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Today I'm wearing a wool sweater dress with a belt and earrings. Rest assured, you are not in a fashion YouTuber video, but you are in a video for learning French.
In this video, we will see all the vocabulary to talk about women's and men's clothing. But also, we will talk about accessories and the patterns that can be found on clothing. As usual, don't forget to download the sheet to review the vocabulary in this video. It is available for free in the description.
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Now I hope you're ready to talk clothes. I told you, I'm wearing a dress. The material is wool. This is what you can find on sheep. You can also wear a skirt. Here, we will even say a long skirt. If you wear a shorter skirt like this, it's called a miniskirt.
Here I have another skirt, and you see the material, it's leather. Leather is a material that comes from animals. Trousers. And you see, the material is denim. So you can call it just pants or jeans. Here, for example, you see, I have another pair of pants, but they're not jeans. So I'll just be told pants.
A sweater. You can also have sweaters with a high collar. We're going to call it a turtleneck. You can either say a turtleneck sweater or just a turtleneck. Here, it is a garment that is generally worn under another sweater. We'll call it an undershirt. We put it under a sweater to be even warmer.
In my closet, I also have t-shirts. Here, you see, it's a t-shirt. Besides, it needs to be ironed. When you iron a garment, you use an iron to make it flatter, to remove wrinkles. In my wardrobe, I also have sweatshirts. A sweatshirt, you see, is a sweater in this material that we will wear more to play sports or to be dressed casually.
When you have a casual clothing style, when you're casual, it's the opposite of a formal style. I showed you earlier about myself, but in my wardrobe, I have lots of belts. Belts. You can put them like me at the waist to cinch a piece of clothing.
Here I have other clothes, you see. I have a vest. A vest is like a sweater, but you have buttons or you can have a zipper to close it. It is open. Here it's a shirt. A shirt. Yes, it is also very wrinkled. I have to go through it again. Ironing is not really my strong suit.
This is called an overshirt. An overshirt is a piece of clothing that you put over a shirt that is a little thicker. This overshirt, you see, has checkered patterns. Checkered. They are squares. For a piece of clothing, we'll say it's a checked shirt.
Here I have a dress. We can say that it is a floral dress because there are floral patterns, therefore with small flowers. A floral dress. Here, it's another matter. It's a sequin dress. It's a pretty complicated word. Sequins. You see, it's these little round shapes. They are sequins. It's a sequin dress.
So here, I don't know if you can see clearly because it's a little tone on tone, but it's a polka dot dress. For example, you can also have a white dress with blue polka dots or red polka dots. Here, it's black on black. The dots are velvet. It's a polka dot dress with velvet. You see, when you pass your hand, it's very soft.
On patterns, on prints, you can also have stripes. Here, it's a striped sweater. We're going to show some boys' clothes too. We have a polo shirt. A polo shirt. Here we have a suit jacket. A suit jacket.
Underneath a suit jacket, you usually wear suit pants. When you put on a suit, you can also put a tie on your shirt. A tie. If you prefer, you can also wear a bow tie. A bow tie. I'm showing you a photo of it because Mathieu doesn't have one.
We have something called chinos. Chinos. You see, these are quite light pants. Here, it’s linen, is that right Mathieu? Linen is a material that we wear a lot in the summer. A tracksuit. So sweatpants for doing sports. Here we also have shorts.
Here, it's sports shorts, but you use the same word for this form of clothing, whether you're playing sports or going to the beach, you're walking around town... Earlier, I told you about sweatshirts. Here it's a hoodie. More and more French people also say a “hoodie,” but it’s mostly young people.
Otherwise, we call it a hoodie because you can put the hood over your head. Here we have jerseys. Here we have a jersey too, but we can also call it a jersey short. A swimsuit shorts. And so, for girls, we also say a swimsuit, but you can specify whether it's a one-piece swimsuit, like this one, or a two-piece swimsuit, in two parts.
Generally, two-piece swimsuits, we'll call them bikinis. You see, here, me, I wear tights. Tights. This is what we generally wear in winter with a dress or a skirt. You can also put socks in your shoes. Here, I have some very pretty ones with little dogs.
In underwear, we will talk about panties for women and boxer shorts or briefs for men's underwear. In women's underwear, we also find bras, bras, which are placed at chest level. As accessories, you can have glasses. Here, they are prescription glasses, but you can also wear sunglasses when it is sunny.
Now let's move on to the jewelry. Jewelry is earrings, earrings, rings, rings. And here, you see, this is a special ring called a wedding ring. A wedding ring is a ring when you get married. I have a watch. Here we have bracelets. Bracelets.
Around your neck, you can also wear a necklace. A necklace. I'm now taking you to our coat rack to show you the different things we can find. Here, you see, we have a coat. Quite simply, a coat.
Generally, the difference between a coat and a jacket is that a coat is much warmer, it's thicker. A jacket will be, for example, this. This denim jacket. Here, you see, it's a jacket and not a coat. It's lighter. We have what we call a blazer. It's a fairly light little jacket that you can wear in spring or fall.
We have a raincoat or rain gear. Very often, in French, we use the name of a brand to talk about this type of jacket. We will say a K-way because it is such a well-known brand, which represents rain clothing so much that we very often say a K-way, even if yours is not the K-way brand. It's become a bit of a generic word.
So now, while we're here, maybe we can move on to accessories. Here, it's a hat. A hat. On his head, you can also put a cap. A cap. On your head, you can also put a hat. A hat.
Here I also have a bag or purse. A handbag. You can also have a backpack, which you put on your back. In winter, when you are cold, you can wear a hat, but you can also wear a scarf. Again in winter, you can wear, you can put on gloves to protect your hands from the cold.
There are also mittens, where you only have two compartments, one that encompasses all four fingers and one for the thumb. You are a bit like that. We will now move on to some shoe models. Here you have sneakers, sneakers.
I know it may seem strange to an English speaker because it doesn't mean the same thing at all, but in French, we use the word basketball both for sport and for the shoes that you can wear to play sports or increasingly for walking... You have boots, boots.
Here, these are ankle boots, ankle boots. They're little boots. Here, you see, Mathieu, he also has boots. Here, these are ankle boots for men. It's the same principle, these are shoes that we usually wear in winter. I have sandals, sandals.
And we can specify flat sandals, flat sandals, as opposed to, of course, heeled sandals, heeled sandals or heeled shoes. That's it, that's it for my dressing room and that of Mathieu too.
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