Fashion (时尚) not only in Clothes
For most people, the word "fashion" means "clothes". But people may ask the question, " What1 are in fashion? " And they use the adjective "fashionable" in the same way: "She was wearing a 2 coat. " "His shirt was really a fashionable color. "
But of course there are fashions 3 many things, not only in clothes. There are fashions in holidays, in restaurants, in films and books. There are 4 fashions in school subjects, jobs…and in languages. Fashions 5 as time goes. 6 you look at pictures of people or things from the past, you will see that fashions have always changed. An English house of 1750 was different 7 one of 1650. A fashionable man in 1780 looked very different from his grandson in 1850.
Today fashions change very quickly. We hear about things 8 more quickly than in the past. Newspapers, radios, telephones and televisions send information from one country 9 another in a few hours. New fashions mean that people will 10 new things, so you see there is money in fashion.
