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self-fashioning through fashion.

English translation: use fashion to model themselves

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English term or phrase: self-fashioning through fashion.
Selected answer:use fashion to model themselves

14:57 Jun 15, 2014
    The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2014-06-18 15:54:11 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)


English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Journalism
English term or phrase: self-fashioning through fashion.
The women of Westeros do a lot of self-fashioning through fashion.
Iberi (X)
use fashion to model themselves
Explanation:
People who use the latest trends to create the image they want to portray in public.

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Note added at 12 mins (2014-06-15 15:10:23 GMT)
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fash·ioned, fash·ion·ing, fash·ions
1. To give shape or form to; make: fashioned a table from a redwood burl.
2. To train or influence into a particular state or character.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fashion

VERB

[WITH OBJECT]
1Make into a particular form:
the bottles were fashioned from green glass

1.1 (fashion something into) Use materials to produce (something):
the skins were fashioned into boots and shoes

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/fashion
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Helena Chavarria
Spain
Local time: 01:11
Grading comment
Thanks
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



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4 +4use fashion to model themselves
Helena Chavarria


  

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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
use fashion to model themselves


Explanation:
People who use the latest trends to create the image they want to portray in public.

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Note added at 12 mins (2014-06-15 15:10:23 GMT)
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fash·ioned, fash·ion·ing, fash·ions
1. To give shape or form to; make: fashioned a table from a redwood burl.
2. To train or influence into a particular state or character.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fashion

VERB

[WITH OBJECT]
1Make into a particular form:
the bottles were fashioned from green glass

1.1 (fashion something into) Use materials to produce (something):
the skins were fashioned into boots and shoes

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/fashion

Helena Chavarria
Spain
Local time: 01:11
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
Grading comment
Thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Yvonne Gallagher: yes indeed...
19 mins
  -> Gallagy, thank you very much ;-)
agree  B D Finch
2 hrs
  -> Thank you very much :)
agree  katsy
6 hrs
  -> Thank you, Katsy :)
agree  Veronika McLaren
21 hrs
  -> Thank you, Veronika :)
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