Touchstone 2nd Edition Language summary Level 2

Unit 11 Lesson D: Changing fashions

Vocabulary
fashionable (adj)
heavy (adj)
trendy (adj)
skinny jeans (n)

Writing
Describing new trends
When you are describing new trends in a formal article, you can use expressions like in style,
popular, it's fashionable:

What clothes and hairstyles are in fashion right now?

Short hair is in style.

Glasses are becoming popular.

It's fashionable for women to wear . . .

When you are describing old trends in a formal article, you can use expressions like out of
style, dated, old-fashioned:

Long hair is going out of style.

High heels are dated.

Shoulder pads are old-fashioned.

There are also less formal ways of saying these things:

Right now, short hair is "in" / the "in" thing. It's very trendy.
(= Short hair is in style. It's very popular / fashionable.)

Long hair is "out."

(= Long hair is dated / old-fashioned / going out of style.)

Cambridge University Press 2014 Unit 11, Lesson D, Page 1