Read and learn the following words and word combinations from the text. Bolero – коротка куртка с рукавами или без них;

Bend – изгиб;

Bolero – коротка куртка с рукавами или без них;

Sweet-pea – душистый горошек;

Daring – смелый, отважный;

Hemline – кромка, край одежды;

Cloche – дамская шляпа «колокол»;

Abandon – покидать;

Bias – уклон;

Newfangled –новомодный;

Brassiere – бюстгальтер;

Calf – икра (ноги);

Puff up – надувать, надуть;

Rack – вешалка;

Rayon – искусственный шелк, вискоза;

Decent – приличный, порядочный.

Answer the following questions.

1. What was a fashionable shape by 1902?

2. Who introduced the "oriental look"?

3. What was the "oriental look"?

4. Why did women save money?

5. Who was interested in fashion?

6. What did women wear in Britain during World War I?

7. What was the shock of the 1920s?

8. How did the fashionable women look in the 1920s?

9. What was the fashionable age?

10. How did dresses differ during a day in the mid-1930s?

11. What was striking by 1940?

12. What was the new center of fashion?

Complete the sentences with right propositions.

1. I like clothes ___ bright colors.

2. In 1920s women preferred to wear skirts just ___ the knees.

3. During World War I women ___ many walks ___ life worked ___ factories, ___ farms, ___ the civil service.

4. The “twenties” shape was emphasized ___ a short, boyish haircut.

5. The collection of this designer was inspired ___ Russian national costume.

6. The demand ___ fashionable dresses was so great that factories increased their issue.

7. She likes skirts, cut ___ the diagonal or bias.

Suggest the English for the following.

Слои общества, вдохновлять, готовая одежда, стрижка, изгиб, качество, стильный, спрос на, кромка, отказаться, вискоза, развевающийся, доступный, ткань, упасть.

Choose the right verb in the right form.

1. The ready-to-wear industries in Europe and the United States ___ designs from Paris and that new center of fashion, Hollywood.	To replace To introduce
2. The demand for fashion was great and the international garment industries ___ to make fashionable clothing even cheaper and more widely available.	To copy To imagine
3. In the 1920s the fashionable age ___ from 40 to 25.	To flare
4. Tailors ___ skirts on the di­agonal or bias from light fabrics.	To try
5. Paul Poiret, the new Paris couturier ____ his "oriental look".	To cut
6. In the 1930s hemlines ___ greatly during a day.	To refuse
7. In Britain, during World War I, women ____ absent men in weapons factories, on farms, in the civil service, and as firemen and milkmen.	To drop To want
8. At the beginning of the 20^th century women saved money, because they ___ to buy a fashionable dress.	To vary

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