IELTS Vocabulary List on Clothes and Fashion

In this video, you will learn how to build upon your lexical resources in an effective and productive manner. Touching upon the derivation or origin of a word, which is known as the etymology of a word. Video entails how learning one word root can help predict and recall the meaning of several other terms. To commence with, we deconstruct the word ‘Dress’ itself by learning the part of speech it hails from, the meaning, the etymology and its appropriate usage in a sentence. Then moving further, we learn six other terms that have the same root word which are 

• cross-dressing
• over-dressed
• under-dressed
• dresser
• dress-up
• dress down

 Similarly, we learn another noun ‘Fashion’ and thus the key terms derived from it such as 

• fashionista
• retro fashion
• fashionable
• old-fashioned
• anti fashion

 After that the video entails some miscellaneous lexical terminologies such as 

• attire
• casual clothing
• denim
• shopaholic
• wardrobe
• ethnic
• vintage
• contemporary

 Furthermore, the video elaborates on some key terms that could be deployed while tending to questions or speech regarding clothes.

Furthermore, the learnt vocabulary is then used to answer a few sample questions asked in the IELTS speaking test. (e.g. Do you like to wear fashionable clothes?)