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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 arms and ____

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

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

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

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


Sneak Up in Sneakers

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

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

____ why are they called sneakers?

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

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

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

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

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

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


Blue Jeans from Genoa

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

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

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

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

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

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

The cloth was most likely colored ____

French was widely spoken in Europe at that time, so the cloth was called ____ de Gênes” (the 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 ____ is required, like for the opera, dinner parties, or awards shows.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Now men’s formal ____ is the tuxedo.

____ it ironic that the tuxedo was not originally considered very formal, but now it is the 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 top of the foot ____ between the big toe and second toe.

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

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

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

The ____ call them zories.

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

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

Just ____ around in a 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 sound.

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

Whatever origins ____ 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 ____ interesting name origins as those introduced here?



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