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and today we're going to talk about how
to talk about your personal style your
personal style in this lesson i'm going
to talk about phrases you can use to
describe appearance i'm going to talk
about a lot of vocabulary words you can
use to describe your fashion or just an
aesthetic like a look that you like and
i'm going to talk about slang words for
describing fashion and appearance we
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lesson so today's lesson is going to
start with some common phrases we use to
describe appearance so let's get into it
the first expression i want to talk
about is to look nice to look nice this
is a very general expression you can use
for men and for women to look nice in an
example sentence you look nice you look
nice so someone is dressed very well for
a fancy party or someone has a new
hairstyle that's really great you can
say you look nice you look nice
so you do need to keep in mind a point
to remember
this look
does need to change if your subject is
he she or it so for example he
looks
nice he looks nice so you want to talk
about your brother or your father or uh
your boyfriend or your husband or some
male in your life he looks nice same
thing for she as well she looks nice she
looks nice so this is a general and
polite friendly way to make a compliment
about someone's appearance you look nice
he looks nice he looks nice
okay and if you want to use someone's
name here
like eric looks nice sorry or devin
looks nice or risa looks nice same
pattern use this s form here so eric
looks nice
of course the opposite is doesn't look
nice like that doesn't look nice he
doesn't look nice but hopefully you can
use the positive more often so
looks nice and look nice
okay eric says i do
okay all right good this is our first
expression
let's talk now about this one here to
suit
to suit so
this is a verb so two suit is different
from suit like the name of the
clothing item like a three piece suit
this is a verb
to suit
means what's going on to suit means to
match
to suit means to match something so for
example that haircut really
suits
you that haircut really suits you that
means your hairstyle whatever your
haircut is matches you so in other words
your haircut looks nice on you so it
means something matches the person in
this case that haircut really suits you
so here i'm using that haircut as my
noun phrase that haircut you could say
that shirt really suits you or those
shoes
really suit you so again you need to be
careful of your conjugation with suits
if this part
your subject here is singular it it
really suits you use this s here it
suits you it suits you
if this part is plural like my example
those shoes those shoes plural really
suit you no s those shoes really suit
you so please consider
your subject and whether it's plural or
singular those shoes really suit you
that haircut really suits you okay
some of you are writing nice comments
alicia looks but make sure looks looks
nice so if the subject here is a person
use s alicia looks
nice
so please be careful of that yeah
someone caught on to you over there okay
uh let's go to the next point is to fit
to fit
some people use fit to mean the same
thing as to suit yes but for this lesson
let's look at to fit
to mean uh to match someone's body size
to match someone's body size so for
example
this is kind of a negative expression
i'm not sure
that
shirt
fits you properly i'm not sure
that shirt fits you properly so fit
refers to the size of the clothing so
for example if this shirt was super big
someone might say like um i'm not sure
meaning i don't know i'm not sure
that shirt your shirt
fits
you
properly so this means i'm not sure
that shirt is the correct size for you
i'm not sure that shirt is the correct
size for you i'm not sure that shirt
fits you properly so again
that shirt is a singular so we need to
conjugate the verb fit to fits that
shirt fits or that shirt doesn't fit you
is another way to say that so to fit
means to be the correct size for
something but some people can also use
it to mean match
match
okay
on to the next one on to the next one to
be cute so let's look at these two
together to be cute and to be sexy
what's the difference here
we tend to use
cute like if we're talking about kids
we'll say oh he's so cute or she's so
cute it has kind of this childish feel
about it in english cute sounds like
something that's very like kind of for
young kids like a cute game or a cute
dress or maybe a cute toy it has kind of
this childish feel about it
um so we can say that we think uh
someone is cute like a person we are
attracted to is cute but it has kind of
a sweet feel like a nice feel about it
like oh he's cute or i think she's cute
so we can use this to describe
attraction as well
so the difference
with like cute and sexy sexy is is kind
of more adult generally so
when we use sexy it's often when we can
see a lot of someone's skin
like we would just say like um like
swimsuit models are sexy so like uh men
or women without like a shirt or without
jeans or whatever so we can see a lot of
their skin and they're posing
like in a way to model the clothes in an
attractive way we would say that's very
sexy so something
that's more adult is usually sexy so we
use cute more for like kind of sweet
nicer things of course it's possible to
be sexy and to be cute we can use both
words to describe a person so this is
kind of the difference in feel between
sexy and cute
for example
her dress is so cute her dress is so
cute so actually here i've used cute as
an adjective this is probably
uh
the more common way that we use this
i've got this as a verb here like oh uh
her dress is so cute this is probably a
more common way that we use it but you
could use it as a verb as well too like
oh she's being cute she's being cute
meaning like she's just kind of being
nice or she's being sweet
uh here too similarly so to be sexy we
can use it in in like a as a verb as
well like wow like um
like they're being very sexy in this
photo shoot today we could use it that
way
we also use it as an adjective here so
that photo is so sexy that photo is so
sexy oops i made this look like a
question that photo is so sexy like did
you see his instagram post or did you
see her instagram post that photo was so
sexy so again it has that very grown up
like kind of adult feel about it usually
uh how do we tell a little girl she
looks nice so like if you want to
compliment like a family member or like
your neighborhood someone in your
neighborhood you could say for example
like your dress is so cute that's what i
would say to like the little kids in my
family like oh your dress is so cute or
you look very nice so that's the
expression we would use
uh nice examples everybody my girlfriend
is so sexy very good very good okay
other examples pamela on facebook hi
says i told somebody he was cute and i
felt he didn't like it maybe because
it's a little sweeter than adult could
be it could be so if you use cute with
someone and they feel like i'm an adult
they might not be happy so you kind of
have to
like try to understand their feelings a
little bit yeah for sure for sure okay
uh
all right i don't see any other
questions so let's finish up these last
two the last two are another pair they
are to be handsome and to be beautiful
so i have these handsome and beautiful
we tend to use handsome for men and
beautiful for women we tend to but
we can use them for anyone so we tend to
use handsome with like very
masculine looks so when i say masculine
i mean looks that we
historically we think about as being
looks for men so that's what we use
handsome to describe but recently
especially recently there have been lots
of interesting fashions where it's like
uh women are wearing like these um kind
of strong suits and we could say she
looks so handsome in that suit i've seen
that here and there
also beautiful although we use beautiful
usually to talk about women
we can use beautiful to talk about
anybody too like oh wow his hair is so
beautiful we can totally use it in that
way so yes although we traditionally
use handsome ferment and beautiful for
women these days we can use it with
anything it's more about a feeling and
less about like a specific gender so
it's quite flexible these days okay
so some example sentences again this is
as an adjective like he looks so
handsome in that suit he looks so
handsome in that suit so that suit looks
nice on him he looks handsome he looks
handsome
or here she looks beautiful she looks
beautiful so again i'm using these as
adjectives here adjectives
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let's take a look um someone asked if
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let's take a look then i've got this
list of vocabulary words we're going to
look at now so
this is about like
types of looks so looks that you're
interested in some of these have a
strong connection to fashion some of
these are more about a lifestyle thing
so our goal for this part is for you to
finish this sentence so when you see a
style that you like try sending this
sentence in the chat i like something
something style style so we're going to
see lots of examples i hope that you can
find one that's like your own favorite
look or your own favorite style so let's
get started the first word is vintage
vintage so we'll see a photo of this
vintage so vintage refers to these old
things
things from many years ago
like they're not new a company did not
make these things like last year to look
old these are actual old things so
you might like vintage fashion so that
means old shirts or old dresses old
shoes we
refer to this as vintage style these
things are vintage maybe you've been to
a vintage store or a vintage cafe so
this is called vintage vintage our first
one so maybe you like vintage style okay
let's continue on to the next one modern
modern
so modern modern comes from the word
like modern referring to now like a
contemporary time so modern means
something that's very very recent so for
example modern this is a modern
building a modern piece of architecture
so modern
is this style where everything feels
fresh and new
so in like modern buildings it's lots of
glass i've noticed lots of glass there
may be really big spaces like this this
is modern modern modern style okay some
people are sending examples i don't like
vintage style great great okay or i like
gothic girls someone wrote okay we'll
get to that someone else said i like
retro style very cool okay lots of good
ones
um
okay let's continue someone says i like
modern style great great so this is
modern this is an example of modern
okay leah says she loves modern eric
says i like cereals that's not a style
gosh d really okay let's continue to the
next one the next one is gothic
gothic this is a good pronunciation
point this th the th is not gossip but
gothic gothic
gothic so gothic style this is an
example of a gothic style building so
the word this style comes from
architecture so many like churches
churches are a great example from this
period in time this style with like
these kinds of uh
maybe dark feeling um
like buildings and like gargoyles and
like statues and creatures plus these
beautiful stained glass windows so this
is part of gothic style
today's fashion gothic fashion we
associate we have a connection with
gothic fashion with wearing lots of
black like you have a lot of black and
you wear like a very white makeup that's
kind of the image of gothic fashion
for many people
so there's gothic architecture and
there's also this gothic fashion kind of
this dark
sort of i guess gloomy i don't know i'm
not an expert on gothic fashion but we
use gothic to describe that does gothic
mean ancient no gothic does not mean
ancient gothic refers to this time
period of architecture or like if you
can imagine maybe like marilyn manson in
like the 1990s or so if you know that
artist marilyn manson is a good example
of kind of a gothic i guess
fashion person
okay
my friend's style is gothic says someone
good someone says i have a gothic style
building great
uh okay nice one someone says i you
teacher you like modern style i kind of
like modern yeah okay let's continue
then uh let's continue to the next one
street wear street wear so you might
hear this called street style street
style so street style this is an example
kind of one example of street style
so this refers to kind of a combination
so street wear has come from a couple
different places there's like california
surf culture in there there's like
hip-hop rap culture as well so it's kind
of this cool laid-back relaxed feel is
street like street style this can be
called street wear so you'll see like
the guy on the right in this picture has
like athletic pants on that's there's
kind of a sporty feel about these two so
we call this streetwear or street style
street style so this is quite popular as
well especially among young people is
street or streetwear
okay
examples okay good let's continue on
then to casual casual so this is an
example of very casual clothes i have
okay i have very casual clothes on today
so casual it's easy to wear it's
comfortable
for a lot of people casual just means
jeans and a t-shirt so people in the us
a lot of people in the u.s are very
casual we use this style casual
is what we use okay
the next word is business business style
or business dress so business dress is
something like this suits we're wearing
suits we're looking very professional so
this is business style
you may hear the expression business
casual business casual is like this with
a little bit of a casual feel so for
example like a suit jacket and jeans is
maybe business casual business casual
but we think of this in the us as a
business style business style
okay onward to
minimal
minimal is the next one so minimal
this the route here is like the minimum
so it's like you don't want extra stuff
you want as little as possible so very
few things minimal
people who like this style are called
minimalists minimalist i'm a minimalist
he's a minimalist
so you could say i like minimal style i
like minimal style i don't like lots of
extra stuff i want only the things i
need it's called minimal minimal
okay someone says i like the minimalist
style less is more yeah cool
okay
um i don't see anything else okay
someone says i love business
professional style cool good okay great
great
let's move on then to sophisticated
sophisticated so sophisticated refers
you have some like worldly experience
you have
this like refined feel about you so this
is an example of a kind of sophisticated
fashion she looks really cool yeah like
she has like this fash this cool fashion
sense about her she clearly understands
how to create this interesting outfit
for her personality so this is the
feeling of
sophistication she looks sophisticated
or her style is sophisticated so a
sophisticated style can be sexy it can
be cute it can be handsome so it's
refined it's like someone who has
experience and knows themselves very
well that is sophisticated sophisticated
okay onward time's running out next is
chic
chic the spelling of this
c-h-i-c chic chic we pronounce this chic
so something that is chic we usually use
chic to describe women's style to
describe ladies fashion it's something
again that's kind of elegant and like
very smart like smart looking and pretty
so here this image this is kind of uh
thank you this is like a very pretty but
it's also very smart looking so we
describe this style as chic chic so i
like chic clothes or i like
my favorite style is kind of a chic
style
yeah someone says i'm curious about chic
so this is an example of chic style
okay uh on to
retro retro so retro is very different
from vintage because
retro
is new things that we make
like they're something from the past so
that means all of these things
this fashion these items whatever
they're new a company or someone made
new things to look like their favorite
things from the past so this is retro
style retro style so vintage is actually
the old things that's actually the old
stuff vintage things
retro is new stuff made to look like
something that's old so it has kind of
this new feeling about it like you're
just kind of making something again
this is retro okay someone says
sophisticated can be chic and elegant
yes absolutely
is it sheck or chic the spelling of chic
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okay on to the last few because time is
running out oh my uh funky it's the last
oh coming up funky funky so funky
relates to funk like music funk so it's
often like these bright colors and kind
of like this cool maybe a little bit
sexy feel so she has like this bright
red bag it looks red to me she has like
this bright colored bag and like this
cool kind of relaxed casual feel but her
shoes are really like exciting yeah like
so this is kind of a funky look a funky
style or a funky feel
we call this funky
all right almost done
last one or sorry second to last is
rustic rustic this has become more
popular i feel like on instagram lately
so this was hard to find a picture for
but rustic the feel of rustic is like an
a cabin an old cabin in a forest this is
called a cabin so it's a small house in
a forest a cabin
so
rustic is the feeling of
being here in this cabin so many cafes
are very rustic or maybe people want a
rustic house so rustic is like this
wooden
natural feel plus something old that's
how we like explain rustic so the
spelling is r-u-s-t-i-c
rustic rustic that is a rustic style
i've noticed lots of like rustic uh
instagram photos of like coffee uh and
coffee shops in the last few years so i
think it's a thing
okay finally is the word fashionable
fashionable or some of you wrote stylish
as well that's fine fashionable or
stylish we use fashionable or stylish to
talk about someone who's always like
looking for the new fashion they always
want to have something cool and original
from like the top designer from a
special designer so maybe this is this
is an interesting look so someone who is
really interested in fashion we could
say they're very fashionable or they're
very interested in fashion we also use
fashionable or stylish to talk about
someone that we think has good style so
oh he's very fashionable or she's very
stylish means we like that person's
fashion so we usually use this as a
compliment fashionable or stylish so
sometimes maybe it's a kind of strange
fashion but we can use these words to
describe those those people as well
okay
let's finish up there i have to go to
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episode very exciting
uh slang how to describe your look so we
have all of these styles we talked about
i hope you found one that you like
slang let's talk about slang now so how
do we talk about uh our own like
clothing our own fashion
cool we can use the word cool this is an
adjective
it's sort of an old word
it's cool he looks cool she looks cool
just as we talked about here you look
nice or he looks cool she looks cool
cool is a general compliment that shirt
is cool your fashion is cool you can use
this with anybody it's fine to use with
people younger than you older than you
whatever to be cool
this is a new one to rock in the last
five to ten years maybe to rock this is
a verb to rock it does not mean to rock
a baby to rock
for example sunglasses or to rock a
shirt or to rock
shoes means
to wear
it means to wear yes but it means to
wear
and you're excited about it so it's used
like with something that you recently
bought like i'm going to rock my new
sunglasses at the beach or whoa you're
rocking some great shoes
so to rock means to wear but you're
super happy about it or you're really
excited about it so maybe some of you
are rocking something interesting today
so i'm not rocking anything i'm very
casual like
so i don't i don't make an effort to be
like fashionable here but perhaps one
day perhaps i should have tried to be
fashionable today
oh well okay all right so to rock
something to rock something
onto swag swag this is a noun swag is a
noun
uh swag this is a noun
swag is not a word i use but swag refers
to like a feeling like a feeling of
confidence in one's fashion usually in
your fashion or in your personality
someone who has swag
is someone who has confidence
or they have personal style and they're
cool about it like wow like he has swag
or like she has swag something like that
is how we use this word swag is a noun
referring to confidence in yourself and
in your personal style
swag this is the word young people use
okay on to the next pair on fleek and on
point on fleek and on point we use these
like adjectives so
i'll give you an example
we use these
often for like hairstyle or like makeup
style or we use it for maybe nails we
use this for small details often in our
look so for example her hairstyle is on
point today or like her makeup is on
fleek so these expressions on point and
on fleek mean perfect very good amazing
awesome your hair is on point today so i
use on point
a lot i don't use on fleek i don't know
why i don't like on fleek but uh on
point means it's perfect so the idea
with onpoint is that like you have a
point here and it's exactly here it's
just right so something that is on point
is just perfect just perfect
okay is it okay to use slang with
strangers these are okay yeah you can
use these these are okay it depends a
little bit on the situation
okay let's finish up we'll i have to end
quickly
let's look at the next three together
the next three are snazzy snazzy
swanky
and spiffy
snazzy swanky and spiffy snazzy means
something that is cool and like special
so that's a snazzy suit or that's a
snazzy hat it's something cool maybe a
little refined and special
swanky is something elegant that's a
swanky dress or this is a swanky bar
something elegant and a bit expensive
it's
swanky spiffy is sort of cute it has a
cute feeling and it's special and nice
so snazzy and spiffy are quite similar
spiffy sounds a bit older that word
sounds a bit older oh spiffy suit like
it sounds a little bit cute snazzy is a
little bit more grown up snazzy
okay gotta finish quick almost out of
time i am out of time dressed to the
nines is another kind of older
expression to be dressed to the nines to
be dressed to the nines means to be in
your top
form like you are at the highest point
in your fashion he is dressed to the
nines or she is dressed to the nines
for this like important event tonight or
for this gala event tonight so the image
is like a very
elegant dress or like a very uh elegant
tuxedo something that's just
beautiful or so so nicely made so that's
to be dressed to the nines so he's
dressed to the nines she's dressed to
the nines
all right last ones uh dope dope this is
a word that is used a lot with street
wear street wear so something that is
dope or like music that is dope it means
cool but it has kind of this street uh
vibe about it this street feel
okay
last one last one is trend or trendy
trend or trendy this isn't really slang
but it's an important word to know
something that is a trend so a trend
this is a noun
or something that is trendy and
adjective
so that means something that is popular
now
so that means it's not going to stay
forever it's just popular now
so like maybe for example
this street wear is or this shirt or
this brand is a trend right now or this
is a trendy brand something that is
popular now but will probably go away
soon that's a trend as an adjective
trendy trendy
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