Sentence examples of "devenir à la mode" in French
Elle a raccommodé ses vieilles fringues pour qu'elles aient l'air plus à la mode.
She altered her old clothes to make them look more fashionable.
La mode d'il y a trente ans est revenue à la mode.
Fashions of thirty years ago have come back in style.
Les membres de chaque classe acceptent comme idéal de respectabilité le mode de vie à la mode dans la classe juste au-dessus de la leur, et ils appliquent leurs énergies afin d'atteindre cet idéal.
The members of each stratum accept as their ideal of decency the scheme of life in vogue in the next higher stratum, and bend their energies to live up to that ideal.
En cette époque démocratique qui est la nôtre, les hommes réclament ce qui est majoritairement considéré comme étant le meilleur, faisant abstraction de leurs affections. Ils veulent ce qui est cher plutôt que ce qui est raffiné, ce qui est à la mode plutôt que ce qui est beau.
In this democratic age of ours men clamour for what is popularly considered the best, regardless of their feelings. They want the costly, not the refined; the fashionable, not the beautiful.
Il semblerait que les bikinis soient à la mode cette année.
It seems that bikinis are "in" this year.
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