English Dialogue Practice | Clothes Shopping | 54

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 sizes as a team of tailors working together to weave together multiple 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 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.

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stylish
hoodie
clothes
recently
expanded
horizons
expanded my horizons
dietarily
found out
gained
poundage
need
go up
a few
sizes
I've been there.
It wasn't so much...as...
team
tailors
working
weave
multiple
blimps
encompass
frame
nailed it
can't go wrong with
bargains
huge
shopper
jeans
tennis shoes
style
over
comfort
gotten
flipped
intersect
golden
trifecta
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outfit
piece
pick out
shirt
matching
end up
sniff
check
sniff check
left
laundry
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bang
buck
more bang for your buck

There are many ways to bargain shop. Bargain shopping includes shopping when stores have sales, such as 'buy one get one free' or '50% off.'

Another way to bargain shop is to go to consignment stores. Consignment stores can also be called resale or used clothing stores. Check out this video from KHON2 News, a news station in Hawaii for more English dialogue practice. It has great vocabulary about bargain shopping, fashion, and consignment stores.