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I'm going to go.

so i had these dried up branches already around the home in a clear vase

and we never really liked it and i don't know

if you guys remember but quite a few months ago i went to

that is it auto a u d o the like auto copenhagen showroom

and i said that when i saw this kind of like vase

that i absolutely loved it

and about two weeks ago i actually finally placed an order for it

and it's arrived so i'm not sure

if these branches themselves will actually be the ones

that stay in here

but they're all i have around for now i'm going to

put up a picture like here of kind of like what i'm thinking

but i think for now this will do i just don't want to put too many of them in there

so we'll move into space now we'll see

but again keep in mind these are just the branches

that i had in the home already

so that's how we're looking i'm not fully sold on this

but it is an improvement before there's just a whole bunch of them in this glass vase

and it just didn't look that nice being able to see the bottom of the branches

and we also had like rubber band tying it all together

so i do think it's an improvement

i think one kind of like thicker branch would look a lot nicer

i might even try less of these in here

but i do like this idea of like it's kind of like vines

and stuff like going up your wall a bit it's a nice way to add a little bit of height

because again our ceilings are very high

but main thing is i love this just got to figure out how to style it correctly

but yeah it's quite nice

so i'm in a little bit of a rush

but i wanted to show you what i am wearing today i'm about to go meet dion for a coffee

because there's a little side project that we are working on

and then we might also explore a few of the shops nearby

but i wanted to show you today's fit start with this the uniqlo waffle this i sized down into this

so i normally take a larger took a medium in there

then we do have i'll show a full body afterwards we do have the the ds colorado trousers

and then i am going to jump on this banana republic v -neck sweater for footwear

it is going to be the jill sander derbies couldn't be happier with this purchase

i wear these all the time and it's really helped me stop wearing boots

so much and be able to kind of add a little kind of smarter element to my outfits.

Bam, that's what it kind of looks like.

But the main thing that I need to wear, put a lot of use into, is this stunning little jacket,

which we've pretty much signed off for the fit and pretty much everything.

It just needs a good wear test over this fall, winter, just to really see how it holds up

and to make sure that we're

so happy with this this is the first like proper like leather clothing product this is the ds leather jacket

which i love it's got

this beautiful aged vintage look super soft really nice worn in feel

it does zip all the way i'm going to do it now

but it does zip all the way up to your neck

and then you also have the buttons here as well so

if you did just want to just button it you can do

that too but oh a bit hot all right

that is how we're looking excuse the angle I know it's not the best

but it gives you an idea of what I guess the full outfit looks like I feel like I'm rambling

because I know that I'm running late

I was living, walking in life

Always crying for a new disease

But like a tec de mato,

a flower Muitas vezes é da dor que vem o amor

E o que pensa...

I thought it was a mistake I look at your eyes of light

And I see a angel I forgot the tropezoes I forgot the fall

In noites lost I will find

I'm

going

to go to the next video.

i feel i haven't done a recent pickups in a while

and i guess it's because i don't actually purchase

that much anymore now home is pretty much all furnished now yes there are like little things

that we're looking at and things like that

but the majority of it is done

so i'm not like purchasing new pieces to fill the space

and honestly when it comes to clothing

because i have my own clothing brand it's quite rare now

that i do pick up pieces

but over the last few months there are some pieces

that i've acquired so i will show you them but

because i did just pick up this item with dion

i thought i'd talk you through it along with a few other pieces as you saw

we went to the stoffer store

which i absolutely love i love the interior of it i love their products

and especially i love the materials

that they use now i picked up this wool sweater well it's 70 wool it's 30 silk

and i absolutely love it now i especially don't pick up knitwear

that often because we sell again i'm a bit biased great knitwear from my clothing line

so it's very rare for me to pick up knitwear

but we don't sell anything in this type of shape or construction

which is why it really did catch my eye what i really love about this is the fit

i love how at the waistline it does cinch in slightly

so you can fold it up if you want

but it also has this really nice overhang look the weight of this wool is great

it's perfect for this season now and it's not often i go for a sweater

that actually has a collar

and with this one i really do like just putting the collar up

it might not be everyone's cup of tea obviously you can put it down

but honestly i think this is a great pickup it's a super timeless piece

and i love the charcoal color oh

and for reference i sized up in this to a size 50

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which is equivalent to a large and typically i'm a 48

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or a medium so next we have these vintage french spiraled spoons which i got from Taj Gallery.

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Now, I think you guys know this by now, but I love just being able to have such a simple like everyday item

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and just kind of like make it a little bit more interesting and exciting.

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So when my wife and I saw these, we thought these would just be a great,

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just everyday spoon that just adds a little bit more interest and detail into your home.

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Sticking with vintage and we have a new pair of boots.

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Also, I am gonna do a whole updated 2026 shoe collection video that will be coming very soon.

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So these are some vintage

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Red Wing boots, which are made in America.

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I got these off eBay and I'm pretty sure I paid $70 for these.

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These have become my everyday kind of like walking boot

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when I'm like taking like Jonah out to the park and things like that.

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I'll wear them on a rainy day, a muddy day.

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I love the color of these.

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I love how the brown leather has aged and I can still get a ton more use out of these.

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But eBay, especially like eBay in the United States, you can find some great quality boots for such an affordable price back to the home

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and we have these really nice vintage mugs

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which we picked up in brooklyn i use these every single day

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this is literally what i use for like my pre -workout coffee i have a double espresso in these again

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if i'm going to use something every single day why not make

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it a little bit more unique you can obviously remove the mug itself

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so you put it in the dishwasher also quick little note

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if you ever see something like this from myself

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or other people some like sort of vintage item just

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because it's vintage doesn't mean you can't find something similar

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or get your hands on it what you can do is you could literally screenshot

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this put it into like google and reverse image search it

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and see what comes up on ebay and places like that

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so even though i've got mine in brooklyn it doesn't mean you won't be able to find similar

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or the exact same things on ebay

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if you do really like them also we paid i think it was like 20 bucks for these

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so this is the final home piece before

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i do the last heavy hitter clothing item now this is my absolute favorite incense.

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This is from Perfumer H and this is that ink one.

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I truly just love the way this smells.

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Downside is they do cost a bit so I don't burn them all the time,

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but I wish my home could smell like this all the time.

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But on the plus side, when you do like them and they've gone out,

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I just find the smell just lingers in your home for like the next few hours, which is great.

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So this one in particular ink, the blue box, I love it.

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Couldn't recommend it enough.

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And for the final recent pickup we have this stunning

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jacket which i picked up at vanspace in brooklyn

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but the brand of the jacket is yoke

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which is this really nice japanese brand now this is definitely my investment piece

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this year i've wanted something for a while

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that is this kind of like worker barn jacket in this type of suede

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and the collar detail is kind of like what sold it to me also i can't hold up

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because this is heavy and that's also what i really wanted

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and it's lined on the inside with wool

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so this is a solid like fall winter jacket one thing

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that i really want to do with this and i don't know

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if you'll all agree with it but I don't want to be precious with this.

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I don't want to be scared to get it messed up

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because it's suede or scared to like wear it if it starts raining.

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I think this jacket's going to look beautiful in like five to 10 years when it's broken in, when it's weathered, when it's aged.

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And I feel like these days, people are kind of like afraid to do that with their clothes,

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yet we're so eager to buy these cool like vintage pieces.

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Like those vintage boots that I showed you before, those would have looked pristine brand new, but in my opinion they look even better now

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because they've been worn in they've been worn in different types of weather conditions

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they're broken in you know the leather is aged

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and it looks great

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that's what I want to do with this I didn't want to buy an already kind of like aged jacket

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I wanted to have something

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that I'll have like I said for the next 10 20 years ideally

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that I've broken in aged and it's kind of like a one of one

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so that's what this piece was for me

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I'm going to go to the next one. so

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so i'm heading into dumbo now because there's this vintage show that's on

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which i think they do like once a year apparently it's like a really good curation

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so i'm looking forward to going to it i love seeing

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kind of like vintage clothing to kind of like get ideas

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because i feel like vintage clothing can just have a lot more kind of like details

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and stuff going on that we lack in today's clothing

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so it's always kind of like inspiring for me this is the fit you can't really see it

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but we'll take a look i'll show you some cool pieces and we'll see if we pick anything up as well so

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I'm

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going to

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go to the next video.

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so one thing i've been doing a pretty damn poor job of lately is documenting the clothing brand

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and honestly my only excuse is

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that it's just it's quite overwhelming

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there's there's a lot to do a lot of content to

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be made a lot of honestly most of my time is spent here on the computer on meetings and stuff.

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It's quite boring to actually film.

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We have so many cool things in development

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and I need to start.. kind of getting out of my head

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and being afraid to show like DS and stuff on this channel.

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And I just need like, there's products,

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I think I'm going to do it in the next one of actually like show you some really cool things

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that we're working on, why we decided to make it and kind of like what's gone into it.

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I really did want to talk about these because our Merino wool knits are our best selling, like hands down best selling,

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especially in fall and winter time product that we've made.

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And we have five new colors.

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So I kind of did want to talk about them

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and show them to you because I think these colors are just lovely.

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We did a slightly different technique to these ones, had a little bit more fun with it.

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And ultimately what we have done, so it's the same, it's the exact same block as our Merino wool sweater.

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So if you already like that block, you'll love these.

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Just like the originals, these are 100 % Merino wool and they are RWS certified Australian Merino wool.

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So there are only two really differences between these and originals

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and one is

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that these are slightly lighter these are around 670 grams where

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the original ones were a bit heavier at around like 800 grams

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which i personally like because it allows me to wear it now without overheating

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and the other one is that we went for a twisted yarn approach

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so that we could create these colors

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so it's not as flat as the original ones

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so pretty much what we did is we twisted multiple yarns into each colorway to create a mottled

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and textured look through the knit giving it this nice vintage feel

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so on this side we have a bit more of our timeless earth tones.

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And then on this side, we decided to have a little bit more fun.

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Now our royal blue in the original did super well.

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So we wanted to do something like that.

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So we have this kind of what we're calling electric blue, which does have this kind of like blue and black twist into it.

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And then we have, I think this is my second favorite color of them all.

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I'm calling this kind of like candy floss.

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That's like, it's just because it's got a mixture of it all.

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It's like a very subtle kind of like pastel pink, but it's so subtle.

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And that's why I really like it

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and then we do have kind of like our earthy green what i'm calling oat

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and then this beautiful beautiful brown and i think

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if i had to choose one

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and i don't like doing this i do think oat is my current favorite

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i just find i can style it with pretty much everything

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so these are dropping on thursday the 29th of october at 4 p .m

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and i promise i will do a better job at documenting all of these things

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because it's it's we just have such cool things coming

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and I posted on my Instagram story today actually of a western chore shirt

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and I even spoke on there about how I do a

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terrible job at documenting also how long some of these things take because on the 7th of October,

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2025, I posted me out wear testing that shirt for the first time.

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And it is now over a year later and it is finally being released.

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So there's just been, there's a lot of work on these products that goes into whether it's fabric sourcing,

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getting the fit right, the dye right, all of these things.

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And I need to do a better job at it instead

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of just always being like well here's the end product

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so i'm going to be working on that but yeah i hope you enjoy these

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 238 sentences and 2838 words to shadow. The speech runs for 18:04. The speaker talks at a natural 157 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
vintage noun	/ˈvɪn.tɪd͡ʒ/	The yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season.
clothing noun	/ˈkloʊðɪŋ/	Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to…
wool noun	/wʊl/	The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
jacket noun	/ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/	A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
boot noun	/but/	A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
leather noun	/ˈlɛðɚ/	A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing; often denotes leather from cattle when no qualifier…
sweater noun	/ˈswɛtɚ/	A knitted jacket or jersey, usually of thick wool, worn by athletes before or after exercise.
everyday adjective	/ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/	Appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions.
twist verb	/twɪst/	To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
collar noun	/ˈkɑlɚ/	The part of an upper garment (shirt, jacket, etc.) that fits around the neck and throat, especially if sewn from a separate piece of fabric.
vase noun	/veɪ̯s/	An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers.
outfit noun	/ˈaʊtfɪt/	A set of clothing (with accessories).
subtle adjective	/ˈsʌtəl/	Of an action or movement: very delicate or slight, and thus barely noticeable; not obvious; inconspicuous, unintrusive.
scare verb	/skɛɚ/	To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.
automobile noun	/ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/	A type of motor vehicle designed to move on the ground under its own stored power and intended to carry a driver, a small number of additional passengers, and…

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
pick up verb	To lift; to grasp and raise.
hold up verb	To wait or delay.
dry up verb	To become dry (often of weather); to lose water.
figure out verb	To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
get out of verb	To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of.
go out verb	To leave, especially a building.
go up verb	To move upwards.
hands down adverb	without much effort; easily

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if these branches themselves will actually · if you already like that block, you'll love
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	haven't done · i've acquired · have become
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	are made · they've been worn · be made
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	boots, which are · hours, which is

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 77 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: clothing /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/, leather /ˈlɛðɚ/, thick /θɪk/, earthy /ˈɝθi/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: rush /ɹʌʃ/, shoe /ˈʃu/, screenshot /ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/, curation /kjəˈɹeɪʃən/, dishwasher /ˈdɪʃˌwɑʃɚ/
Long words — get the stress right: automobile /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/, affordable /əˈfɔɹ.də.bəl/, ideally /aɪˈdi.ə.li/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like vintage, clothing, wool.

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Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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