For most people, the word "fashion" means "clothes". People may ask the question, "What 1 are in fashion?" And they use the adjective（形容词） "fashionable" in the same way. "She was wearing a 2 coat." "His shirt was really in 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, languages, and so on. Fashions 5 as time goes. If you look at pictures of people or things from the past, you will see that fashions have 6 been changing. 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 much more quickly than in the 8 . Internet, newspapers, radios, telephones and televisions send information from one country 9 another in a few hours even minutes. New fashions mean that people will 10 new things, so you see there is real money in fashion.
