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Grandfather Hits the Big Time after Modeling Women�s Clothes Online
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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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