BBC 6分钟英语 什么是scumbro？

From BBC, learning English. Hello, and welcome to Six Minute English.

I'm Catherine, and hello, I'm Rob.

Now, rob, do you ever buy things at a charity shop?

Yes, I do. They are a great place to pick up a bargain.

And I also

donate items to charity shops too.

And a charity shop, by the way,

is a shop where people take their unwanted items and then the shop sells them and makes money.

And the money and to charity, exactly that's good to hear, rob but because donating, that's giving money or goods to an organization, helps charities raise money.

And you might be interested to know that dressing up in secondhand clothes is back in the fashion well, sort of.

And that's what we're discussing today.

Is looking like your dressing in charity shop clothes a new fashion statement.

It should be interesting about 1st.

Catherine, aren't you going to set me a question to answer?

Not a 2nd hand one, please.

It's a brand new question today.

Rob for you and the listeners at home.

Do you know when the 1st official charity shop opened its stores in the UK?

Was it in A, 1928? B, 1948, or C, 1968?

But I'll go for 1948. Okay?

And we'll find out the answer later.

But now, back to our discussion about charity shops and fashion.

And there's a new look in town, which some people are calling Scumbro.

Scumbro combines the word scummy, which means dirty and messy, with the word bro, which is an informal way of referring to a boy or a man.

So scumbro is a fashion for men, but women can adopt it too.

Hmm, it's a bit of insulting name.

And here's the odd thing about this new fashion style, being scumbro is about buying expensive designer brands that look like they're from a charity shop.

Very odd. Well, it's something Amber Graphland knows about.

She's the fashion and beauty director for the Daily Mirror newspaper, and she's been telling BBC radio for you and yours program, all about it.

So how did this trend start?

Well, I think the name came from a Vanity Fair article, and I think, justin Bieber, the likes of Jona Hill to thank for this, look, pete Davidson, who's actually the fiancee of Ariana Grande.

He is definitely one of the founding fathers of scombro.

And I think, like most of these trends, they started by celebrities, and then they, I mean, look, it's been picked up by everybody, by the sounds.

OK? So the fashion magazine Vanity Fair invented the name, but the trend has spread because celebrities have been dressing in this style, yes, and Amber mentioned a number of celebrities who are the founding fathers of the trend.

That's a term used to describe people who start an idea or an organization.

Yes, the trend has been picked up or copied by people who you might describe as fashion victims, people who have to follow the latest fashion trends.

Well, rob, I'm no fashion victim, but I say, maybe one day I might want to look scumbro or maybe it's come this.

So how exactly should I dress?

OK, well, let's hear from Ambergraphland again.

How does she describe the characteristics of this fashion trend?

It's all about rain these oversized clothes that are overpriced.

And I think it's not just about looking like you've rummaged in a teenager dressing up box.

These are very, very expensive items.

You mentioned, the label's proud of Assarchi Gucci Supreme.

While. It's basically about looking simultaneously like you made no effort.

But the underlying thing is that you do need to see that the effort has gone in there.

Wow. This fashion trend does involve a lot of effort.

It's not just about looking messy, like you've rummaged and a teenagers dressing up box.

Rummaging is when you search for something that's mixed up in lots of other things.

No, don't be rummaging. The trick seems to be to look like you've not made any effort, but at the same time you're showing that you have made an effort.

And that's the meaning of the word, simultaneously doing one thing at the same time as another thing.

And I guess by showing you've made an effort, you wear designer labels, showing you've paid lots of money.

The issue here is clothes from charity shops are supposed to be cheap.

Some people even buy these clothes because it's all they can afford.

But the irony here is some people are choosing to pay lots and lots of money to look like they're wearing 2nd hand clothes, and the charity shops aren't making any money from it.

Well, if you're a fashion victim, it's something you have to do.

And there's one thing I have to do now, and that's give you the answer to today's quiz question.

So I asked you earlier when the 1st official charity shop opened its doors in the UK.

And I said, 1948. And you are correct.

This week, rob Wellden, the very 1st shop run by the charity Oxfam, opened its doors in Oxford

in 1948 as a direct result of an appeal launched to help post war Greece.

Very interesting, right? Well, let's remind ourselves of some of today's vocabulary, starting with the word donating, which means giving goods or money to an

organization or charity. Then we mentioned founding fathers, a term used to describe people who start an idea or an organization.

We also mentioned that Catherine was no fashion victim, a person who has to follow the latest fashion trends.

Rummaging was a word that described searching for something that's mixed up with lots of other things.

And then we had simultaneously, which means doing one thing at the same time as doing something else.

Well, you can simultaneously listen to this program and look at our website if you like.

The web address is bbc learning english dot com.

But that's all we have time for now.

Join us again next time. Good Bye.

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