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E: Examiner
S: Student
E: So, we've been talking about the type of clothing you like to wear. And now I'd like to ask you some more general questions related to this. Let's talk about designer clothing that is clothing of famous brand names. Are designer clothes popular in your country?
S: So far so good, not quite popular.
E: Why not?
S: You know because Hongkonger actually quite not care the design of the clothes. They maybe more care about the price of the clothes. Yes, yes, or the comfortable.
E: For those people who do spend a lot of money on designer clothes, why do you think they do it?
S: I think maybe they think they buy a lot of, a lot of the luxury or some expensive clothes can help them to build a higher self-esteem. Yes, and also, it can fulfil … maybe they have quite higher, quite higher stage of the Societies. Yes.
E: Do you think expensive clothes are higher quality clothes?
S: I think … I think maybe not because I have a experience and, maybe, maybe before I buy the … one clothes and from the Tommy but I think the quality is not too good. Yes.
E: Let's turn now to the type of clothes people wear to work. Do you think people at work judge their colleagues based on the clothes they wear?
S: Pardon?
E: Do you think that people at work look at their colleagues and how they're dressed and make judgments about them because of their clothes?
S: I think maybe because, you know, other colleague ... the other colleague ... they have the higher self-esteem and, and also they put the judgment to other guys. Yes, maybe other guys wear the cheap clothes and they will think they are the poor people. Yes.
E: Sometimes employers make rules about what clothes their employees must wear to work. Do you think people should be forced to wear certain types of clothes to work?
S: Yes, definitely. Because if you wear the formal look, it can show you’re professional. Yes. And just for example, the lawyer must wear the suits because the lawyer can ... because the suits for the lawyer can let the lawyer to build the ... a good reputations and professional to show his professional and the ... that's why, why the employer set the rule about, about the formal look in career place to the, to the employee. Yes.
E: In Hong Kong, do you think the way people dress for work has changed in recent times?
S: I think no because Hongkonger always wear the Hong Kong styles. Yes … of the clothes.
E: And what is the Hong Kong style?
S: I think maybe just like this. Yes, the Superdry’s hoodies, yes, and some comfortable shirts insides.
E: Thank you very much. That’s the end of the test.