Reading Comprehension - Check Your Understanding

A. Choose the correct answers.

1. According to the passage, which statement is NOT true?
A) People work hard to create their own look;··
B) Each city has its own identity.
C) People in Paris and New York dress the same.

2. Why did Scott Schuman start taking photos of street style?
A) He saw many fashionable people.
B) He worked for a fashion magazine.
C) He wanted to be more fashionable.

3. According to the passage, how do people use fashion blogs?
A) to say bad things about unfashionable people
B) to create their own styles
C) to learn about styles from the past

4. Where is street style happening?
A) mainly in New York and Paris
B) all around the world
C) on fashion show runways

B. Read the sentences below. In which paragraph (1-4) can you find the information. Choose the number.

Critical Thinking

1. What do you think of street fashion? Is it interesting to you?
2. Are there places in your city where you can see many fashionable people?
3. Do you think people are too interested in fashion? Is what people wear important?

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?