We go brave in our apparel* that we may be taken for better men than we be. We use much bombastings*** and quiltings to seem fitter -formed, better-shouldered, smaller-waisted, fuller -thighed than we are. We barbe** and shave often to seem younger than we are. We use perfumes both inward and outward to seem sweeter than we be. We use courteous salutations to seem kinder than we are; and sometimes graver and Godlier communications to seem wiser than we be.
— Sir John Harrington, 16th century. (* = garments, outfit, clothes, the clothes we wear, the clothes we are wearing. ** today we still use "a barber" for a hairdresser,cf a barbers', a barbershop, but to barbe = have someone shave you/cut your hair/ groom you, we don't..***Bombast is now only used metaphorically., adjective:bombastic)
Do you agree? Disagree? Is this a typical masculine point of view? Are men only real men when they are sloppily or shabbily dressed ( like me) unshaven, with illkempt hair, and smell of... ..? Is this still relevant today, or oldfashioned?
He was talking about other men - did this , does this, apply to women too?
And ENJOY:
Masses of vocab! in purple, italic, bold .YOU can look it up for yourselves!
Lyrics:(my fisking in red)
They seek him here, they seek him there,
His clothes are loud, but never square.
It will make* or break him so he's got to buy the best,
'Cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion.
And when he does his little rounds,(to do one's rounds is the decription of a JOB, a postman or repairman etc. It's used ironically here)
'Round the boutiques of London Town,
Eagerly pursuing all the latest fads and trends,
'Cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion.
Oh yes he is (oh yes he is), oh yes he is (oh yes he is).
He thinks he is a flower to be looked at,
And when he pulls his frilly nylon panties right up tight,
He feels a dedicated follower of fashion.
Oh yes he is (oh yes he is), oh yes he is (oh yes he is).
There's one thing that he loves and that is flattery.
One week he's in polka-dots, the next week he is in stripes.
'Cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion.
They seek him here, they seek him there,
In Regent Street and Leicester Square.(fashionable streets in London's west end)
Everywhere the Carnabetian( Carnaby street is still with us, but carnabetian as a word is disused) army marches on,
Each one an dedicated follower of fashion.
Oh yes he is (oh yes he is), oh yes he is (oh yes he is).
His world is built 'round discoteques and parties.
This pleasure-seeking individual always looks his best
'Cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion.
Oh yes he is (oh yes he is), oh yes he is (oh yes he is).
He flits from shop to shop just like a butterfly.
In matters of the cloth he is as fickle as can be,
'Cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion.
He's a dedicated follower of fashion.
He's a dedicated follower of fashion.
* Beau Brummel, 200years ago, on a fashion-victim of his times: " His tailor makes him.Now me, I make my tailor". To make or break refers to critical, deisive, all-or-nothing , succeed or fail, points or moments, and there is even an adjective: make-or-break
and again,(click for link to wikipedia for background, )same song, with plenty of swinging London, late60s, Carnaby street, etc.
First, or skippable :Quck revision:
Nb Usa bathrobe , uk dressing-gown, aka housecoat, etc
usa pajamas, aka jammies,uk pyjamas, aka various versions, inc skijamas etc
Pants is inner or outer depending on which side of the atlantic.
For many people it is politically incorrect to talk of blouses, since the word belittles women.Shirts only, the men's garment is a power word??!!!
As for underwear, the vocubulary issue is complicated.
also go to:http://www.languageguide.org/vocabulary/clothes_men/?lang=en&target=zh-tw
Andhttp://www.languageguide.org/vocabulary/clothes_women/?lang=en&target=zh-tw
and http://www.languageguide.org/vocabulary/clothes_winter/?lang=en&target=zh-tw
andhttp://www.languageguide.org/vocabulary/sewing/?lang=en&target=zh-tw
The above four have sound, the following is just visual:
http://www.learnenglish.de/vocabulary/clothes.htm#Anatomy
I've not given the ladies enough of a look in:
here's a"taster": Interesting vocab in bold, my fisking in red
On the Subject of Rain Boots…..
January 18, 2008 by Fashion a la Mode
This blog uses language I know, but would NEVER use in this context, and expresses emotions I don't feel about fashion, clothes, and shopping, but it should be fairly easy for advanced -level fashionistas who enjoy talking clothes, talking shopping, even perhaps want to aquire a vocabulary several thousand words beyond their teachers at the EOI (me even): click for the full thing, highly recommended:
:http://blog.fashionalamode.com/2008/01/18/on-the-subject-of-rain-boots/ and other posts on the same blog
Now for something topical:
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Was Charlie Gilmour wearing Savile Row when he dangled from the Cenotaph?
The incident behind the above piece,from the telegraph
Will Heaven
Will Heaven is an Assistant Comment Editor and the Deputy Editor of Telegraph Blogs. He writes about politics and religion and is @WillHeaven on Twitter.
Should Girton College, Cambridge rusticate Charlie Gilmour?
By Will Heaven Politics Last updated: December 10th, 2010
124 Comments Comment on this article
“My intention was not to attack or defile the Cenotaph,” said Charlie Gilmour, son of the Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, earlier today. “Running along with a crowd of people who had just been violently repelled by the police, I got caught up in the spirit of the moment. I did not realise that it was the Cenotaph and if I had, I certainly would not have done what I did.”
Reading these comments – and looking at the picture of Gilmour hanging stupidly from the Union Jack – I hardly imagined the wally(wally =gili, sin que sea tabu) would be a student himself. Surely just a spoiled drop-out, or an wannabe (wannabe= wanttobe, wouldbe) anarchist, I thought. But as Victoria Ward reveals, Charlie Gilmour is a second-year history student at Girton College, Cambridge.
Personally, I don’t think it reflects well on Cambridge that one of their history students doesn’t recognise the Cenotaph when they see it. But aside from his unadulterated ignorance, there is something base about Gilmour’s behaviour that an institution like Cambridge shouldn’t tolerate. It calls to mind the case of Philip Laing, the moronic Sheffield Hallam University student who was photographed urinating on a war memorial – and who was sentenced to 250 hours community service because of it.
An Oxbridge-educated colleague tells me that Charlie Gilmour risks “rustication” – being sent away from the university for up to a year as punishment. Given all the “feasts and formal occasions” he so enjoys attending, that’s the least Cambridge could do.
Tags: Cenotaph, Charlie Gilmour, student protests
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