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Hello hello dear listener and welcome into our IELTS speaking part 3.
Glows! Beautiful. Rory, is it your favorite topic – clothes?
Uhhhh, no, because I always wear the same clothes so I have very little to say on this.
Let's see how it goes.
Why do some people care so much about their clothing?
Why does anyone care about anything?
They'll have assigned some meaning to it for a variety of reasons.
The most obvious in my mind is just personal presentation.
Clothes are some of the first things we see and think about when we look at a person so presenting ourselves in the light we want to be seen in makes them a big part of that.
It could be something like going on a date where being well -dressed sends a message about suitability as a partner or a business meeting where appearing professional might be very important.
What are the differences between cheap and expensive clothes?
C - Other than the prices?
I don't know. Probably the materials and quality?
Generally speaking, I suppose the higher the price the better the quality.
Or the perception of quality since it could just easily be linked to the brand name, probably.
S - Which is better, do you think?
Cheap clothes or expensive clothes?
C - Surely that depends on the kind of person you are.
If you have the money to burn then buy expensive clothes, but if you are a poorer person, or someone who's not terribly well -off, then less expensive options will be more economically viable.
Why do many people prefer to buy rather expensive clothes?
Well, we already talked about the issue of quality and its perception.
So they might think they're getting a good deal out of paying more since it's less likely to fall to pieces quickly, it could also be a cultural thing.
Displasive wealth can convey respect to people, like if someone has invited you to a party and you want to show you care about them by dressing in a way that shows respect.
In the same context it could also be a display of social status, like a way to convey that you're better than or equal to others since you can afford better, or similar things.
Do you think people would use clothing to show their identity?
Oh absolutely! There's a huge variety of religious garments out there, from things like headscarves to turbans, and I think all the way down to special kinds of shoes that get worn inside of religious sites, especially ones that are religiously significant.
And that can show who you are in terms of, well, obviously religious affiliation, but also in terms of how pious you are as a person.
So if you go the whole nine yards and make an effort to do absolutely everything correctly, then people might think that you're extremely good at following the religion and that's the message you want to send to them.
Do you think young people know more about fashion and are better at dressing up than elderly people?
Well, they might be more tuned into shifts in the latest trend since younger people, especially teens tend to be hypersocial, so they have access to more information about this.
But the latest thing is just one part of fashion.
Some trends and ways of doing things can also be preserved over time and this is probably where older people's greater knowledge base might give them a different fashion sense.
I don't think it necessarily makes it better.
Do most people in your country prefer to buy clothes online or at the street markets?
I have no idea what the statistics for that look like.
However, if I were to make an educated guess, I'd say they're more likely to do it online just because it's more accessible than street markets which are a lot less common than they used to be or at least so it seems. Why do they choose online options?
Like I said it's more convenient.
People do a lot more these days so they have less time to spend on single activities like going shopping, especially at street markets.
So if you can get everything at the touch of a button it makes sense that you would opt for this so you can spend time doing things which are a bit more fun.
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care about anything you know like why do people care so much about their clothes like why does anyone care about anything you know people have assigned some meaning to the clothing to the clothes assign meaning to something Give meaning to something or find meaning in something clothes are the first things we see Careful, dear listener clothes are Clothing is the first thing we see but clothes are The first things we see when we look at a person So we present ourselves with our clothes So being well -dressed sends a message to people about your personality.
Yeah, the kind of person you are, your character.
Maybe it's not the only thing.
Cheap and expensive clothes, and again, cheap clothes are better or are worse than expensive clothes.
The materials and the quality is different and you can say that generally the higher the price the better the quality, okay?
So, this is a sentence, there are no verbs here, you just use the articles.
The higher the price, the better the quality.
Or, like, generally speaking.
People who have money to burn prefer expensive clothes.
So people with lots of money.
They're rich. They're super wealthy.
So they have money to burn Nice idiom, so they have so much money.
They can burn the money.
Well, yes Isn't it?
Yeah, they're not literally burning money.
Yeah, or you can say the people who are well off So rich people wealthy or well off people or people who are not well off opt for cheap clothes so People who are poor, but usually like poor people, we don't usually say poor people.
People who are less well off, people who don't have the money.
People with low incomes usually prefer cheap clothes because cheap clothes are economically viable.
Well, they're affordable.
Yeah, people can spend the money on them.
People prefer to buy expensive clothes, or people opt for expensive clothes, so they choose expensive clothes, and this is because of the issue of quality.
The higher the price, the better the quality, but not always.
People might think that if they buy expensive clothes, these clothes are less likely to fall to pieces quickly or fall apart fall apart fall to pieces it just yeah you wear them and then they as you wear them over time they lose their quality or they start to degrade because everything degrades as you use it it could be a cultural thing so displays of wealth interesting so in some countries Because wearing expensive clothes means that people display how much money they have, and by wearing expensive clothes people can convey respect to people.
They can show they respect them?
Okay, so I wear expensive clothes, and I show that I respect you.
Well, you might wear clothes which are, I don't know what's the best choice.
You might wear clothes which are fancy, and therefore more expensive.
But the idea is that by doing that, you don't dress like you don't care about yourself, and so because you care about how you look in the presence of the other person, then this shows respect.
It's like you don't go to a wedding, generally speaking, wearing jeans and trainers and a t -shirt that you paid $5 for.
Unless you do. Do you do this Maria?
Yeah, no. So, it's not about the money, it's what the money or the spending of the money shows to people, it shows that you care about how you look for their specialty.
But sometimes cheap clothes are beautiful and it's clean, good quality and these clothes suit you, so, you know.
That's true. That's why I said it could be and can convey respect.
Because in other contexts that might not necessarily be true.
Although I hear in some areas of India, not all, but some, people actually will wear clothes which are made of gold in order to convey some kind of message about themselves as well.
Wow. That sounds very uncomfortable, but it's not my style.
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So, expensive clothes could be a display of social statues.
Like for example bags or different accessories, like a watch or a Louis Vuitton bag or a Hermes bag.
So it's a display of social statues, Hermes.
You know, these bags for like three million dollars.
Crazy. And clothing could show people's identity.
Who you are as a person?
Yeah like your culture, the country you come from, these days actually culturally unique patterns are quite popular and fashionable.
For example in Africa they have unique patterns, some embroidery materials, so people wear them to show their identity, to show where they're from.
And all over the world people just started wearing traditional clothes or some parts of their traditional clothes.
It's actually quite...
it's getting more and more fashionable now.
So, religious garments.
Garment is another word that means clothes, dear listener.
So, we have an outfit, attire, clothing, and a garment.
See one word, a piece of clothing.
So, religious garments, religious clothes, like headscarves or turbans.
Very common questions are about young people versus the elderly or elderly people.
And young people or younger people might be more tuned into fashion.
Yeah, maybe, maybe not.
they might know more about fashion trends and they might be more tuned into shifts in the latest trends the latest trends like the freshest trends not the last the latest shifts like changes especially teenagers like teens tends to be hypersocial so they're super social they talk to each other they talk to other people and they tend to follow the latest fashion trends.
They have access to more information about fashion.
Well, they might. Or rather they tend to.
Very important not to over generalize.
So we avoid this by saying what people tend to do or what they might do.
Yeah, the same as in Eyal's essays where cautious, careful.
We speak like politicians, right?
Not just that young people always know things about the recent fashion trends.
No, they might know.
Perhaps they know they are more likely to have more information on this than the elderly.
And older people have knowledge about the fashion trends, which never change, for example.
Some fashion trends are timeless.
Timeless, exactly, like a small black dress.
What fashion trends do you think are timeless?
This is interesting.
Yeah, like a small black dress, pearls, for example.
Pearls. Pearls have always been awesome, and now even men wear pearls.
We can buy clothes or clothing online or at the street markets or in shops.
So we opt for online shopping like we choose online shopping or offline shopping and here Rory used his favorite strategy like when the examiner asks you do most people do many people like we don't know how many people so you say like seriously how many people like I have I don't have the statistics alright so you can say but use it once yeah listen you use it once.
So I have no what the statistics for that look like.
Statistics look like.
Statistics are confusing, okay?
And then I said if I were to make an educated guess.
Yeah! So if I were, if you asked me, yeah an imaginary situation, so if I were to make or if I made an educated guess or you can say if I had to guess I'd say that.
So pretty much that I don't know but if I imagined I'd say that see if I were to make an educated guess to sound like an educated native speaker by night I'd say that more people are likely to buy clothes online because then you give reason it's more accessible it's more convenient to buy everything online these days but actually I don't see how it's convenient to buy clothes online like what about your size I don't know like well it's convenient from the perspective of access and time saved it's not convenient from the perspective of trying on the clothes and seeing what they look like yeah that's
why people we combine online shopping with offline you try it on offline and then you buy it online!
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Need gas? You can Why does some people care so much about their clothing?
Why does anyone care about anything?
thing, they'll have assigned some meaning to it for a variety of reasons.
The most obvious in my mind is just personal presentation, clothes are some of the first things we see and think about when we look at a person, so presenting ourselves in the light we want to be seen in makes them a big part of that.
It could be something like going on a date where being well -dressed sends a message about suitability as a partner or business meeting where appearing professional might be very important.
What are the differences between cheap and expensive clothes?
Other than the prices, I don't know, probably the materials and quality?
Generally speaking, I suppose the higher the price the better the quality.
Or the perception of quality since it could just as easily be linked to the brand name probably.
And which is better, do you think?
Cheap clothes or expensive clothes?
Oh, surely that depends on the kind of person you are.
If you have the money to burn, then buy expensive clothes.
But if you are a poor person or someone who's not terribly well off, then less expensive options will be more economically viable.
Why do many people prefer to buy rather expensive clothes?
Well we already talked about the issue of quality and its perception, um, so they might think they're getting a good deal out of paying more since it's less likely to fall to pieces quickly.
It could also be a cultural thing, displays of wealth can convey respect to people, like if someone has invited you to a party and you want to show you care about them by dressing in a way that shows respect.
In the same context it could also be a display of social status, Like a way to convey that you are better than or equal to others since you can afford better or similar things.
Do you think people would use clothing to show their identity?
Oh, absolutely. There's a huge variety of religious garments out there, from things like headscarves to turbans, and I think all the way down to special kinds of shoes that get worn inside of religious sites, especially ones that are religiously significant.
And that can show who you are in terms of, well, obviously religious affiliation, but also in terms of how pious you are as a person.
So if you go the whole nine yards and make an effort to do absolutely everything correctly, then people might think that you're extremely good at following the religion.
And that's the message you want to send to them.
Do you think young people know more about fashion and are better at dressing up than elderly people?
Well they might be more tuned into shifts in the latest trend, since younger people, especially teens, tend to be hyper -social, so they have access to more information about this.
But the latest thing is one part of fashion.
Some trends and ways of doing things can also be preserved over time, and this is probably where older people's greater knowledge base might give them a different fashion sense.
I don't think it necessarily makes it better.
Do most people in your country prefer to buy clothes online or at the street markets?
I have no idea what the statistics for that look like, however, if I were to make an educated guess I'd say they're more likely to do it online just because it's more accessible than street markets, which are a lot less common than they used to be, or at least so it seems. And why do they choose online options?
Just like I said, it's more convenient.
People do a lot more these days, so they have less time to spend on single activities like going shopping.
Especially at street markets.
So if you can get everything at the touch of a button, it makes sense that you would opt for this.
So you can spend time doing things which are a bit more fun.
