Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking

Clothes have always carried messages about social status, personal taste as well as individual self-expression. We always want to impress people. But the first impression we make almost fully depends on what we wear and how we wear it. Manners and speech are noticed next and character only later. So it’s quite natural that clothes are really important. They say “clothes make the man” …

2.What features of character do you value most in people?

I like it when people are kind-hearted and friendly. Such things as consideration for others, patience, tenderness, sincerity are also very important. What I really appreciate in people is honesty and a sense of humor.

3. What kind of people do you dislike?

I don’t like people who are rude, unfriendly, selfish and tactless. The quality I hate in people is insincerity

4. What unpleasant qualities of your future spouse are you ready to put up with.

Well, I think my future wife will possess the qualities I admire. But there are no ideal people. And I’m ready to put up with the drawbacks of her character. The only thing I’m not going to put up with is insincerity.

18. Clothes, fashion.

“Clothes Make the Man”

Clothes have always carried messages about social status, personal taste as well as individual self-expression.

You can’t but agree that clothes are really important because they tell people a lot about us and sometimes we judge people by what they are wearing. So people dressed in expensive clothes are thought to be wealthy and if a man is shabbily dressed he’s obviously poor and probably homeless.

Clothes can tell us about people’s nationality. So, a man wearing a tartan kilt, a black long-sleeved velvet jacket, knee-length socks and a small black hat is surely a Scots-man

Sometimes clothes tell us about people’s occupation. If you work as a nurse, a doctor, a police-officer or a fire-fighter you have to wear a standard uniform.

I personally think that the main thing about clothes is to be appropriately dressed for the occasion. When I go out with my friends at the weekend I prefer to wear casual clothes I feel more comfortable in, such as jeans, a T-shirt or a loose shirt with flat shoes or trainers. When I go for a meal in a restaurant or to a wedding party I like to be smartly dressed in something elegant and stylish and to look very classy and chic. And if I had to attend a formal occasion such as a job interview I would wear a smart fitted costume. There is much discussion nowadays about a school uniform. Some of my

classmates want to abolish the uniform at school.. But I think that we have to accept the fact it is necessary to wear it.

School is a place where students acquire knowledge. It’s not a playground, a beach or a ballroom. And it’s better for the students to spend time listening to the teacher and learning something than examining the latest trends of fashion.

Everyone in my class is really fashionable. They spend a lot of time talking about the clothes and jewelry they are going to spend money on. Some of my classmates have cut their hair into strange shapes, pierced their ears. They wear a lot of cheap jewelry. They say they show off their independence, feelings and values. I don’t know if they are right.

Fashion does play a part in my life, but I’m not really obsessed with it. I do want to look smart but I wouldn’t describe myself as a fashion victim. Fashion comes and does and looking clean and tidy is more important than looking stylish. I hate it when people dress alike because they buy clothes in chain stores. I prefer hand-made or design clothes, in these clothes you really feel you are an individual and you can look really extravagant.

The main factor which influences me when I go shopping for clothes is the price; I also pay attention to the color of the garment I want to buy and try to match it with clothes I already own.

By the way, most people are influenced by fashion in a number of ways. For instance, they decorate their houses according to fashion; go on holidays to fashionable places and so on.

Everyone wants to be attractive. What is your idea of being attractive?

One of the Chekhov’s characters said that everything must be beautiful in a person – face, dress, spirit and mind. We always want to impress people. But the first impression we make almost fully depends on what we wear and how we wear it. Manners and speech are noticed next and character only later. So it’s quite natural that clothes are really important. They say “clothes make the man” …. (Clothes)

But we don’t mean good looks alone when we speak about someone’s beauty. We want also to see as Chekhov wrote, a “beautiful spirit and mind “ in a person. His / her character and actions are extremely important. But what is to be done if the face isn’t so beautiful? Should we take this fact too seriously? Of course not!. Besides, as an American proverb goes, “Beauty is a very fine thing, but you can’t live on it.” On the other hand a modest, kind and honest person is respected and liked by everybody. “One good deed deserves another”, says an English proverb. I don’t think

there is beauty in a person who has good looks but doesn’t respect old people. And those who wear fashionable clothes are not beautiful at all if their conduct in the street and other public places isn’t good. There is an old English proverb about such people: “Clothes don’t make the man”. Real beauty means much more than a perfect body and nice clothes. To my mind such traits of character as diligence, humanity, respectfulness, sincerity courage make a person attractive. And besides you should be modest of course. A modest man never talks much of himself. He doesn’t try to have special privileges and rights, he is always critical about his own shortcomings and respects people around him

In conclusion I’d like to say that a man is a creator of his own happiness, fortune and personality. All of us are born sinless with a crystal soul like a blank sheet of paper, but with different levels of potential.

Probably most of us are full of drawbacks because we all are humans and nothing human is alien to us. But every day you should work on yourself. You should develop a positive attitude to life and people. The efforts which you make to become better will no doubt pay off. Your life will brighten and there will be new colors.

Vivienne Westwood, one of the world’s most innovative designers, 1___ in Glossop, Derbyshire. As the 2____of 3____, she 4____ her controversial 5____ on 6____ through her famous 7___ in King’s Road, Chelsea. Vivienne changes the name of the shop and its décor each time she presents a new collection. Among its first names are the following: 8 ___, 9____, 10____, 11 ____. In 1981 she 12___, ‘Pirates’, whose asymmetrical 13____, 14 ____ and baggy 15 ____ boots 16 ____ on the 1980s street wear. It was the beginning of 17 ____ which 18 ____ to be an endlessly 19 ___ drawing inspiration from an eclectic range of sources. He constantly 20 ___ and 21 ___ 22 ____ to change the face of fashion.

This woman 23 ___. And she 24 ____. Her women are brave and shocking, flirty and feminine – and never

25 ___. What I 26 ___ so marvelous about Westwood’s clothes is that they always lend themselves to the woman 27 ___, her caprice, and the choice gives 28 ___ to her intelligence. Vivienne Westwood’s women are truly chic. Concerning my friend Vivienne, I 29 ____ more giving and generous. She 30 ____. She 31 ___ into the artistic process and into the vision of one of 32 ___. She 33 ___ on a marvelous voyage and if she ever felt she’d had enough I would ask her to dim the lights on the Eiffel Tower and play ‘ God Save the Queen.’