Do we know enough about clothing business?

Mentioning the brands, do you know what you pay for?

What are you eager to pay for? Rate the points.
 Name
 Quality
 Limitedness
 Unique design
 Collaboration of brands
 Media feedback
 Country of origin
Can you add more points to the list?
Look at the picture on the right. Do you know anything about the brand?
You are going to watch a video about the reason of high cost of Supreme clothing. Before watching, look at
the words and expressions below and match them with the correct definitions.
1. Faux fur unusual or attractive in a way that makes you notice it
2. To make a living off smth a situation in which all people are treated equally, and no one has an
unfair advantage
3. Eye-catching to appear or come out from somewhere
4. Transition (formal) Fur that is made artificially, but made to look real
5. Obsession needed
6. Maintain existing as a physical building, especially a shop, rather than doing
business only on the internet
7. Burgeon (formal) when something changes from one form or state to another
8. Emerge to get your income or food from smth
9. Attitude the crime of stealing
10. Theft a mysterious, exciting, or desirable quality
11. Cease-and-desist method a large ring made of wood, metal, plastic etc
12. In demand an extreme unhealthy interest in something or worry about
something, which stops you from thinking about anything else
13. Brick-and-mortar to use all or most of your time, effort etc in order to do something
14. Outlandish to make something continue in the same way or at the same standard
as before
15. Alluring the opinions and feelings that you usually have about something,
especially when this is shown in your behaviour
16. Hoop someone’s education, achievements, experience etc that prove they
have the ability to do something
17. Devote strange and unusual
18. Credentials a method that involves the end of doing something immediately
19. Equity to grow or develop quickly

Watch the video and answer the questions.

1. What is the main feature of Supreme to be unique and famous?
2. Do you think it is possible for any other brand to repeat the success of Supreme?
3. What is your attitude towards buying clothes in the Supreme way?
4. Would you stand in line for a buying a Supreme T-shirt?
5. What do you think of buying fake Supreme clothes?
Do you pay attention to the label info of an item you buy?
Is the manufacture country of a piece of clothes important for you?
What are the most important textile countries? Why are these
countries used for manufacturing clothes?
What do you know about the brand on the right? What do
you know about Bangladesh? How are these two things
connected?

You are going to watch a video about H&M and Bangladesh relations in the clothing business. Before
watching, look through the words and match them with their definitions.
1. Sustainable a situation in which people have the same rights, advantages
2. Equality a feeling of being comfortable, healthy, and happy
3. Labor a process in which you make a judgment about a person or situation, or the
judgment you make
4. Well-being a company or person that provides a particular product
5. Supplier to take action or make changes that you have officially decided should happen
6. Audit able to continue for a long time
7. Assessment to make a great effort to achieve something
8. Standpoint work, especially physical work
9. Strive an official examination of a company’s financial records in order to check that
(formal) they are correct
10. Transparent a way of thinking about people, situations, ideas etc
11. Implement clear and easy to understand

Watch the video and answer the questions

1. What are positive features of manufacturing clothes in developing countries?
2. Why is it so important for Bangladesh to carry on collaborating with H&M?
3. How can the collaboration affect the country negatively?
4. Can Ukraine become one of the manufacturing countries?