Fashion Vocabulary and Media Terms

Fashion Vocabulary

• Blazer

  A type of formal jacket

• Hoodie

  A sweatshirt that has a hood to cover the head

• Checked

  With a pattern of squares assembled end to end

• Striped

  With stripes all along the material

• Flashy

  Too bright and big looking

• Outrageous

  With an unusual or strange look

• Skimpy

  Referring to clothes that show a lot of your body

• Mud-splattered

  Covered in dirt

• Budget

  The amount of money you can spend on something

• Costume

  Special dress or clothes you wear for a party or filming

• Stuntmen

  A double of an actor who does the risky scenes

• Ripped clothes

  Torn clothes

• Can't afford

  You can't pay for it

• Size

  Clothes will fit you if they are the right size

• To throw away

  To put into the bin

• Trendy

  Fashionable

• Patterned

  Not plain

• Scruffy

  Not elegant

• Tight-fitting

  Skinny

• Baggy

  Too big

• To wonder

  To ask yourself

• Smart

  Elegant

• To wrap

  I'll wrap the present with a dot patterned material

Media Terms

• An event

  Don't forget tomorrow's concert, it's an important event for the artist

• Broadsheets

  Serious newspapers

• Tabloids

  Popular newspapers with a lot of pictures and brief reports

• Tune in

  To watch or listen to a specific radio or television programme

• To browse

  To look for information on the internet

• Channel hop

  The action of changing the tune you are connected to

• Documentary

  A TV programme about History or nature

• To skim

  To read quickly

• Inquiry

  Investigation

• Missing

  Absent or lost

• Accuracy

  The ability to do something without making any mistake

• Average

  A standard or level that is considered to be usual

• Phone tapping

  Secretly listening to the conversations of others in their phones

• Make Research

  Investigate

• Journalist

  A person whose profession is to write reports for newspapers

• To release

  Last Friday this singer-songwriter released a new album

• To deny

  To not allow/ To not accept / To say something is not true

• On bail

  To be kept in jail until the trial begins

• Gadgets

  Devices

• To broadcast

  To send out a programme on television or radio

• Nowadays

  Today

• Actually

  In fact

• A host

  The one who invites the guests

• Foreign correspondent

  The representative of a company in another country

• Current affairs

  The most recent worries or happenings

• Headlines

  The title for a news report

Phrasal Verbs

• Do up

  Fasten

• Dress up

  To wear an outfit

• Go with

  Match

• Put on

  To wear

• Take off

  Opposite of put on

• Try on

  To wear something you are aiming to buy