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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Essay 2-02a: Up with Fashion!!! **Website Review Draft**

Clothing is one of the good ways to express what kind of person you are. You might wear formal clothes like suits and dresses in a formal situation such as workplaces and ceremonies like weddings. Some might deck out when they go to school, on a date and some special occasions. Also, people might deck out when they start a sport newly. Whatever the case, outfits are your spokespersons. However there is always a trend in fashion and it changes seasonally and yearly. You always have to keep an eye on the trend if you are fashion-conscious.

In this essay, I want to introduce one of my favorite websites about fashion. I like a fashion magazine “Glamour” and I want to buy it monthly. However it’s quite expensive to do that in Japan so I searched the website on the Internet and read it for free. The contents are not exactly same but you can get fresh information from the website. The website actually has more information than the magazine and it’s more convenient to access previous contents.

There are two kinds of Glamour websites in English. One is British Glamour and the other is American Glamour. British website mainly consists of eight areas which are beauty, celebrity, hair, fashion, love, health and lifestyle, our playlists, and dos and don’ts. American website also consists of eight areas which are fashion, beauty, love and life, health and fitness, shopping, horoscopes, video and “in the magazine”. They are slightly deferent from each other. You can not only get knowledge about fashion but also about various things. I like most of them but I like “dos and don’ts” the best of all.

On American “dos and don’ts” pages, you can check some ordinary women’s fashion. Some are fabulous and some are terrible. You can even vote on each fashion whether you think it do or don’t. Other viewers’ votes also appear so you have chance to check your fashion sense. They are good pages to know what people on streets wear and you can know real fashion trends in the U.S.

On British “dos and don’ts” pages, the focus is on celebrities in the U.K. and U.S. When you click either “do icon” or “don’t icon” above the each picture, the percentage of how many people agree with you appears.

I like both Glamours. I’m sure you’ll get some new ideas about fashion, health, lifestyle, and so forth. Seeing is believing so I would like you to check the websites.

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5 comments:

masumi said...

It is good idea to read magazine for free!! Which area do you like the best? I like fashion the best!!

Akiha said...

It’s very fissionable! I don’t interesting to fashion. So I don’t read magazine for fashion. But this magazine is great. I can know about British and American fashion.

Yusuke said...

Hi Takako! These sites are very stylish, but I don't know recent fassion. So, I am interested in these sites. I am also surprised at the numbers of contents!
Then, I have a question, how did you know these magazine?

Takako said...

Thanks for commets!!

masumi
My favorite is "Dos and Don'ts"!!
Check it out once!!

Akiha
This magazine is not only about fashion but also other topics like how to manage your finance etc.

Yusuke
I got to know this magazine at a book store "Kinokuiya" downtown. It's not there anymore though...

mangi madang said...

Hello Takako.

I think it is very useful that you read English fashion magazine on web. You can get both enjoying your favorite and studying English.


Toshi