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Grandfather Hits the Big Time after Modeling Women’s Clothes Online
 
 
Read and choose the correct transformation of the word in brackets from the drop-down box. 
 
When Chinese grandfather Liu Xianping was jokingly asked to wear outfits 1.   (design) by his granddaughter, Lv Ting, for a fashion shoot, he thought. he was doing nothing more than helping her store. Little did the 72-year-old realise that photos of him in women’s clothing would go  2.  (virus) overnight. One online  3.   (admire) even wrote: ‘ I'm jealous - He has such a good figure, especially those legs.' 
 
Everything may have begun as a joke, but the  4.    ( public) caused a huge increase in sales of  his granddaughter's Yuekou label.

Nothing seems to faze Liu Xianping as he strikes poses wearing miniskirts, tights, lace, capes and scarves.

 
Countering  5.   (critic),  Mr Liu said: ‘Why is it  6.   (accept) for someone like me to wear women’s clothes? Modelling for the store is helping my granddaughter and I have nothing to lose. We were very  7.  (excite) the day of the shooting. I’m  getting old and all I care about now is being happy.’
 

Miss Ting defended her grandfather, ‘We thought it  would be a lot of fun so we just started shooting to see what would happen.   He was fabulous - are real 8.  (nature). ’

 
Weighing a little over 50kg,  Mr Lui’s slender figure and long legs certainly do justice to his granddaughter’s  9.   (fashion) designs and has demonstrated that you're never too old to look and feel great.
 
 
Look at the following fashion related idioms and try to guess the meanings:
 

1. came into fashion

 - to live on less money than usual

2. dressed to kill

 - become fashionable

3. tighten one`s belt

 - fit perfectly

4. fill (someone`s) shoes

 - be very generous even though you don't have much

5. fit like a glove

 - dressed very well or very sexily

6. pull up one`s socks

 - somebody who's nervous or can't sit still

7. go out of fashion/style

 - make a better effort to do something

8. give (someone) the shirt off one's back

 - take somebody's place and do that person's job

9. have ants in one`s pants

 - become unfasionable
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