Javier’s English Corner

Last March 17th, in order to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in our class, Aurelio gave us a great presentation on his trip to Ireland. You can enjoy his beautiful pictures again on the window below. Thanks a lot for your hard work, Aurelio.

Hello

the question can be interpreted in some ways: Alison thinks “fashion victims” means someone who is wearing horrible clothes but I think the victims are the rest of the people whose eyes are unfortunate witnesses of this aberration. We are the suffering targets that have to support the other people’s bad taste.

But I think our society thinks about “fashion victims” as a kind of self-slavery: people who like sharp muscles and go to the gym every single day, women in very high heel shoes even though they are uncomfortable, people who like wearing expensive clothes and the like. This behaviour not only is stressing but it also  demands sacrifice, money and time. Therefore, I believe we should avoid it and enjoy our time and spend our time  on other important things like travelling, going out with friends and, some weird students, learning English.

I would like to encourage the rest of my classmates to write in Javier’s blog to have a wide range of opinions. Otherwise Toña and I look like a pair of creeps.

Marcos

When I think about what “fashion victim” means, I usually picture someone who is wearing really horrible clothes or too many trendy items at one time. So when asked, “Are women fashion victims?” I would say that no, in my opinion not all of us are. Now, fashion is a difficult thing really to define because we all have different ideas of what looks good and what doesn’t. Someone who I might think is wearing such an awful outfit that I assume that they didn’t have any mirrors at home to look in before they left the house, probably did look in the mirror and thought they looked great. Just as people have different taste in music, food, art, etc., everyone is going to have a different opinion of what is fashionable and, correspondingly, will have a different idea of what constitutes a “fashion victim”.

Alison Brick.