hey everybody welcome to this a2 English listening practice video you can use this video to practice your listening and comprehension as I speak you ready so today I'm going to talk about clothes and fashion this is a topic that I don't really like that much but it's an important one everybody wears clothes and everybody has some kind of fashion or lack of fashion I might be one of those people that lacks fashion but we'll get into that in a minute first let's talk about when we first develop our own fashion sense and take it seriously
for me this was around the time when I was in middle school middle school is when I started paying attention to what kind of clothes I was wearing what brands what styles and what colors one of the first phases that I went through was the one where I wore really baggy clothes baggy clothes are clothes that are too big for you and they come down lower than normal clothes my shirts were too long and my pants weren't pulled up high enough it wasn't a good phase for me I'm sure many of you can remember going
through something like this when you were young if we look back at our middle school pictures some of us would be horrified so once I got into high school my style changed because I started playing more basketball thus I started buying all kinds of Air Jordans Nikes and other brands of basketball shoes I used to match the color of my shoes with the color of my shirts I was super color-coordinated then after that I ditched the basketball phase and I started wearing more casual clothes and then finally by the time I started college I'd stopped
caring so much about what clothes I wore nowadays I'm the least stylish person you'll meet I wear what's comfortable and I don't have many clothes so now let's talk about some of the popular clothing stores that are out there back when I was 17 I got my first job at a clothing store called Hollister some of you might know this store actually it was really popular back in my high school days but I don't know how popular it is now now when I go shopping I either go to stores like H&M or I go to
department stores like JCPenney department stores are really big stores that sell all kinds of clothes jewelry electronics and other things from many different brands I like these stores because they have a huge selection of clothes some of the most popular athletic clothing stores in the US include Nike footlocker and Dick's Sporting Goods for woman forever21 sada and Abercrombie & Fitch are some of the popular stores do you have these stores in your country in the u.s. most popular clothing stores are found in shopping malls here we just call them malls you can find malls everywhere
in the u.s. I think most of them are indoor malls but there are plenty of outdoor malls too I'm not a big fan of malls but there are definitely times when I need to go there to buy something and during the Christmas season I have to spend much more time at the mall buying presents for everyone ok that's all for today leave a comment and tell me what your favorite clothing store is I'll see you next time [Music] [Applause] [Music]
