Describe a person who wears unusual clothes

IELTS Cue Card/ Candidate Task Card 484 with Model Answer:

Describe a person who wears unusual clothes.

You should say:

• who this person is
• what type of dresses he/she wears
• why his/her dresses are unusual

and explain what you think about the way he/she dresses.

[You will have to talk about the topic for one to two minutes. You have one minute to think about what you are going to say. You can make some notes to help you if you wish.]

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Model Answer:
I am more of a traditional kind of person, who likes traditional outfits. But, to some people, of course, traditional clothing can be “boring”, and so, they choose to wear kinds of clothes which can easily be considered as “unusual”, sometimes "very fashionable" or even sometimes a bit bizarre! Today, I would like to talk about one such person who wears such uncommon and unusual clothes whom I know closely.

This rather unusual clothing wearer is a local grocery shopkeeper in my area. I have known this person - who is currently in his early 40s, for a long time which goes back to my high school days. In the beginning, when he was a car driver (driving the car of a local medical doctor in my area) there was nothing usual about his clothing or fashion style. But, once he changed his profession to become a shopkeeper, he started to change his outfits slowly and slowly. He started this trend by wearing an unusually large “hat” that was made of a palm tree. Then, later, he started to wear a very long, half-sleeve shirt that had no buttons. In fact, the shirt was very much like an “apron” of a medical doctor except that it had no buttons, no pockets and no “collar”. To make that “half-shirt” look even more unusual, he painted all kinds of scary bugs and insects all over it. And as far as his lower part body garment is concerned, he wears only trousers or pants that are made from only thick fabrics. Oh, by the way, the story about his unusual clothing would remain incomplete if I don’t mention how he wears necklaces that are made of small “wooden blocks”.

I don’t really know what to think about the way he dresses, but all I can say is that he uses such type of unusual clothing because he feels comfortable in them. Besides, it is also possible that he thinks that it is also possible to make a “fashion statement” by wearing cheap and ordinary things since all of his clothing is rather cheap and ordinary but very unusual.