Name: Real-Life 365days English Podcasts | Elementary | Episode 006 What do I wear?
Uploaded: 2026-02-22T16:14:12.000Z
Duration: 15 min 19 s
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Welcome back to another lesson with us here at Englishpod.

And today we're gonna talk about a very common situation when you, when you're a couple, when you have girlfriends.

Like, do you take a long time to get ready to get dressed?

my boyfriend takes longer in general because he's like checking his email, playing video games, like just, you know, we call it lollygagging.

I usually, I usually start getting ready later.

Like if we have to leave at 9, I'll start getting ready at 8:30, but

I'll be ready by 9 because I take a shower real fast, get dress and I know what I'm gonna wear and all my clothes are ready.

But on the other hand, my girlfriend takes forever to get ready and she's like, oh, and

then, you know, the hair girls have makeup and tights and.

If we're supposed to leave at 9, why don't you start getting ready before.

I don't know procrastination, and it's not even about procrastination.

Sometimes it just takes longer to look good than other times.

Well, in this case, we're gonna be looking at a lesson where it's the opposite.

The husband is taking a long time to get ready and.

Well, I don't think he has a very good fashion sense.

And we're gonna learn what that phrase means in a minute here.

But before we get going, I've got a couple of words to preview to help you understand what's going on in today's dialogue.

So to iron basically means to, to get the wrinkles out of clothes.

And an iron is a machine that we plug in.

We use it to get the wrinkles, the lines out of our shirts and our skirts and everything.

And so it's actually a very important thing to make sure that you look nice and put together.

So you use an iron to iron your shirt or to iron your skirt.

I have A friend who used to say she had claustrophobic feet.

Her feet didn't like to be in closed spaces, so she only wore sandals.

Basically you wear them at the beach or you wear them in the summer.

In general, I'm wearing sandals right now.

I think they're called that because they sound like flip flop when you walk.

Alright, so those are our two words today.

Let's listen to the dialogue for the first time and then we'll be back.

Honestly, you take longer getting ready than I do.

I was drying my hair and ironing my shirt.

The striped short sleeve shirt with this checkered sweater and my lucky sandals.

I like the cut and hemline of these shorts.

We are going to a dinner party, not to the beach.

Wear the shirt with the silk tie I bought you and those corduroy pants.

It's chilly outside, so you can wear this coat.

This husband sounded a lot like a famous president.

Before we do talk about who this guy is, I think it'd be a great idea to talk about some of these clothing terms because they're very useful for when you want to go shopping and for when you're getting dressed.

Okay, so the first word that we have on language takeaway is striped.

You might have heard the American flag called stars and stripes.

Stripes are those lines on clothing or on flags that go up or down or left and right.

So you have, if you have a striped shirt, you have many lines on your shirt that are going up and down or left and right.

And they say with fashion, lines that go left to right make you look fatter and lines that go up and down make you look thinner.