Hi everyone, I am Niharika and thanks for clicking. well in today's lesson we are gonna
look at phrasal verbs related to clothing.
Do you love clothes?Well I totally love clothes
, I am a girl, so yes I do love clothes. Well In English , I have observed that many people
especially when they have to to talk about clothing the only two verbs that they end
up using are wear and remove. I will wear my red shirt. I removed my red shirt. let
me wear my best shoes, so it's just wear and remove, that's about it , but when you are
learning English wouldn't it be better to learn new words? or new phrases that you can
use related to clothing, well that's what we are gonna learn in today's lesson. We are
gonna look at some phrasal verbs that would help you to talk about wearing clothes and
removing them. So let's get started , the first one is 'Dress up' now dress up it means
to wear the best dress or to just dress up the best, now probably you have a date tonight
, Hey! you have a date tonight, and you really wanna dress up very well, you want to wear
your best dress or if you are a guy you really wanna look good, you wanna wear your best
blue shirt that you have. So, rather than saying - I am gonna wear my blue shirt or
I am gonna wear a nice dress, use the phrasal verb dress up. I am gonna dress up really
well for the date tonight, okay. Dress up means to wear your best , okay, to wear the
best clothing. The next one 'Have on', have one again means to wear a piece of clothing,
so rather than saying, hey! we are wearing the same clothes or the same colour, use the
phrase have on , well how would you use that? Oh! my God we have the same shirt on or we
have the same colour shirt on, okay, which means that we are wearing the same piece of
clothing, alright. The next one 'Slip on' , slip on, well this is a phrasal verb that
you can use to wear a piece of clothing very easy, you know there are piece of clothings
that you use it or you can wear it very easily, like a piece of dress, okay. It's very easy
to slip into a piece of dress. So you can use the phrasal verb slip on to wear something
easily, like your flip flops, so this can be for clothes, this can also be for accessories
and it can be also used for shoes, so as I mentioned wearing flip flops, it's very easy
to slip on flip flops, right? You just, probably you are at the beach - Okay hang on, let me
slip on my flip flops, because you can wear flip flops very easily, so rather than saying
- i am gonna wear my flip flops, you can say - I am gonna slip on my flip flops and then
let's go to the beach. Then the next one - 'Try on' well try on is used especially when you
go shopping. women you can definitely use this, because women love shopping , now when
you go to a store and probably you like something, maybe some shoes or probably a piece of dress
or maybe a nice tank top and before you buy it, before you put in a lot of money to buy
that dress, why don't you try it on. So, how would you do that? well you go to a trial
room and see if it fits you well, see if it suits you , so before you buy something , you
try on, so try on can be used to wear something to see if it fits you or to see if it suits
you. So, I am gonna try on this black shirt, maybe I love this black shirt and I wanna
see how it fits me and if it looks good on me, so I am gonna try on. The next one 'kick
off' , now kick off this phrasal verb is specifically used for shoes, okay and it means to remove
your shoes quickly, so like, Oh! my God, last night I was so exhausted, I kicked off my
shoes and I was off to bed. So, which means I quickly removed my shoes , so rather than
saying I quickly removed my shoes, well I am using the phrasal verb , I kicked off my
shoes, which means that I quickly removed my shoes, but remember this phrasal verb can
be only used specifically for shoes. The next one 'Throw on', now throw on is pretty similar
to kick off but throw on is used for clothes, but not to remove your clothes but to wear
them, so to wear something quickly, like in the morning yo are too busy getting ready,
you have to rush to work , so I just throw on a dress and I leave for work. So throw
on is to put an item of clothing quickly, so to wear something not to remove, remember
that. The next one ' Wrap up' , wrap up you know at times when you step out and you realize
it's a little chilli , you thought that it was not cold but yes it is a little chilli
and you are just wearing a tank top and you feel a little cold, so you wrap up yourself
with a piece of clothing, right? So to wrap up is to cover yourself, you go to a movie
theatre and you start feeling a little cold because of the air conditioner , you start
feeling a little cold and then you are like - I wish I could have got something to wrap
up myself , okay so it means that I wish I would have got a piece of clothing to cover
myself up. And then the last one 'Put on' , put on is used to wear something, again
as I mentioned in the start that all the English speakers, many of the English speakers only
end up using wear and remove when it comes to talking about clothing, but you know then
there is another phrasal verb that you can use when you tend to say that I am gonna wear
a red shirt, so rather than saying - I am gonna wear a red shirt, I am gonna put on
a red shirt. I am gonna put on these black shoes. I am gonna put on my earrings, okay.
So it actually means that you gonna wear them, okay. So these are the phrasal verbs related
to clothing , start using them if you are not, avoid using the verbs wear and remove
not everything can be worn , not everything can be removed , use this trust me you would
be able to speak fluently, I will be back with a new lesson, till then you take care
and have a great day.