ОТ a) silk or velvet coats

b) made a mistake

c) to make him pale

d) but at the royal court they were still being worn

e) rushed across

f) till they were stiff as a board

g) worn under their clothes

h) which were fixed on

From the History of Fashion Industry

In Georgian times in Britain dresses were worn over wide, hooped petticoats.

These came into fashion in 1710 and went out of fashion in the 1780s, 1………...

over 40 years later. A writer complained that when one young lady walked down

the street she took up the full width of the pavement. In 1776 a lady 2. ………

of wearing a decorated hat in the country. It was covered in fruit and vegetables

3…. ……..with metal pins. As she sat down for a picnic a passing cow 4. …….. to

eat the hat. Sadly it ate the metal pins too. One stuck in its throat and the cow died

a few hours later.

Rich gentlemen could afford clothes just as the ladies’. 5. ………….. could

be embroidered with silver thread and trimmed with lace. The collars and neck-

cloths that became popular in the 1820s were starched and ironed 6……… .

Fashionable young men of the early 1770s wore thick white make-up, cheek

blusher and lipstick. George IV was especially vain about his appearance. He

covered his face in chalk dust and even used leeches to suck his blood to try

7…….. George also wore a corset to make his bulging waist thinner.

In those days men often changed their shape with padding 8. …….. . They

padded the calves of their legs so they didn’t look skinny when they w​