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Dress Your Best: The Complete Guide to Finding the Style That's Right for Your Body
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Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 391
EAN: 9780307236715
ISBN: 0307236714
Label: Three Rivers Press
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2005-09-13
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Release Date: 2005-09-13
Studio: Three Rivers Press
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The 8 million fans of TLC’s hottest show, What Not to Wear, know it as the place to go for real-life fashion advice. Now the show’s hosts, Clinton Kelly and Stacy London, offer spot-on fashion wisdom—with an attitude—in this fully illustrated, authoritative, and irreverent fashion guide to dressing your best for every occasion. Clinton and Stacy’s surefire method for boosting appearance rests on their belief that we can all win admiring glances by selecting clothes that play up our positives and create a balanced body shape. In Dress Your Best, Clinton and Stacy match a wide range of female and male body types with the perfect work, casual, and evening attire, showing you exactly how to make your best parts “work” for you.
Dressing tips for 26 body types!
Features 18 women and 8 men: bigger on top, bigger on bottom, a little extra in the middle, not curvy, extra curvy, small-framed, athletic, and more!
Whether you’re searching for a way to accentuate your assets, puzzling over the right print pattern for your frame, or just looking for a solution to the dilemma “What do I need to wear to look fabulous?” you’ll find here the universal tips, dos and don’ts, seasonal alternatives, and must-haves that will deliver the answers. Dress Your Best is certain to become the standard by which all other fashion guides are measured.
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Summary: For Hard to Fit Types
Comment: I am a big fan's of Stacey and Clinton and their approach to fashion. This book is a good way to have their advice handy when shopping.
And better yet, there is a product directory. No matter what your size, you are sure to get some good pointers from this book
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Summary: Don't even bother!
Comment: What a stupid book. The entire book is poorly laid out and the information given for each body type is vague at best. For example, I'm considered curvy, average height and the book tells me to wear "a straight dress for an hourglass shape to accentuate curves." How the hell does a STRAIGHT dress do that? It doesn't even get into skintone and color which is essential!
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Summary: Good style guide with a few caveats
Comment: Stacy and Clinton have provided a useful guide to help both men and women max out their style quotients.
That being said, bear in mind that the authors wanted this book to be as helpful to as many people as possible. As a result: even though this book is over two hundred pages long, only a few pages (eight on average, my rough guess) could be devoted to any one unique physical type. So if you're slim and petite, eight pages of this book will be very useful to you. The rest won't. Tall and stocky? Again, eight pages of this book should be right down your alley, but that's all. Muscular and medium height? Eight pages, that's it. And so on...
Another quibble with this book is that it never really touches on the subject of matching the right color to your skin tone. We've all seen on the show where the authors will tell their makeover candidate, "Don't wear this color, it brings out the yellow in your skin more, it washes you out. THIS color, on the other hand, looks GREAT with your skin tone. Notice the difference, how it brings out the color in your cheeks and your eyes?"
You won't get that type of counseling here. So if you're wondering whether burgundy will go better with your complexion than red, or if shade X works better with your skin tone than shade Y, you're on your own. (Hopefully, future editions of this book will rectify this.)
Those criticisms aside, this book is an entertaining read and provides good, clear, easy-to-follow instructions on how to improve your wardrobe, regardless of what your body type is.
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Summary: Dress Your Best
Comment: The book is fantastic. I sent it to five other people and they all liked it very much. Even my husband found useful information in the men's 'tall' section.
Grace Lundergan
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Summary: Good book to get ideas and concepts for your wardrobe...
Comment: This book was full of good concepts and ideas for building of one's wardrobe. I would recommend it to anyone looking to upgrade their style and have a fresher, fabulous look.
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