at UNIQULO store
These days, lots of shops have a "winter sales". So, I went shopping yesterday. When I am trying the "ultra light down” in UNIQLO store. Since this down jacket is super thin and light, some people wear as an inner under their coats recently. Also I am considering to wear it under my brand new coat made of wool. When I was trying the jacket in front of a mirror, a Chinese woman approached and asked me " Where did you get this?" At the first, I didn't understand what she said. Soon I noticed she is mentioning about my wool coat. Because I am wearing that down jacket under my coat, she thought my wool coat is the UNIQLO product. I said to her "Oh, the other shop." Then, she said "The other.....UNIQLO???" I continued "No, No, No. It's my own coat!" Finally, she got understand. She said "Oh, I see. It's Kirei desu ne（きれいですね; meaning "beautiful"）." in Japanese. We laughed together and she went away.
To tell the truth, my brand new coat is much more high-quality which can't get in UNIQLO stores, but it is interesting experience, haha.
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at UNIQULO store
These days, lots of shops have "winter sales". So I went shopping yesterday. I tried on the "ultra light down” in the UNIQLO store. Recently, since this down jacket is super thin and light, some people wear it as an inner layer under their coats. I am also considering wearing it under my brand new coat made of wool. When I was trying the jacket on in front of a mirror, a Chinese woman approached and asked me " Where did you get this?" At first, I didn't understand what she said. Soon I noticed she was mentioning my wool coat. Because I was wearing the down jacket under my coat, she thought my wool coat was the UNIQLO product. I said to her "Oh, the other shop." Then, she said "The other.....UNIQLO???" I continued "No, No, No. It's my own coat!" Finally, she understood. She said "Oh, I see. It's Kirei desu ne（きれいですね; meaning "beautiful"）." in Japanese. We laughed together and she went away.To tell the truth, my brand new coat is much higher quality than you can get in UNIQLO stores, but it was an interesting experience, haha.
LOVE THIS! Great story. Really vivid and real!!
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at the UNIQULO store
These days, lots of shops have a "winter sales". So, I went shopping yesterday. When I am trying the I tried on the "ultra light down” jacket in a UNIQLO store. Since this down jacket is super thin and light, recently* some people wear it as an inner layer under their coats recently. Also I am also** considering to wear it under my brand new wool coat made of wool. When I was trying on*** the jacket in front of a mirror, a Chinese woman approached and asked me " Where did you get this?" At the first, I didn't understand what she said was saying. Soon I noticed Then I realized she is mentioning about was referring to my wool coat. Because I am wearing that down jacket under my coat, she thought my wool coat is the a UNIQLO product. I said to her "Oh, the other shop." Then, she said "The other.....UNIQLO???" I continued "No, No, No. It's my own coat!" Finally, she got came to**** understand. She said "Oh, I see. It's Kirei desu ne（きれいですね; meaning "beautiful"）." in Japanese. We laughed together and she went away.To tell the truth, my brand new coat is much more high-quality which can't than what you can get in UNIQLO stores, but it is an interesting experience, haha.
Good story. So . . . did you buy the ultra-light down jacket? I love ユニクロ stores. The clothes are inexpensive, they fit me well, and 若くないけど、気も違わないですよ！ There are many ユニクロ stores in the US now.
* Instead of "recently" you can say "lately" which is a good translation of 最近。
** "Also I am considering" is 「または考えている」, but "I am also considering" is 「私も考えている」.
*** When shopping for clothes, we use the phrase "trying on" or the verb "to try on"
**** "came to . . ." is a way of saying ～になる。
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I, see. I agree with you! We got our own hand-made dictionary, right? Exchanges of languages are quite interesting!
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Awesome answer! Thank you so much, Rika! ^_^. Based on your examples, it seems like the nuances of these 3 English words fit best like this, then:
うつくしい-beautiful (it's a pretty dramatic word in English)
きれい-attractive (in the sense of "visually attractive", not an "attractive job offer"; when applied to people, the implication is that the person is an adult)
かわいい-cute (visually or behaviorally pleasing when applied to a child, or to an adult but drawing attention *away* from the adult-ness of the adult, or for an animal)
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きれい and うつくしい are very close meaning. But I guess うつくしい is more formal, polite, or kind of overstated word. We use うつくしい, for example, for a gorgeous castle, valuable accessories, or super beautiful lady! きれい is more conversational word than うつくしい. So we also use きれい for castle, accessories, and people.
"Pretty" is "かわいい" in Japanese. We sometimes categorize women "きれい系" or "かわいい系". "系" means "like" or "-ly" "-sh". I think きれい系 women are adult, intellectual, enchanted. "かわいい系" women are pretty, cute, charming, lovely, feeling like you love pets.
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