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From the Ted Talk by Richard Thompson Ford: A tailored history of who wears what -- and why

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And in a way, it's not all that different today. Even _____, we used ________ and fashion as a way to signal identity and status and belonging, whether it's the expensive high fashions you might find on Madison Avenue or the edgy ______ of an _____ street culture. So maybe it's not surprising that we also judge each other in part based on what we're wearing. The problem is that we're not always very good at it. We could make serious mistakes that can have real ____________. So it works pretty good when we’re dealing with people who are a lot like ourselves. So I'm not bad at evaluating the wardrobes of college __________, lawyers, artsy _____ who live in big cities. But we're not so good when it comes to dealing with people from other _____ of life.

Solution

  1. types
  2. clothing
  3. walks
  4. urban
  5. styles
  6. consequences
  7. professors
  8. today

Original Text

And in a way, it's not all that different today. Even today, we used clothing and fashion as a way to signal identity and status and belonging, whether it's the expensive high fashions you might find on Madison Avenue or the edgy styles of an urban street culture. So maybe it's not surprising that we also judge each other in part based on what we're wearing. The problem is that we're not always very good at it. We could make serious mistakes that can have real consequences. So it works pretty good when we’re dealing with people who are a lot like ourselves. So I'm not bad at evaluating the wardrobes of college professors, lawyers, artsy types who live in big cities. But we're not so good when it comes to dealing with people from other walks of life.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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workplace dress 3
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collocation frequency
workplace dress codes 3
unwritten dress code 2

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