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Describe a person who you think wears unusual clothes.
You should say who this person is, how you knew this person, what his or her clothes are like and explain why you think his or her clothes are unusual.
Lori, give us your story.
well my mom is a pretty snappy dresser i think even if some of her choices are a bit out of the ordinary at times when it comes to how i know her well it's my mother so obviously i've known her my whole life she's a former fashion editor for a few magazines in my country though i don't think most of them or any of them in fact are in circulation anymore uh and people in that line of work tend to be a bit more experimental with their dress sense don't they in terms of what she wears oh wow um well the sky really is the limit in this case it's everything from fake fur to real fur to things encrusted
with rhinestones like something dolly parton would wear um and that goes for everything from the shirts jackets she wears right down to the shoes and what she She accessorizes with.
I think she was wearing a denim and fake fur waistcoat over this black shirt with black and white pinstripe trousers the other day.
So that should give you an idea of what it's like.
Even in her 60s, she's still experimenting with things like that and pushing boundaries of fashion choices.
I'm hoping, based on what I just said, it should be clear why I think her choices are not exactly run -of -the -mill.
But if I have to go into more detail about it, I would say that these things aren't things which are, well, first of all, born in my country by the vast majority of people.
And secondly, they aren't exactly par for the course for the average person in her late 60s.
Despite this, she pulls it off flawlessly, and I think she looks pretty good in them.
Of course, I would say that.
I'm her son. If she didn't dress like that, it would be hard to imagine what she might be like to be honest um she would be almost a completely different person with the venmo debit card you can venmo everything your favorite band's merch you can venmo this or their next show you can venmo that visit venmo .me slash debit to learn more the venmo mastercard is issued by the bank or bank and a pursuant to license by mastercard international incorporated card may be used everywhere mastercard is accepted venmo purchase Hey, it's Ryan Reynolds here for Mint Mobile.
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you wear unusual unusual clothes?
Yeah, my clothes are stylish, right?
But it's not nothing extraordinary.
I always say like unusual for who?
Because I don't think a lot of my friends have the same sense of style.
So you could just say they're actually not ordinary for me because my friends do not dress in a similar way.
Or most of the people in my life or my country don't do this.
Yeah, and like, what do we call unusual clothes?
Like, what is unusual clothes?
Seriously. Well, this is it.
Who decides this kind of thing, eh?
Yeah, but usually if we mean unusual clothes, then we mean some bright colours or something that stands out from the crowd, like you notice this person.
And of course you're going to explain why it's unusual anyway, so it doesn't need to be anything too drastic.
Rory told us about his mother.
And his mother is a pretty snappy dresser.
Snappy is informal and is usually used about clothes, modern and stylish.
So, she's a snappy dresser.
She's modern and stylish.
And you can say that, like, I'm going to talk about my mom or my friend, Bob, who is a pretty snappy dresser.
Some of her choices, some of her close choices Are a bit out of the ordinary Unusual or out of the ordinary, extraordinary Like how do you know this person?
Well, it's my mum So I've known her all my life Oh, I should say though This is something interesting that I noticed With a couple of students that I teach And maybe it's a bigger problem We don't say for a whole life or for the whole life it's always the pronoun and whole life so if you talk about yourself then it's my whole life for all the time you were alive or if it's about someone else's life her whole life his whole life and many people their whole lives as well and if we're talking about your friend you can say I've known him for five years I've known him since childhood she's a former
fashion editor for a few magazines oh so your mother is connected to fashion and such people tends to be a bit more experimental in the dress sense so my friend is experimental so he is experimenting with his clothes choices and his or she's experimental with their their dress sense how they dress in terms of what she wears the sky is the limit nice so we signal to the examiner that now i'm going to be talking about what she wears like as for what she wears in terms of what she wears the sky is the limit and this is a nice idiom meaning meaning that there are no limits.
Oh yeah, it's an idiom.
The sky is the limit.
An idiom. There is no limit.
Although here I said the sky really is the limit, just to emphasize that there are no limits here.
She wears everything from fake fur, like not real fur from animals, but fake fur.
Fur is this like fluff from animals.
to things encrusted with RINOS RINESTONES yeah RINESTONES have you never heard of these before no RINESTONES they're like fake diamonds really and Dolly Parton is a famous singer who is notorious for having things like that sure RINESTONES fake diamonds so if I wear a dress encrusted with diamonds my dress has diamonds on it so the diamonds are encrusted in the dress if i wear fake diamonds so then like tops dresses encrusted with rhinestones and you can say that she wears bright shirts jackets unusual shoes and accessories rory's mum has beautiful bags and if you go to our youtube channel and i
think the episode is called bags it is yes because i i have like no bags at all i have one rucksack and i've had it for the last 10 years whereas my mum i think must buy new bags every other week she used to maybe not now and if you watch the episodes you will see some of rory's mum's bags which are really unusual and really well interesting her bags are of different shapes and colors so yeah like you can say she was or he has unusual accessories like bags or jewelry where's the rudder raise the sails raise the sails captain unidentified ship is approaching over roger wait is that an enterprise
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So, trousers with lines on them, like white lines.
So, she's always pushing boundaries of fashion choices.
Like, to push boundaries means to experiment, to wear different things and to go beyond what is established or expected.
Like, usually people People wear these clothes, but I push boundaries and I'm going to wear a shirt as a dress.
Oh, wow. I remember that advert.
Oh, I think it's I think it's for Dior.
And basically a woman wakes up and she I think she can't find something that works with her shirt.
So she just wears the long shirt with a belt and it works really well.
It's a great look. But I can't remember the company it was advertising for.
All I remember is it was extremely controversial at the time but it got a lot of attention, which is what it's for.
I think her choices are not exactly run -of -the -mill.
So we're talking about unusual clothes, that's why her clothes are not run -of -the -mill.
If something is run -of -the -mill, it's ordinary, not special or exciting.
So her choices, her clothes choices are not ordinary, they're not run -of -the -mill.
Well, most people in my country don't wear such things or clothes.
But my mother or my friend pulls it off flawlessly.
So, that's a nice phrase of verb to use.
Pull something off.
Pull something off to be successful in something.
So, for example, she wears unusual clothes like pink jeans with, I don't know, bright yellow shirt.
and she can pull it off flawlessly.
Flawlessly? Like really well, stylishly.
With no problems. With no problems, yeah.
Because it's stylish, it suits her, it's unusual.
So flawlessly, without any mistakes or imperfections.
Her style is flawless.
So she can pull it off flawlessly, she wears unusual clothes, and she can pull it off flawlessly.
So she's successful at it.
And she looks pretty good in them.
Them, dear listener, because clothes.
So she wears unusual clothes.
She looks pretty good in them.
Clothes are stylish.
Please remember it.
What helped you to organize this answer, Rory?
Well, I kind of covered just about everything in the first line again.
so I just gave a little bit of an overview and then I went into a bit more detail I should point out if you are talking about someone that you know or someone a close friend of yours or a relative and you give them compliments then you could just always say of course I would say this I'm their friend or I'm their daughter or their son so that's a phrase that can be used for just about anything anything here." But apart from those things for organization, I just followed the task.
I talked about who the person was.
My mum, how I know her.
Well she's my mother.
She brought me into the world.
Thank you mother. And then lots of detail about what she wears because of course there are some very unusual choices.
And then for the explanation, well again I didn't think the explanation was necessary.
I think it was just obvious from the description.
but I said if I have to give one then it's because this is very unusual both for my country and for someone of that age you should choose two or three specific words for unusual clothes and you can google them like unusual clothes 2025 or for example go to pinterest .com put in unusual clothes and choose two or three phrases for example I'm looking at some vintage Vintage dresses Vintage handmade dresses And you can say that Vintage is like very old And you can say that My friend Bob usually wears Vintage suits Or vintage jackets Rory, hello, are you still with me?
I am, yes We're discussing clothes Your favourite topic I know, this is why I'm just waiting for it to end now Because I don't know about any of these things And so it's all just washing over me Thank you very much for listening, and we'll get back to you in our next episode about clothes and style.
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Describe a person who you think wears unusual clothes.
You should say who this person is, how you knew this person, what his or her clothes are like, and explain why you think his or her clothes are unusual.
Well, my mum is a pretty snappy dresser, I think, even if some of her choices are a bit out of the ordinary at times.
When it comes to how I know her, well, it's my mother, so obviously I've known her my whole life.
She's a former fashion editor for a few magazines in my country, though I don't think most of them, or any of them, in fact, are in circulation anymore.
and more. And people in that line of work tend to be a bit more experimental with their dress sense, don't they?
In terms of what she wears, oh well, the sky really is the limit in this case.
It's everything from fake fur to real fur to things encrusted with rhinestones like something Dolly Parton would wear.
And that goes for everything from the shirts and jackets she wears right down to the shoes and what she she accessorizes with.
I think she was wearing a denim and fake fur waistcoat over this black shirt with black and white pinstripe trousers the other day.
So that should give you an idea what it's like.
Even in her 60s, she's still experimenting with things like that and pushing boundaries of fashion choices.
I'm hoping, based on what I just said, it should be clear why I think her choices are not exactly run -of -the -mill.
But if I have to go into more detail about it, I would say that these things aren't things which are, well, first of all, worn in my country by the vast majority of people.
And secondly, they aren't exactly par for the course for the average person in her late 60s.
Despite this, she pulls it off flawlessly, and I think she looks pretty good in them.
Of course, I would say that, I'm her son.
If she didn't dress like that, it would be hard to imagine what she might be like, to be honest. um she would be almost a completely different person
