English Shopping Phrases You MUST Know! | Speak Fluently When Buying Clothes

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- So I need your help today.
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I'm gonna go shopping, teach you some vocabulary,
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and you're gonna help me choose some new clothes.
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First of all, vocabulary.
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Everything here is called a top.
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It doesn't matter if it's a T-shirt, a shirt,
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a V-neck sweater,
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everything here is a top,
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so this is a top, and these are bottoms.
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Yep, we use the plural, bottoms,
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because for shorts, trousers, they're all plural,
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except for skirts, obviously.
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We don't actually call skirts bottoms,
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but we do say, "What are you wearing on the bottom?"
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We don't mean on your arse,
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we mean on the bottom half of your body,
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so just keep that in mind.
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That is all the basics that you need.
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Let's go to Oxford Street.
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(upbeat music)
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So places like ZARA, H&M, Primark,
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these are all called fast fashion shops,
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so yeah, they probably use child labor to make the clothes,
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not really good, and it's really bad for the planet,
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but today, I need to use their clothes in my examples,
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so...
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(upbeat music)
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I love Uniqlo, I love Muji.
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Everything I have from Muji, I love, I'm a big fan of Muji.
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Same with Zara,
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but have you noticed the prices in Zara are really weird?
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It's either 10 pounds or 200 pounds.
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Like who prices the stuff in Zara really?
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Okay, this is too big.
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And when something is too big or too small,
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the size isn't right.
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You use the verb fit.
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If the size is correct, then it fits.
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But for this guy, no.
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So it doesn't fit.
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It's the wrong size.
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But for her, all her clothes are the right size.
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So she could say,
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"Yeah, these clothes fit me perfectly."
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But you know when you are a kid
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and your parents buy clothes that are too big for you
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because they know you are going to get bigger
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and one day it will be the right size.
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We have a phrasal verb for that.
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"Don't worry, you'll grow into it."
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Sometimes I buy clothes to grow into,
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or the opposite, shrink down into,
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if I'm getting too chubby.
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Okay, now we have the right fit
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but we also need the look, the style.
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If you want to tell your friend those clothes and you, no,
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you can say this,
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"Honestly, it doesn't look good on you."
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We have a more common verb to mean look good on you.
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Suit, pronunciation, suit, not sweet.
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And yet it's the same word as suit, like a business suit.
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But when you use it as a verb, it doesn't suit you.
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We just mean it doesn't look good on you.
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If it does look good on someone, you could say, yeah
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that really suits you, but why doesn't it suit you?
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Well, maybe it's not you.
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Maybe it's the clothes.
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Like
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If the shirt, the pants, the whatever.
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If it's very bright, very extravagant
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in color or style or pattern, then we could say it's gaudy.
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Now gaudy has a negative meaning you want to
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say the style is bad, it looks bad
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it's very bright, very extravagant, blah.
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It's very gaudy.
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So in my opinion, for example
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this shirt is definitely too gaudy for me.
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Nah,
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yeah, it's a bit gaudy but it fits me.
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Fit means the size is good.
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Suit means the look is good for you
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but there's a little difference with suit.
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You need that object.
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It suits you.
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It doesn't suit you, it suits me.
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But with fit, that's an option.
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It fits.
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You don't need that object, you can
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it fits me, that's fine too.
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But that's an option.
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That is not an option.
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You must have the object with suit.
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Maybe the reason they don't suit you is
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because this and this don't match.
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They're too different.
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Yes, of course you can say they don't match
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but that's basic and you are not basic.
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So how can we say that?
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So simple.
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You just use the verb go, that means match.
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Yeah, this top and those jeans
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they don't go, as a longer option.
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You can say they don't really go well together.
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And you can use this to talk
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about people a couple if you want to say wait, her and him
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they don't really go well together.
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I mean that's a strange match.
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Ugh.
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When you want to say they're too different
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like the contrast between this and this, it's too much.
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Use this verb.
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Yeah, they clash.
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To clash means they don't look good together
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because the style or the colors, they're too different.
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There's too big of a contrast between the two things.
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They clash.
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Again, you can also use this
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for two people with very different personalities.
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Like, yeah, I don't get on with Becky.
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We clash.
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Maybe you argue a lot together.
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So that is a very useful verb.
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Okay, can we just go back to that top a second?
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The one that was too big.
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When I first saw that, I was like, that looks ridiculous.
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I have to put that in the video.
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But then after a few seconds I was like maybe I don't know.
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And honestly, I left the store thinking
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about it and thinking about it until I got it.
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So we have an expression when you're not really sure
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if the clothes will look good on you or not.
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For example, you're shopping with your friends
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and you see something and you're like
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usually I would never buy this.
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However, do you think this would suit me or no?
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We'll use the expression
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If you can pull off something you are saying
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usually you wouldn't wear it.
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You wouldn't buy it.
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But that on you looks good.
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So he thinks I can't pull this off.
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She thinks, yeah, you totally pull it off.
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So notice you can separate this or not.
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You have the option like with all separable, phrasal verbs.
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Don't put the pronoun on the outside.
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Only the regular noun, that sweater
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those jeans, that top, that kind of thing.
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The pronoun it, them
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only in the middle with separable phrasal verbs.
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So this is a really good phrasal verb.
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If you want to say, yeah
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that and you definitely, it will look good.
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You can pull it off, or you, wearing that?
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No, you can't pull that off.
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You're not that cool.
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You could also say to make it work like, huh
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that gaudy t-shirt and those jeans, she makes it work.
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So for me, for this, I think I'm gonna keep it.
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I don't think I'm gonna return it.
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So which clothes do you think would suit me?
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Let me know in the comments and you can practice this.
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And many other lessons
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in my ebook made a special lesson just on this topic.
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We can practice on my website
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papateachme.com or patreon.com/papateachme.
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See you in the next lesson.
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Bye.
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