Sentence examples of "modes" in French with translation "fashion"

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Quand on les observe à une demi-douzaine d'années, ou plus, de distance, même les plus belles modes nous paraissent grotesques, voire disgracieuses. When seen in the perspective of half-a-dozen years or more, the best of our fashions strike us as grotesque, if not unsightly.
La langue française, d’ailleurs, est une eau pure que les écrivains maniérés n’ont jamais pu et ne pourront jamais troubler. Chaque siècle a jeté dans ce courant limpide ses modes, ses archaïsmes prétentieux et ses préciosités, sans que rien surnage de ces tentatives inutiles, de ces efforts impuissants. La nature de cette langue est d’être claire, logique et nerveuse. Elle ne se laisse pas affaiblir, obscurcir ou corrompre. The French language, by the way, is a clear stream that affected writers have never been, and will never be able to ripple. Each century has thrown in this limpid current its fashions, its pretentious archaisms and its preciousness, without anything surfacing from those useless attempts, those powerless efforts. The nature of this language is to be clear, logical and nervous. It won't let itself be weakened, obscured or corrupted.
Ne suis pas la mode. Don't follow the fashion.
C'est la dernière mode. This is the latest fashion.
La mode vieillit et passe. Fashions grow old and die.
L'aérobic est à la mode. Aerobics is all the fashion.
Elle connaît bien la dernière mode. She knows much about recent fashions.
Ses vêtements sont passés de mode. His clothes are out of fashion.
Les minijupes sont passées de mode. Miniskirts have gone out of fashion.
Elle est esclave de la mode. She's a fashion slave.
Les filles estiment beaucoup la mode. Girls think much of fashion.
Les jupes longues sont à la mode. Long skirts are in fashion.
La mode n'est pas ma spécialité. Fashion is not my specialty.
Elle est une esclave de la mode. She is a slave of fashion.
Cette mode a connu de beaux jours. This fashion has had its day.
Les jeans délavés sont encore à la mode. Faded jeans are still in fashion.
Le rouge n'est plus à la mode. Red is out of fashion.
Les robes longues sont restées à la mode. Long dresses stayed in fashion.
Elle est au courant de la dernière mode. She knows much about recent fashions.
Les jupes courtes ne sont plus à la mode. Short skirts are already out of fashion.
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