English Conversations on Clothes Shopping

In this English dialogue, Luke and Rachel talk about shopping for clothes. Many conversational phrases are used in this episode.

 

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Luke and Rachel talk about shopping for clothes

 

Script 

Luke (00:02): Welcome to English dialogue practice with Dialogue Frog. My name's Luke, and I'm here in the studio with Rachel again.
Rachel (00:09): Hey everybody!
Luke (00:12): How-How are you doing?
Rachel (00:13): I'm doing great, Luke, how are you?
Luke (00:15): I'm doing good.
Rachel (00:17): Good. That's a very stylish hoodie you have on today.
Luke (00:19): Why thank you. I just went clothes shopping.
Rachel (00:21): How did it go?
Luke (00:23): It w- it went well. I, uh, uh, recently expanded my horizons, uh, dietarily speaking, and I-
Rachel (00:34): Ah.
Luke (00:34): -found out I gained some, some, uh, poundage.
Rachel (00:39): Need to go up a few sizes in the, in the hoodies. I've been there.
Luke (00:44): Yep. It wasn't so much size as a team of tailors working together to weave together mutiple blimps to encompass my frame.
Rachel (00:56): Oh, okay. Well, I think they nailed it. It's, you know, can't go wrong with a hoodie.
Luke (01:04): Thanks. So, how about you? What, uh, how do you go clothes shopping or what do you look for?
Rachel (01:11): I look for the bargains.
Luke (01:13): Bargains?
Rachel (01:14): I am a huge bargain shopper. But I've been living in jeans, mostly. Jeans and tennis shoes. I used to be style over comfort, but since I've gotten a little bit older, it's flipped and I'm comfort over style.
Luke (01:32): Mm hm.
Rachel (01:32): But when the two intersect and it's a bargain, that's like the golden trifecta of clothes shopping.
Luke (01:39): Nice.
Rachel (01:39): That's that's what you want to aim for.
Luke (01:41): Yeah.
Rachel (01:43): So.
Luke (01:43): Yep.
Rachel (01:45): I do love shoe shopping though.
Luke (01:47): Right.
Rachel (01:48): Never have enough shoes.
Luke (01:50): Yeah. It's-
Rachel (01:52): When you, when you build an outfit, do you start with one piece or do you just like, do you pick out a shirt and then pick out matching things to go with it?
Luke (02:04): Um, I usually end up doing the sniff check on whatever is left for the week.
Rachel (02:14): So, you need to do laundry is what you're just saying.
Luke (02:18): Yes. No, it-
Rachel (02:18): That's not, that's not clothes shopping, Luke. That's that's just doing laundry.
Luke (02:27): Yeah. Usually I'm a bargain shopper though. I-I'm like you and I look for the bargains and-
Rachel (02:33): Me too. It's good to be frugal.
Luke (02:35): Yep.
Rachel (02:35): 'Cause then you can get more for your- more bang for your buck.
Luke (02:38): Right.
Rachel (02:38): More for your money that way.
Luke (02:40): Yep. Well, this has been another conversation with Rachel. We're glad to have you back in the studio.
Rachel (02:50): Thanks!
Luke (02:50): And um-
Rachel (02:50): I'm gonna go shopping now.
Rachel (02:52): Yup. Me too. Alright. Thank you for listening to Dialogue Frog.

 

 

Vocabulary

hoodie

- a hooded sweatshirt, jacket, or other top (e.g. Outerwear is either a denim jacket or a hoodie.)
expanded my horizons

- to increase the range of one's knowledge, understanding, or experience (e.g. I'm supposed to set goals and take night classes that will expand my horizons.)
poundage

- weight, especially when regarded as excessive (e.g. Reduce excess poundage without risking overexertion.)
I've been there

- used to say that one has experienced the same thing that someone else has experienced (e.g. I know how you feel. I've been there myself.)
It wasn't so much...as...

- If you say that something is not so much one thing as something else, you mean it is more the second thing (e.g. They're not so much lovers as friends.)
tailors

- [tailor] a person whose occupation is making fitted clothes such as suits, pants, and jackets to fit individual customers. (e.g. The tailor delicately plied his needle.)
weave

- form (fabric or a fabric item) by interlacing long threads passing in one direction with others at a right angle to them. (e.g. The women shut themselves behind closed doors to weave their cloth.)
blimps

- [blimp] an obese person
encompass

- surround and have or hold within (e.g. How am I supposed to encompass so much information in only one lecture?)
frame

- a person's body with reference to its size or build (e.g. A shiver shook her slim frame.)
nailed it

- an expression used to comment on the successful, skillful, or clever completion or performance of something
can't go wrong with

- used to say that something will always be acceptable in a particular situation (e.g. For a quick meal you can't go wrong with pasta.)
bargains

- [bargain] a thing bought or offered for sale more cheaply than is usual or expected (e.g. The secondhand table was a real barain.)
flipped

- [flip] to change from supporting one political party to supporting a different one; to make people in a particular place do this (e.g. They produced a list of the districts that are considered most likely to flip in the upcoming elections.)

intersect

- (of lines, roads, etc.) to cross one another (e.g. This is the point where the line intersects the curve.)
trifecta [trai·fek·tuh]

- a bet (= an amount of money that you risk on the result of an event or a competition, such as a horse race) in which the horses, etc. that come first, second, and third must be picked in the right order
pick out

- choose someone or something from a number of alternatives (e.g. She left Jed to pick out some toys.)
matching

- corresponding in pattern, color, or design; complementary (e.g. A blue jacket and matching skirt.)
end up

- [end up ~ing] if you end up doing something or end up in a particular state, you do that thing or get into that state even though you did not originally intend to (e.g. If you don't know what you want, you might end up getting something you don't want.)

sniff check 

- when in doubt, sniff check your way out

frugal

- sparing or economical with regard to money or food. (e.g. He led a remarkably frugal existence.)
'cause

- a short form of because
more bang for your buck

- [bang for the buck] more value for one's money, a greater return on an investment (e.g. With this program you get more bang for your buck.)