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I just got a bunch of hand-me-downs from my sister, but the problem is they're a bit big for me. So I'm looking to get a couple of adjustment done.

> Yeah, sure. No problem.

 

So let's go through that conversation one more time and look at some of the important expressions. The first one I think we should talk about today is hand-me-downs, hand-me-downs. What is a hand-me-downs? Well, luckily I am very familiar with hand-me-downs. I used to get them all the time when I was a kid from cousins, because what a hand-me-down is, it's something that someone else has owned and then it is given to you, usually from family members, older siblings, that kind of thing.

 

Okay, so first I need these pants hemmed. They're a bit long. I've already marked where I want the hem to end, though.

> Okay, great.

 

What is the next key part of the conversation, Morag? I think that would be where the customer asks for something to be hemmed. So the key word here is hem, or hemming. The hem is end of a piece of clothing, so the end of your shirt or your pants or pretty much anything, whenever the fabric is rolled over itself and stitched down so that it won't unravel at the end, that's a hem. So if you're hemming something, it's usually taking the hem up and making it shorter, although you can let a hem down and make pants or a skirt or a dress longer, depending on how much extra fabric is in there.

 

> Okay, I'd also like you to take in the waist of this dress. I need it to be taken in by 4 centimeters.

 

All right, so the next key part of the conversation that I wanna take a quick look at is when the customer asks the tailor to take in the waist of a dress, OK? Take in the waist of a dress. To take in, meaning to make cloths smaller, especially when we talk about the size of the waist, or even the size of the pant opening, the leg opening, or the sleeve opening, right? All of those spots we could take in.

 

I mean, I love the fabric, but when I wear it I look frumpy. I'd like it to be a bit more fitted.

> That's no problem. I'll give you a call when they're ready.

 

OK, Andrew, so the next piece of the conversation we want to look at comes right after the customer requesting the dress to be taken in. She says that she feels frumpy when she wears the dress as it is, so we're gonna look at this word, frumpy. So frumpy means you... Your clothes don't fit well. It's not just baggy, it's not just large, it's just they're not right. You just don't look put together. I always feel frumpy whenever I try on my friend's clothes, you know? May be I'm over at my friend's house and suddenly it gets really cool, so I asked to borrow a sweater or something. Then I put it on and it just doesn't fit right. It's a little too big and I feel really boxy and a little sloppy. This is a frumpy look. Yeah, it definitely is related to clothes not fitting properly, being ill fitting, on the larger side. Exactly, yeah. And we wouldn't use this expression for clothes that are too small, only for things that are too big.

 

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• as it is  현 상황에서는 [지금 실정으로는]  baggy  ˈbæɡi  헐렁한  sloppy ˈslɑːpi   엉성한, 대충 하는 , 헐렁한 (=baggy)  definitely  ˈdefɪnətli  (강조의 의미로 쓰여) 분명히 [틀림없이],

• properly  ˈprɑːpərli  제대로, 적절히