Shopping for the Real You: Ten Essential Steps to a Better Wardrobe for Every Woman - Fashionistas, Fashion-phobes and the Over Fifty
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (949 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0970867425 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 165 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Includes more than 50 full-color illustrations, an index, plus a color and style shopping resource guide. Informative, practical and highly entertaining, Shopping for the Real You provides a series of eye-training tools from some of the world's experts in the field of personal style. Edited by Douglas Gorney; Nancy Sherman, illustrations by Susan Tate Porcaro.. Told with clarity and wit, this is a primer on the fundamental principles of color analysis, style typing, proportion, balance, and body shape. The book includes charts, quizzes and summaries making the material very accessible
Takes the randomness out of shopping Cal teacher "Shopping for the Real You" both expanded and focused the colors and styles I would normally seek out at a store. I am over 50 and for some time have felt what was in my closet wasn't connecting with how I looked or felt anymore, but not having time to browse and analyze, I was not changing what I bought. This book, written in a breezy, friendly manner but with very specific focuses in each chapter, showed me how to shop with awareness of my own style by giving visual and descriptive guides. After reading the book and shopping, I came home wit. From Black and White to Technicolor Julie Fleischer Living and working in Hollywood, I was the victim of “ant” syndrome. Meaning I, along with everyone else in this town dressed in black making any gathering look like a bunch of ants had infiltrated it. I justified my uninspired dress by thinking, “I’m going to be on the set all day, and I don’t want to get caught on camera.” Or, “Black doesn’t show dirt as much as colors do.” Or, “I need to be hip and fit in.” But it was laziness and fear of wearing the wrong color that brought . Kathy Patterson said Five Stars. well written and full of good info