номер 2, страница 13 - гдз по английскому языку 9 класс рабочая тетрадь Комарова, Ларионова

Unit One.

Reading.

Exercise Three.

Pain in the name of fashion.

Women have endured pain in the name of fashion for hundreds of years. In the nineteenth century, the most important item in a fashionable woman's wardrobe was her corset. It allowed her to pull her body into the accepted shape of the day.

Not everyone was lucky enough to have a tiny waist. So women pushed and pulled their flesh until their body was the right shape. Then quickly tied their corsets into place, often causing fainting, deformity, and long-term health problems. All in the name of fashion.

Everybody has probably owned at least one pair of uncomfortable shoes in their life. But for some fashion victims, walking in tight fitting, painful footwear is a small price to pay for looking good. They don't call stilettos killer heels for nothing.

Doctors warn that wearing shoes with five, six, or seven inch heels puts extreme pressure on the toes and can lead to bone deformities, not to mention the very real risk of falling over and spraining an ankle, or breaking one of the bones in your foot.

But this hasn't stopped the rise of the super high heel as worn by celebrities like Jerry Halliwell or Kate Beckinsale.

Author Stephanie Pederson has written a book about shoes, in which she claims that every year in Britain alone, around two hundred thousand people need emergency hospital treatment as a result of shoe related problems.

Another way that we suffer just to look good is when we go out in sub-zero temperatures, wearing clothes designed for the tropics. Woolly jumpers and layers simply aren't cool. But tiny tops and thigh high mini skirts are.

The same thing goes for rain. Raincoats just aren't trendy, and umbrellas are for losers. It's better to get wet.