Before You Read - Fashion on the Street

A. Look quickly at the passage. Think about answers to these questions.

1. The people in the passage had their photos taken while they were walking down the street. Why would someone want to take their photos?
   Answer

   Answers will vary. Possible answers include: The person who took the photos thought these people looked fashionable/different original;

2. What do you think street style is?
   a a place beautiful people go
   b a new way of finding fashion
   c a new kind of clothing

B. Discuss your answers with a partner.

Focus on Street Style

"People dress differently in New York and Paris," says Scott Schuman, who writes a blog about fashion. People in cities around the world pay attention to their clothes, and they work hard to look beautiful. They use their culture and the materials around them to create their own look.

Schuman started his blog to "simply share photos of people that I saw on the streets of New York." He thought the people looked fashionable, and he put photos online. Schuman isn't alone. Bloggers all around the world are using their cameras to report what is happening in their home cities. Since bloggers find and write about stylish people on the street, this type of fashion is called street style.

Fashion changes often. With the Internet, street style changes even more quickly. Bloggers only need minutes to snap a picture and post it online. Their readers can use those ideas to create their own styles. Fashion used to come from the runways of Paris and Milan. Now fashion is homegrown.

Do you think your city is fashionable? Go online! There are street style blogs for most cities around the world, even small ones. Does your city have one?