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Lesson 2 Passion for Fashion

How Fashion Items Got Their Names

Do you know what a ____ is?

____ is usually a single item that covers your whole body, even your arms and legs.

____ is easy and quick to put on and to take off.

As the name indicates, the jumpsuit ____ as clothing for jumping from planes.

Later, designers transformed this functional design into luxurious women’s fashion items seen in fashion shows around the ____

Like the ____ there are other fashion items with interesting stories about how they got their names.


Sneak Up in Sneakers

You have probably owned a pair of sneakers for everyday ____ or sports.

They are a type of athletic shoe designed specifically to be worn for physical activities and ____

So, why ____ they called sneakers?

The name “sneakers” is derived from the term “to ____ up.”

Due to the ____ that sneakers’ soles are mostly made of rubber, they make little noise when people walk.

This allows people who are wearing them to sneak ____ on others.

Before rubber, leather was used for the ____ of shoes.

Traditional leather shoes make a lot of noise, and it is easier to hear the ____ wearing them.

However, with sneakers, you can ____ sneak up on your friends and surprise them.


Blue Jeans from Genoa

____ they are loose fit or slim fit, most of you have at least one pair of blue jeans.

They were named “jeans” because they ____ made of jean, a sort of tough cotton cloth.

The word jean is ____ modification of Gênes, the French name of the Italian city of Genoa.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, Genoa was a major ____ for trade.

Sailing ____ from Genoa traded their goods throughout Europe, particularly in England and France.

One of the items ____ made Genoa famous was a strong cotton cloth, ideally suited to making tough work clothes.

The cloth was ____ likely colored blue.

French was widely spoken in Europe at that time, so the cloth was called “bleu de Gênes” ____ blue of Genoa).

This is how the pants made with “bleu de Gênes” became ____ as blue jeans in English.


A Man in a Tuxedo in Tuxedo Park

People wear tuxedos when a formal dress code is required, like for the opera, dinner parties, or awards ____

The tuxedo likely got its name from ____ Park, one of the first gated communities in New York.

In the late 19th century, men usually wore jackets with long ____ that reached their knees on formal occasions.

One evening, a man showed up with a short black jacket without tails ____ Tuxedo Park.

The male guests who stayed there were fascinated by the new jacket and ____ to wear the same style.

Later, more people asked their tailors to make them a ____ “like the one worn in Tuxedo Park.”

At first, this style of jacket was considered less formal than one with ____ tails.

____ more and more men wore the shorter style, it eventually replaced the longer version.

____ men’s formal wear is the tuxedo.

Isn’t it ironic that the tuxedo was not originally considered very formal, but now it is ____ most formal clothing men wear?


Flip-flops, Flip-flop

On beaches and at pools, everyone seems to wear simple shoes with a band across the ____ of the foot and between the big toe and second toe.

Amazingly, they ____ one of the oldest shoes in history.

Ancient ____ paintings show they were worn around 4,000 B.C.

____ to the fact that they have such a long history, they have different names all around the world.

The ____ call them zories.

New Zealanders call them jandals, which is a ____ form of “Japanese sandals.”

However, in the USA, these shoes ____ called “flip-flops.”

Just walk around in a pair of them, and you ____ easily guess why they got this name.

____ rubber soles hit the bottom of your feet as you walk, making a flip-flop, flip-flop sound.

The sound became ____ name of the shoes, flip-flops.

Whatever origins these fashion items have, they are being worn by more and more people in various places around the ____

Why don’t you look for other fashion items that have as interesting name ____ as those introduced here?



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