CLOTHES
(Plural noun) things such as dresses and trousers that you wear to cover or protect or decorate your body “she usually wears smart/casual clothes” “I’m just putting my clothes on” “designer clothes”
IDIOMS
To wear clothes to a special occasion
Put on clothes: to put clothes on yourself or someone else
Pull on/throw on clothes
Pull off/take off/tear off clothes
Change your clothes
Designer/expensive/trendy clothes
Clean/fresh clothes
A change of clothes
To talk about the material, fabric = CLOTH (prenda de ropa)
Clothe: to provide someone with clothes
Garment: (formal) a piece of clothing
DRESS: a piece of clothing for women and girls which covers the top half of the body and hangs down over the legs. “A long/short dress”; a wedding dress
To wear a particular type of clothes “to dress quite smartly for work; “Dress in black (wears black clothes)” “Dress for dinner: to put on formal clothes for a meal”
PHRASAL VERBS
Dress down: if you dress down for an occasion, you intentionally wear informal clothes of the type that will not attract attention
Dress up: to put on formal clothes for a special occasion. “You don´t need to dress up for a pub, jeans and a T-shirt will do”; to put on special clothes in order to change your appearance Ex. costume party.
Adjective: before noun, to describe men’ suits, shirts or other clothes of the type that are worn at formal occasions “a white dress shirt and bow tie”
DRESSED: wearing clothes and not naked; wearing clothing of a particular type “A well-dressed/casually dressed man” also beautifully/nicely turned out.
Dressed (up) to the nines: to be wearing fashionable or formal clothes for a special occasion.
Dressed to kill: intentionally wearing clothes that attract sexual attention and admiration.
Snappy: stylish and modern
Attire: Formal. Clothes, especially of a particular or formal type: “I hardly think jeans are appropriate attire for a weeding”
Wool: the soft, thick hair which grows on the bodies of sheep and some other animals. Thick thread or material that is made from this “wool cardigan” “to make balls of wool, needed to make a knit sweater”
Woolly: a piece of clothing made of wool, especially a jumper.
Woolen: made of wool “a woolen scarf”
Describing Clothes
· In a positive way: chic, dapper (dressed in a fashionable and tidy way), elegant, exquisite, fashionable, fetching (attractive) glamorous, gorgeous, magnificent, presentable, resplendent -in (formal, ex. Describing the Queen) (a bright or splendid appearance), sharp, slinky (for women, delicate cloth and fitting the body closely in a way that is sexually attractive), smart, snazzy (informal, modern and stylish in a way that attracts attention), striking, stylish, trendy.
· In a negative way: creased (cloth that has been folded or crushed), crumpled (full of folds-arrugas o dobleces), frumpy (old-fashioned and not attractive), grungy (dirty), ill-fitting (not fit well), mumsy (old-fashioned, look similar to a traditional mother), naff (not stylish nor fashionable), outdated, outmoded (no longer modern), uncool, unflattering.
Clothing materials
· Made from Cotton: calico (heavy plain cloth), chenille (thick soft thread which is used for decorating cloth), corduroy (thick cotton material with soft raised parallel lines in one direction, used for making clothes), denim, flannel (a light cloth made from wool used for making clothes-retasos), gingham (cotton cloth which has a pattern of colored squares on a white surface), linen, moleskin (strong cotton cloth which is slightly furry-fur- on one side), muslin (very thin cotton material), oilskin (waterproof material with a thin layer of oil), poplin (slightly shiny cotton cloth), seersucker (with a pattern of raised an flat strips on it), twill (strong cloth which has raised diagonal lines on the surface)
· From other plants: hemp (cannabis, rope), jute (substance from southeast asian)
· From hair or skin of animals: alpaca, angora (the long soft hair of the rabbit or goat), astrakhan (looks like the skin of a very young sheep from Russia which has a grey or black tightly curled hair), camel (soft pale brown cloth, used to make coats), cashmere (very soft, expensive wool material made from hair of goats from Kashmir), felt (thick soft cloth made from a pressed mass of wool and hair), fleece (the thick covering of wool on a sheep, a warm soft material), gabardine (thick cloth used to make coats), jersey (soft thin cloth made from wool, cotton or silk), lambs wool, leather, mohair, sealskin, wool, worsted (cloth made from wool to make jackets, trousers and skirts)
· From a thread (very thin fibre-string) produced by silkworms: crepe (thin cloth with wrinkled surface), chiffon (very thin almost transparent cloth of silk or nylon), gauze (very thin light cloth), satin (cloth made of silk, which is smooth and shiny on one side but not the other), taffeta (stiff shinny cloth made from silk or artificial material, used specially for dresses to be worn at special events).
· Man-made clothing materials: lame (cloth with threads of gold or silver in it), lurex (thread that looks metallic), lycra, nylon, polyester (artificial cloth), rayon (smooth cloth), sharkskin (), spandex (stretchy material, which makes clothes fit tightly), velour, viscose
Patterns of clothing
Brocade (heavy cloth with a raised design often of gold or silver threads), candy-striped (has narrow stripes of white and a bright colour such as pink), checked (pattern of squares formed by lines of different colours crossing each other), fairisle (of knitted clothing, made with a special pattern typical of Scotland´s Shetland Islands), fishnet (a type of material which looks like net Ex stockings), floral, flowery (decorated with pictures of flowers), herringbone (pattern of rows of V shapes Ex. Herringbone tweed), paisley (colorful pattern of curved shapes), pinstriped (dark cloth with a pattern of narrow, pane, parallel lines), plaid (tartan= pattern of different coloured straight lines crossing each other at 90 degrees angles Ex. A kilt)
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