The London Market In July 08 (2)

In the coming Autumn and Winter, the style of the men's tailored trousers and the causal walking shorts will be inspirated from the Wimbledon's tennis white short. The designers will use the ivory and white color to be the main colorways. For the women's tailoring suits, wool and tweed will be the first choice on the fabrication. These two kinds of fabrics are really good for making women's suit, especially for the pencil skirts. In the coming seasons, the smoky tone and the charcoal greys will be the main colors on women's suits. Besides, lace will be a very popular materials in this season. The most important reason is the great brand, Prada, has produced many blouses and skirts by a series of heavily encrusted lace. This is a big surprise for the market and it will be a new trend for the other producers.

For partywears, hot purple and lilac have been greatly used to bring the African mood. The designers use those colorways on their prints and block-colour patterns. Besides the block-colour patterns, ombre colors has also been intergrated into some products of Banana Republic and the psychedelic print patterns into the products of Pucci. For the styles, ties on the shoulders or on the waist help to create more fashionable details. These details can also help embroider dresses with unbalanced shapes. Anyway, lace is still a famous material on the partywears as usual.

Grammar Questions

1. 'What’s happen to you?’ she asked (in/ with) surprise. (Why the correct answer should be in?)
2. We are sure (about/ of) his intention. (Why the correct answer should be of?)
3. The helicopter is flying (on/ over) the sea to Macau. (Why the correct answer should be over?)
4. It was careless of you to leave your umbrella (on/ in) the bus. (Why the correct answer should be on?)
5. The village is beyond the mountain. You can see it (at/ from) the top. (Why the correct answer should be from?)
6. You have an appointment with Mr Lau.
   You: I’m Robert Choi. Mr Lau is expecting me.
   Receptionist: Yes, I know. Mr Lau has asked me to show you in when you come. If (you’d follow/ you follow) me, I’ll take you to his office.
   You: Thanks.
   (Why the answer should be the former?)
7. Why we say ‘She can’t have been 18 last year’ instead of saying ‘She couldn’t have been 18 last year’ or ‘she couldn’t be 18 last year’?

The London Market In July 08

In the coming autumn and winter, you'll see a new colour world using the theme of imperial and royal . Why do I say it? It is because most garments producers will use the heavy colourways on their products to bring out the theme. They will also use the bright colours; such as bright yellowish green, gold, and sharp red. Besides they will try to design clothes by mixing and matching the beautiful cherry red and grey, shocking blue and soft light yellow to create a whole series of design. Although all these colours are bright and sharp, the clever designers and garment producers will give their garments a harmonious and freshy look. All the above colourways together with fine cuttings will help create smarter outlooks.

On the other hand, the leather goods designers and producers are creating some unique looks for men and women. They chose the tranditional black, deep reddish brown, and some simple dark brown colours for the main colourways. The choices are save and welcome by most customers. But they make the products look different by integrating sporty outlook into leather garments. So collarless biker jackets with zipper fastening have been the most popular style in the market since this season. The other great styles, such as the double breast button jacket with belt details are favoured in the market as well. Besides, great designer like Yves Saint Larent used the soft fresh green onto his design of the smart biker jackets. This proves the sporty outlooks are important and favored in the leather field this autumn and winter.

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Monday Night
Read the articlel & the vocabulary items.

Tusday Morning
Listened to the vocabulary items again. I could only imagine some known words but couldn't realize the unknown words.
Tuesday Night - Read the book again & pronounced the vocabulary words. Try to pay more attention to the unknown words.

Wednesday Morning
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Wed. Night - Read the book again. Tried to memorize the unknown word.

Thursday Morning
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Tuesday Night - Read & pronounced all the vocabulary words for 3 times.

Friday Morning
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Night - Read & pronounced all the vocabulary words.

Saturday
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