How do we keep warm and dry

By: Steven Francisco Reyes Ch.

How do we keep warm and dry?

Vocabulary.

Wax: the material from which the candles are made.

• Waistcoast: a man’s body garment, often quilted and embroidered and having sleeves, worn under the doublet in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Silk: a fine, strong, soft lustrous fibre produced by silkworms in making cocoons.

Cocoon: something that envelops someone in a protective or comforting way.

Ribbon: a long, narrow strip of fabric, used for tying something or for decoration.

Scale: each of the small overlapping horny or bony plates protecting the skin of fish and reptiles

Underwear: clothing worn under other clothes next to the skin.

What is batik ?

Do people still wear national costume?

Which ladies wear tall lace hats?

Who invented silk?

Where is the capital of fashion?

MILAN-ITALY

LONDON

NEW YORK

PARIS-FRANCE

Amazing

things about

fashion.

The house of Bijan.

US$ 50

US$ 50.000

The most expensive things in the world!

$ 30 million € 3.000

€ 33.600

$ 16.300

Facts of fashion

In a recent survey, one in ten Americans admitted that they bought an outfit with the intention of wearing it just the once and then returning it to the shop.

Married men in France use more cosmetics than their wives

Most lipsticks contains fish scales.

In the 18th century, it was considered the height of fashion to wear false eyebrows made out of mouse skin.

Men didn’t wear underwear until the 16th century.

40 percent of women have hurled footwear at men.

Cotton, found in most clothing, is the most pesticide-dependent crop in the world. It takes one-third of a pound of pesticides to make one t-shirt.