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Fashion in Clothes Put each of the following words or phrases in its correct place in the passage. conformists dictate dictates fashion houses haute couture individualists personal ornaments slaves to fashion slavishly the latest fashion trends trendy

Most people like to think they are (a) _____ and simply wear whatever they like. Few people will admit to being (b) _____ of the expensive (c) _____. However we are not just talking of the Paris and Milan (d) _____, which not many people can afford anyway. We are talking of fashions and (e) _____in everyday clothes. We say that we wear jeans and sweaters because they are cheap and practical, but isn't it true that our jeans and sweaters tend to be the same as everyone else wears? Doesn't that mean that we like to be (f) _____? Of course the big chainstores, to some extent, (g) _____what we wear, but they always offer a choice and people do, on the whole, like to wear (h) _____, which extends beyond clothes to make-up, (i) _____ (men wear earrings too, nowadays) and hair styles. It is easy to declare that we do not (j) _____follow the (k) _____of fashion, but aren't we all (l) _____at heart?

Megoldsok: a) individualists b) slaves to fashion c) haute couture d) fashion houses e) trends f) trendy g)dictate h) the latest fashion i) personal ornaments j) slavishly k) dictates l) conformists