It is ok... | Dress Your Best: The Complete Guide to Finding the Style That's Right for Your Body

book: Dress Your Best: The Complete Guide to Finding the Style That's Right for Your Body | Clinton Kelly, Stacy London

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	• Dress Your Best: The Complete Guide to Finding the Style That's Right for Your Body Clinton Kelly, Stacy London Three Rivers Press, 2005 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 112 reviews view larger image
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The best fashion book I've ever owned!

Hurrah! Stacy and Clinton have given us a way to take them with us whenever we go shopping! I was browsing in the bookstore not too long ago and lo and behold, there was Dress Your Best, right next to What Not to Wear, by Trinny and Susanna. I must confess I have to agree with the previous reviewer, Stacy and Clinton did a superior job, especially by using real women (and men!) as models for the different body types. When I need to get my wardrobe staples, Dress Your Best goes with me, to make sure I get the right style pants, shirts and dresses, as well as outerwear and underpinnings. The weekly show shows me what trends are workable on my body type and how to work them into my wardrobe as well, without spending a ton. My mother complains I'll never be on the show, because I'm always put together so well! Thank you, thank you Stacy and Clinton for putting together such a wonderful, helpful book and showing us that everybody can be sexy and sophisticated no matter what our size or body shape. I hope your show will be on for years to come, and I hope you'll write another book.

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It is ok...

This book features many real people with different body shapes (men and women), and shows you how they should dress for work, casual and formal. The good thing about it is that it photographs real people instead of using drawings, however this is also one of its limitations.

It is most likely that the reader, no matter much how closely she/he can identify with one of the models in the book, her/his body shape is still very different from that model! Myself for example, I am a petite, I am an hourglass shape (with shoulders and bottom same measurement, bust slightly smaller and a well-defined waist) and a size 0. The "matching" models would be either 1) Petite, Curvy, who is a size 6 to 8; or 2) a Petit, not curvy, who is a size 0 but a complete rectangle without curves...

There isn't much information given to each body shape either. Although it gives you reasons for why a model is dressed such ways, it does not state alternatives. For example, it says that you should wear cap sleeve to make your shoulders look broader, but it does not say what other sleeves you can wear; or it says as a petite size 0 (not curvy), you should wear white matching suit for work (as opposed to black) to increase impact, but it does not say what shapes of jackets, skirts or pants you can wear, and what colors other than white.

In conclusion, I will suggest "The Science of Sexy" by Bradley Bayou (see my other review). It is the best of the best!

Lucy Chen

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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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