VOCABULARY ON FASHION AND SHOPPING
Nov 25, 2021 / Vocabulary / 5:40 pm
- Clothes horse: someone who really likes to buy nice clothes
- Well put together: describes someone who looks good and who has made effort to do so
- Pick up: buy
- Bargain price: a discounted price
- Be up on the latest trends: to be informed of what is fashionable
- Social media feed: the updated list of new content available on various social media platforms
- In fashion: fashionable
- Replicate: to copy
- Looks: appearance
- Lower priced: inexpensive, cheap
- A fraction of the cost: a small part of the total cost
- A (great) eye for something: able to notice or make correct judgments about something
- Clothes rack: rail where clothes are hung for display
- Shoe display: place where shoes are shown
- Level of attention: the amount of attention someone pays to something
- Luxury goods: things that are very expensive to buy but are not considered necessities
- High-end designers: people who design products sold at very high prices
- Out of my price range: describes something that is too expensive for someone to buy
- Incomparable: cannot be compared because it is so good
- Over the top: extreme, excessive, exaggerated
- Avant garde: describes music, art, etc, that are unconventional or experimental
- Ambience: the atmosphere of a location
- Unparalleled: exceptional; in a category of its own because of its excellence
- Customer service: the assistance given to customers of a product or service
- Top-notch: high quality
- Blow money on something: spend large amounts of money
- “it” item: something very fashionable
- Place pressure on: to try to influence or persuade
- Stay current: to be up to date
- Spoiled for choice: to have a lot of options available to you
- High street: the main street where shops, banks and businesses are located.
- Unfathomable: unimaginable
- e-shops: stores that do business online
- click of a button: on a computer or device, something that requires very little effort
- at your doorstep: at your home or near where you live
- superimposed: when something is placed over something else so that the image of both items is clear
- frame: the size and shape of someone’s body
- digital imagery: the collection of pixels on a screen that create an image
- brick and mortar stores: a physical shop as opposed to an online shop
- counterparts: someone who does the same job as someone else somewhere else
