Fashion vocabulary

The biggest trends in fashion today are not good trends. They include massive levels of waste, huge damage to the environment and the exploitation of workers. Check out the posts at the bottom of the page for more about these problematic trends.

For now, let's look at nine words commonly associated with the fashion industry. These words are very useful for you to know and to be comfortable using when talking about fashion.

textiles (n)

trendy (adj)

recycle (v)

collection (n)

brand (n)

disposable (adj)

synthetic (adj)

stock (n)

garments (n)

Complete the summary below with the nine words above:

Fast fashion is a business model that produces fashionable, ___________ clothing quickly and cheaply. However, because fashion _________ are competing against each other, they now introduce more and more fashion _________ every year. This has meant that for most people in developed countries, clothing has become more __________ - they wear their new clothes a few times and then buy new more trendy clothes and throw the old ones away. Furthermore, fashion companies often have ___________ that they do not sell. The problem is the vast majority of these unwanted ___________ end up in landfills. Because most modern fashion is made with __________materials, such as polyester, they are non-biodegradable. While one solution is to ___________ unwanted clothing, this too is becoming problematic as there is simply now, too many unwanted __________ in the world.

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