can people buy your fashions outside of Thailand? KL: Sure. You can find my fashions in top design stores from London to Milan, and from Tokyo to Singapore.
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- 15. Fashion from the Past: The 80s Look 1 l I e all notice this: Fashions seem to match ten-year periods, or decades. In fact, people often use a decade to describe a certain style. For example, when we hear 50s styles, we think of skinny neckties and hats for men and full skirts and saddle shoes for women. When we hear 60s styles, we think of the hippy look: blue jeans and flower designs. The 70s might make us think of platform shoes and tight pants. What about the 80s? Lets take a trip back to the 1980s and look at 80s styles. 2 Heres what young people in the United States and the United Kingdom wore in the 1980s: For women it was tapered jeans, jackets with shoulder pads, and short skirts. For men, it was skinny ties (again!). Bright colors were important for both men and women. 3 80s Girls Curly hairstyles were in1 for women and girls. If an 80s woman had naturally curly hair, great! If not, she went to the hairdresser and got a permanent, a chemical process to make her hair curly. Brown, navy, and all black were out; instead, bright colors were in. Girls and women wore brightly colored sweatshirts with the collar and sleeves cut off. The movie Flashdance inspired this look.With their sweatshirts, girls and women wore tapered blue jeans or short skirts. This look also included jackets with shoulder pads, high-heeled shoes, skinny belts, and cheap jewelry such as plastic hoop earrings. 80s girls who were not shy copied Madonnas daring Boy-Toy look: lace gloves, large hair bows, faux (never real!) pearls. To complete the look, they wore blue eye shadow makeupon their eyes.
- 16. 5 80s Guys The TV show Miami Vice is a good example of 80s fashion for guys. The 80s guy wore light- colored jacketsfor example, pink or whitewith the sleeves rolled up and loafers without socks. The cleans haved look was outinstead, many guys had a 5 oclock shadow. Skinny neckties, especially in leather, completed this look. 6 The 80s guy also wore parachute pants. Hiphop artist MC Hammer helped to make parachute pants popular. If they just wanted to be casual, 80s guys wore their 80s concert T-shirt2 with their holey jeans3. Black Converse All-StarsR or VansR sneakers were their favorite casual shoes. 7 Fashion can be a mirror of the times. By looking at 80s fashion, we can see that it was a fun and colorful decade in the U.S. and the U.K.
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- 29. Clothing Costs, Then and Now Year, Annual apparel expenditures, Percent of total expenditures No how much people spent on clothing in certain years SB page 124
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- 34. What Is Fashion We all deal with fashion every day. Some people might say they do not care about clothes. But even these people make fashion decisions. We all choose clothes every morning. Our choices say who we are and how we feel that day. Why Do We Wear Clothes? There are many important reasons for wearing clothes. Protection: Clothes protect us from cold, rain, and snow. For example, mountain climbers wear high-tech outerwear to stay warm and avoid frostbite. Attraction: Clothes make us attractive to other people. The shape and color of clothes can improve a persons appearance. For example, high-heeled shoes can make a woman look taller, tight shirts can show off a mans muscles, and black makes most people look thinner. Emotional expression: Our clothes show our feelings. We dress up when were happy and dress down when were sad. For example, in many cultures, people wear dark colors to a funeral. Identification and tradition: Our clothes can show the group that we belong to. For example, judges wear robes in court and people in the military wear uniforms. Many Orthodox Jewish men wear hats and dark suits and many Islamic women cover their heads. Clothes also indicate special occasions and ceremonies. For example, brides in many cultures wear long white dresses.
- 35. 7 Where Does Fashion Come From? We constantly get new fashion ideas from music, books, and television. Movies also have a big impact on fashion. For example, the Ray- BanR sunglass company sold more sunglasses after people saw the movie Men In Black (1997). Sometimes a fashion style is worldwide. Back in the 1950s, teenagers everywhere dressed like the rock n roll star, Elvis Presley. 8 Musicians and movie stars have always influenced fashion, but so have political figures and royalty such as presidents, their spouses, kings, queens, and princesses. For example, Diana, the Princess of Wales, was an important influence on fashion in the 1980s and 1990s. Many women copied her hairstyle and clothes. 9 Popular fashions are almost impossible to trace. For example, no one knows how the short skirts and boots that English teenagers wore in the 1960s got to Paris. No one knows how blue jeans became so popular in the U.S., or how hiphop styles went from the streets of the Bronx to fashion shows in London and Milan. 10 Fashion and High Fashion Fashion is big business. More people are involved in the buying, selling, and making of clothing than any other business in the world. Every day, millions of workers design, sew, glue, dye, and transport clothing to stores.
- 36. 11 High fashion is defined by the people who have power in the fashion world. Wealthy people, buyers for major department stores, and editors and writers for fashion magazines are all part o f Haute Couture (High Fashion in French). Some of these expensive and often artistic fashions may become the fashion for the rest of the world. However, most of these fashions never move beyond fashion shows and magazines 12 Fashion in History People have always read fashion magazines to see the latest styles. In 18th century France, for example, average dressmakers studied sketches of the fashions of the royal court. These drawings showed the latest styles. The dressmakers copied them for their customers. The famous French king Louis XIV said: Fashion is a mirror. Louis himself was famous for his style. He wore extravagant1 laces and velvets. 13 Even in the ancient world, fashion was important. Primitive people wore necklaces made from shells. They decorated their clothing with beads and animal teeth. Ancient warriors2 wore hats with animal bones on them. Rich people in ancient Egypt wore wigs, jewelry, and makeup. 14 James Laver, a costume historian3, said: The dress of any given period is exactly suited to4 the actual climate of the time5. When we see tight jeans, we think the 1980s. Baggy jeans say the 1990s and low-cut jeans say the 2000s. 15 In fact, as the climate of the times changes, so do the fashions. The key word in fashion is change.
- 37. why people wear clothes and where fashion come from People wear clothes for many reasons and T S G G S MI SB page 129 many things influence clothing choices
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- 39. to stay warm, to be attractive, to express emotion, to show the group they belong to music, books, and television, musicians, movie stars, political figures and royalty necklaces made from shells, clothing decorated with beads and animal teeth, hats with animal bones on them, wigs, jewelry, and makeup in ancient Eqypt the style of a small group of men & woman SB page 129
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