Clothes and fashion
- About how much money do you spend
on clothes a year?
- Do you like shopping for new
clothes?
- Do you often buy new clothes?
- Do you read fashion magazines?
- Do you sometimes wear a hat?
- Do you think it is important to
wear fashionable clothes?
- (Do you think it is important to
be in fashion?)
- Do you wear jewelry?
- If so, what kind of jewelry do
you wear?
- How often do you wear jewelry?
- Do you wear the same color
clothes now that you wore ten years ago?
- Do you wear the same size clothes
this year as you wore last year?
- Do you think people feel
different when they wear different clothes?
- Have you ever made your own
clothes?
- If so, what did you make?
- Do you often make your own
clothes?
- How many pairs of gloves do you
have?
- What are some of the strangest
fashions you have seen?
- What colors do you think look
good on you?
- What colors do you think look
good on your mother?
- What did you wear yesterday?
- What do you think of body
piercing?
- Do you have pierced ears?
- Do you know anyone with a
pierced nose?
- Would you ever pierce your
tongue?
- What do you think of people who
dye their hair green?
- What do you think of women who
wear high heel shoes?
- Do you think high heel shoes are
bad for a person's health?
- What fashions that you see today
do you think will be out of fashion within two years?
- What is your shoe size?
- What kind of clothes are in
fashion now?
- What kind of clothes do you
usually wear?
- What's the most expensive piece
of clothing you have ever bought?
- What's your favorite color for
shoes?
- When was the last time you got
dressed up?
- Why?
- How often do you get dressed up?
- Do you like to get dressed up?
- Where are some good stores to buy
clothes in this area?
- Where do you usually buy clothes?
- Would you like to be a fashion
model?
- Questions on Styles, Clothing and
Fashion-based Stereotypes
- What would you think of a women
who cut off all her hair and went around bald as a fashion statement?
- What do you think of a man who
is bald for fashion's sake?
- What do you think of women who
wear short mini-skirts?
- What do you think of people who
always and only wear black?
- What do you think of people with
tattoos?
- Do you have a tattoo?
- Do you know someone with a
tattoo?
- What do you think of people with
body piercings?
- Do you have pierced ears?
- Would you pierce other parts of
your body?
- What would you think of a high
school student who always wore very conservative clothes?
- What type of clothing do you
wear when you are angry and you want to express yourself?
- What colors do you choose to
wear when you are happy?
- Would you dress the same as you
do in your country if you went to America for a visit?
- Do you dress the same when you
are depressed as you do when you are very happy?
- In what ways do you dress
differently?
- If you went out with a group of
high school friends, would you dress differently then if you went out
with your grandmother and her friends?
- In what ways does your
Grandmother dress differently then you?
- When you get old do you think
you will dress like your grandmother or grandfather?
- Would you ever wear dreadlocks?
- What do you think of the people
who wear them?
- Have you ever worn your hair
braided in small braids.
- Did anyone look at you
differently because of it?
- Would you ever wear contacts to
change your eye color?
- What is the difference in the
people who choose to wear contacts and the people who choose to were
glasses?
- What do you think about women
who don't wear earings?
- What do you think about men who
wear earings?
- What do you think of women who
do?
- Is it possible for women to wear
too much make-up?
- When is a person wearing to
much make-up?
- What do you think of men who
wear make-up?
- Is it possible to be beautiful
without wearing any make-up, earings or other accessories?
- Do fashionable clothes really
change the way a person looks?
- What differences have you
noticed in the fashions here and in your country?
- What do you think about
secondhand clothes?
- Why do you think people buy
secondhand clothes?
- Have you ever been to a store
that sells secondhand clothes?
- Have you ever bought secondhand
clothers?
- Would you buy secondhand
clothes?
- When and where did you buy an
article of clothing you're wearing right now? Why did you choose it?
- What would you think if the
mother of the groom wore black at a wedding?
- What would you think if a bride
wore red?
- Should a bride's dress be long
or do you think it could be the length of a regular skirt?
- What items of clothing do you
consider provocative?
- (It would be interesting to see
if foreigners perceive their own clothing to be provocative or not, but
to get them to admit that, the question should be phrased - would it be
so in American or Canada,
etc.)
- What do you think of men
wearing high heels?
- What do you think of women
wearning high heels?
- Is there a stigma attached to
people who buy no-name (no brand) clothing?
- Are some people more fashion
conscious than others? What types/groups of people?
- Have you ever bought
pirate/imitation brand clothing?