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Lesson 2 Passion for Fashion

How Fashion Items Got Their Names

Do you ____ what a jumpsuit is?

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

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

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

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

Like ____ jumpsuit, 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 ____ for everyday activities or sports.

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

So, why are they called ____

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

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

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

Before ____ leather was used for the sole of shoes.

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

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


Blue Jeans from Genoa

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

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

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

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

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

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

The cloth ____ most likely colored blue.

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

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


A Man in a Tuxedo in Tuxedo Park

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

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

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

One evening, a man showed up with a short black jacket ____ tails in Tuxedo Park.

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

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

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

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

Now ____ 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 ____ top of the foot and between the big toe and second toe.

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

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

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

The Japanese ____ them zories.

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

However, in the USA, these shoes are called ____

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

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

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

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

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



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