Gladiator Shoes Topped This Year’s Finest list Fashion Trends

Talking about trendiest styles, gladiator shoes are right on top. They are the best choice for women who want comfortable shoes for their feet while staying in line with fashion. Durable, yet stylish and extravagant yet so natural looking makes gladiator shoes the best choice for your footwear.

There are some women’s gladiator shoes with high heels, and some with no heels at all (flat leather gladiator sandals), keeping real to the original and historic gladiator shoe design. On the other hand, one of the most popular trends nowadays is knee high gladiator shoes, which basically shows that we have openly accepted renowned designs. Furthermore, most women prefer leather gladiator sandals cause of the way the leather straps hug our legs, but as you would expect, they are more expensive. For the same price you could easily get a couple pairs of cheap gladiator shoes. I guess it depends on our tastes and budget.
You can find gladiator shoes in almost every color, the most common being black (not a big surprise) followed by gold, silver, white and brown. During the summer, most women prefer gold gladiator shoes instead of black since, according to the fashion bible we need to wear bright colors when it’s sunny outside!

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Vocabulary:

1. gladiator (n) 羅馬戰士；鬥劍者

gladiator shoes 羅馬鞋

2. trend (n) 趨勢,傾向;時尚

3.trendy (a) 時髦的;流行的 (n) 趕時髦的人;追求時髦者trendiest (a) 最時髦的 (trend的最高級)

4. comfortable (a) 使人舒服的,舒適的

ex: a comfortable climate 宜人的氣候

5. stay in line with fashion (v-ph) 跟上流行

6. durable (a) 經久的,耐用的

7. stylish (a) 時髦的,流行的;漂亮的

8.extravagant (a) 奢侈的;浪費的

9. footwear (n) (總稱)鞋類

10. high heels (n-ph) 高跟鞋 / heel (n) (鞋,襪等的)後跟

11. leather (n) (a) 皮革；皮的;皮革製的

12. sandal (n) 涼鞋；拖鞋；(古代希臘羅馬人穿的)帶子鞋

13. original (a) 最初的,本來的;原始的

14. historic (a) 歷史上著名的;歷史上有重大意義

15. renowned (a) 有名的;有聲譽的 (famous; well-known)

16. strap (n) 帶子;皮帶;布帶;金屬帶

17. gold (a) 金色的

18. silver (a) 銀色的,有銀色光澤的

19. budget (n) 預算;預算費;生活費,經費

20. the fashion bible (n-ph) 時尚聖經 (指時尚流行界依據的經典規範)

Quiz:
True or False:

1.The best choice for women who want comfortable shoes for their feet while staying in line with fashion are the gladiator shoes.

2. Gladiator shoes can’t last too long.

3. There are only black and white gladiator shoes.

4. There are only flat gladiator shoes with no heels.

5. According to the fashion bible we need to wear bright colors when it’s sunny outside.