CLOTHES / KLEIDER

You must avoid all school-inappropriate websites and clothing items such as lingerie, underwear, swimwear, etc.

  • Look for similarities and differences between clothing in the US and in Germany
  • Note the strange mixture of English and German on most sites
  • Look for Clothing vocabulary, size and colors, when possible
  • Look at prices - the price in U.S. dollars will be a bit less than in Euros
  • Find out the prices in dollars by using this converter: http://www.xe.net/currency/
  • Images of Euros - send a postcard, too!

    CLOTHING WEBSITES

  • What's your shoe size? See if your shoes have the European sizes on them
  • Men's and Women's Clothing Sizes
  • Otto online shopping and a related internet exercise in German.
  • Quelle online shoppng - click on Einkaufswelt (shopping world)
  • Sports items (caps, t-shirts, backpacks) from Beanie Sports, an official No Fear shop.
  • WalMart Deutschland - click on Angebot
  • Lands End: click on men (Herren) or women (Damen)
  • Way cool! Create and dress your own virtual model. Click on Mein Model at the top
  • Eddie Bauer German websites.
  • Shopping at KaDeWe in Berlin: Kaufhaus des Westens
  • HugoBoss world-famous designer. Click on Marken clothes and fragrances.
  • Joop! another famous German designer
  • German Fashion - click on Young Fashion/Jeans and Sportswear

    Women's Fashions

  • Orsay - hip German fashions for women/girls: try Trends
  • Underground-Fashion - crazy clothes - see Accessories: Schuhe, Hosen, T-shirts, etc!
  • Brigitte - YoungMiss.de Fashions and style
  • Beauty and More: make-up, clothes, accessories, shoes, jewelry, magazines, fitness.

    Games

  • Dress the little Bavarian guy from Hendl and the K-Swiss tennis game.

    Link Collections

  • Great Clothes/Kleider links collection by David Nutting.
  • Fashion and Clothes from About.Com's German culture site.
  • Shopping and department store websites
  • http://www.yahoo.de/: many categories and topics for clothes
  • Describing whether you like various clothing items and describing them.

    Traditional Dress

  • German traditional outfits - dresses (Dirndl) and Lederhosen.
  • Deutsches Haus: German hats, heritage lace products and much more.

    Shoes / Footwear

  • Adidas Sportswear and Puma
  • Birkenstock sandals -click on Katalog
  • Other German footwear makers.

    Watches

  • Extremely High-priced German watches
  • German watches from Glashütte - A. Lange and Sons: hand-made, long tradition, expensive! View watches and zoom in on the pieces.
  • More on German mechanical watches and their steep prices The History of Watches and time-telling devices and another history
  • The Gruen company: German-American watch making Money in Germany
  • Information and pictures of the new Euro
  • Welcome to the EURO - What's it look like? What's it worth?
  • Universal Currency Converter
  • Currency conversion from Virtual Tourist.
  • Money and metric conversions from DZT.

    Vocabulary Help

  • Dictionaries and vocabulary help.
  • Enter a website address (URL) and get a Free Rapid Translations.
  • Instant Translation from Alta Vista. Cut and paste. Helpful, but with accuracy problems.

    EXERCISE

    Buy complete outfits for
    1. Exercise or playing a sport. For example, find everything you need to play soccer (uniform, shoes, ball) or hockey (stick, skates, etc.) or jogging (shoes, shorts, T-shirt)
    2. Daily wear (shirt, jeans/pants, shoes, socks.
    3. Watches, wallets, jewelry, cologne/perfume
    4. Dress-up, dinner, a date, etc. (suit and tie, dress shoes, dresses, blouses, etc.)

    Assignment

  • List all items, sizes (Größe) colors (Farben) and prices (DM and converted into US Dollars)
  • Which items are cheaper here or there? Look at clothes, electronics, jewelry,etc.
  • Find out price in dollars by using converters:
    1. Universal Currency Converter
    2. Currency conversion from Virtual Tourist.
    3. Money and metric conversions from DZT.

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