Fashion

1. Let’s talk about clothes and fashion. What clothes do you prefer to wear in different situations? Fashion is something we deal with every day. Even people, who say they don’t care what they wear, choose clothes every morning that say a lot about them and how they feel that day. What influences our choice of clothes is an interesting question. I believe that most of the people do not follow the fashion displayed on the catwalk. That kind of clothes is a product of famous high-class designers’ work; it is often very extravagant and extremely expensive. It is also not designed to be worn every day, but it is suitable for some special occasions.

However, we definitely borrow some ideas about fashion from music clips, videos, books and television. Movies also have a big impact on what people wear.

Depending on their attitude towards clothes and fashion, people can be divided in three groups: fashion slaves, spending all their money on the latest clothes even if they don’t look good in them; fashion fans, who enjoy wearing modern clothes but not obsessed by them and people who just don’t care how they look. Personally I place myself between fashion fans and people who don’t care how they look. Although I enjoy shopping very much and like to try things on, especially when I look good in them, I don’t spend much time choosing and buying clothes. And of course I do it only when I really need something new to wear, and not in order to kill time.

My style and the range of clothes that I have are defined by the activities I engage in. Studies occupy most of my time and therefore most of the clothes that I have corresponds with the dress code, registered in our school. According to the dress code, a pupil is not allowed to wear certain items of clothing to school. For example, boys are supposed to wear ties and business suits, and nobody is allowed to wear jeans. Girls’ clothes are not supposed to be skin-tight, too short and too open. All of the shirts are supposed to have collars. Clothes also can’t be too bright.

2. Do you follow the latest fashion trends? Why (not)? Of course, I try to follow it, but it’s usually rather difficult to buy fashionable clothes in our small town, so I need to go to Minsk to buy something.

3. What questions can you ask a shop assistant in a big shop? What is the price of this item? Have you got another colour or size of this dress? Is it fashionable this season or is already out of fashion?

4. What would you advise your friend who wants to buy some new clothes? I would advise to buy comfortable clothes, not expensive but fashionable at the same time.

5. They say that young people pay a lot of attention to their style and want to be fashionable. What do you think about it? Some of them have very little free time to pay a lot of attention to fashion, but those who have, they try to be stylish, to buy and wear trendous clothes every day and for every situation. I am not against of such their behavior and desire to be fashionable.