Style Clinic – How to Look Fabulous All the Time, at Any Age, for Any Occasion
Fashion’s best-kept secrets from London’s leading fashion authority
Why is it that simply getting dressed in the morning can be a bewildering experience? Last month’s must-haves date you faster than a frizzy perm, and before the credit-card bill is paid, some expert is telling you your latest fashion fantasy is now “so last season.” The more you buy, the less it seems you have to wear.
Knowing what works and what doesn’t, how and when to shop, how best to dress your body shape, and how to work an accessory like a styling pro will propel you on your way to fashion nirvana: the effortlessly chic set. With timeless tips and practical advice, fashion editor Paula Reed proves that you don’t have to have a big budget, a whole new wardrobe, or the latest fad to look great.
Transform your life with these expert lessons
- When to spend: what is worth a budget blowout and what can be a cheap buy.
- How to find the fabulous in every figure: dress thin, tall, and timeless . . . promise!
- Secrets of the successful shopper: how to know if it’s eek! or chic!
- The essential proportions of the perfect pants, the jacket you’ll love forever, and dresses to die for.
- And much more—on coats, suits, shirts, shoes, bags, and essential accessories. Here you’ll find everything else you need to release your individual style.
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I glanced at this book in Barnes and Noble before purchasing it on line through Amazon, just so I had an idea what I was in for. And I was in for a good time. I love the book. It’s size, the pictures (photo’s), the information, and the content.
‘Style Clinic’ is easy to read and highly informative. I like the layout, you can pick it up and glance through, or you can read it from cover to cover. I collect books on style and how to improve your wardrobe and looks and in my opinion, ‘Style Clinic’ is a definate keeper.
Enjoy.
Rating: 5 / 5
I had high hope hope and expectation for this book when I bought it, partly because of the author and partly because I was on a beauty phase of my own. I was disappointed.
There is good information in this book for sure and for any woman who might need some direction in planning a new closet of her own. but for people who have at least read a few magazines or fashion how-to book before than it becomes pretty much redundant.
Add into that, the organizing of the book make it confusing and not a little bit user-friendly, especially for people who might want to get a little deeper in customizing their own style based on their body types and personality.
Further more, the pictures and clothes used in this book just spell BLAH (big one). I got the feeling that the author was writing for some kind of old style, extremely conservative woman who was just beginning her own journey of finding something beautiful in life. The pictures of celebrities were hardly what you’d call outstanding (and in some an out right crime, 70 year-old looking woman in a spaghetti strap floral dress. I’m not against beauty and style at any age but at some point you have to say, please, lady, that’s too much skin!!). In my opinion, fashion and style is fun. You’re supposed to enjoy it (after all it is part of yourself you’re discovering here). But I didn’t find anything such in this book. There are no colors except for the suffocating sea of neutral, black, and white (repetition!!!), and I didn’t find any section dedicated to finding your best-looking color or how to put colors together in your wardrobe either (which is a must if you want to go any where near “fabulous”)
To wrap it up, unless your closet has just been hit by a mini hurricane and you want to reconstruct a new one, DON’T BOTHER. You’re probably getting off more as ‘conservative, safe, librarian lady (with no sexy librarian vibe)’ than ‘fabulous at any time, age, or occasion)
Rating: 3 / 5
As many other reviewers have stated before me, the photos in this book are fabulous and the reader will not be dissappointed in them.
The only reason that I gave this book four stars rather than five is because I was so frustrated in that when the author showed an outfit or an item, she never stated the brand!… YES,true, the author did provide the readers with a long list of stores that the items COULD BE bought at,(maybe), however, there is absolutely no way for the reader to know which of the MANY many stores the author listed in the index, carried the actual products photographed in this book.
I’ll give you some examples: … she showed a variety of jeans that fit each body-type. Beautiful ideas! Well, some of those jeans were wonderful looking,for sure, but since no BRAND was ever given,then there was no way for the reader to go out and buy the jeans that fit her body type. I was so frustrated, and I’m sure that when you browse this book, you will see exactly what I’m talking about. Well, maybe that is not a big thing with some readers or maybe some readers are so totally “brand-savvy”, that they can look at 200 products and immediately tell which maker or brand makes them. But honestly, most people in the “real world” (except maybe Hollywood stylists) could never do that. People like us need to know not only the stores that carry such products, but also, it would be nice to know the brands, so that a shopper can go directly to that store listed in the index (whether on the internet or in person).
Another example are the shoes: This book pictured some of the most gorgeous shoes imaginable, but the photos were taken so that the insides were not visible and thus, the reader could not tell who made them. Aside from the obvious Christian Loubitins with the obvious red soles, how can a reader know which platforms or pumps or sandals were made by which brand?
I’ll give you another exmaple: I also own the book by Isaac Mizrahi and the best thing about that book is that each and every product shown in Isaac’s book is given credit. Thus, not only does the reader know which stores carry the products Isaac mentions (eg: the photographed shoes, jeans,coats,purses,ect), but also Isaac names all the stores in the USA that carry every single product that he photographed in his book.
Thus, I wish that the author of “STYLE CLINIC” would have done the same.
PS: In the back of this book, each of the PHOTOGRAPHERS of the Hollywood starlets (photographed in this book) were given credit. So basically, the only credits given in the back of this book were the photographers of the starlets OR the magazine for which the photographers worked for.
Thus, to piggy-back what I said before, I only wish the author had given credit to the products’ brand names, along with the photographers & magazine names.
Rating: 4 / 5
I love fashion and beauty books, although this book is very beautiful ( cover, photos etc) I was not impressed by the tips on the book. The information seemed to be too generic. Just another celebrity filed book on fashion.
Rating: 2 / 5
This book is the perfect combination of Nina Garcia’s The Little Black Book and Lucky’s Style Manual. I was looking for a book that was similar to either and luckily, I found this book! It has a list of “the basics” like Garcia’s book, but instead of drawings, it has pictures like Lucky’s. After reading this book, I felt an urge to organize my closet and redefine my style.
I find most fashion books to be either (1) too wordy causing me to lose interest or (2) has too few pictures of the fashion – and they are usually pictures of styles that is beautiful but impractical to wear. This is the type of book that you can use as reference and will never go out of style. I wish more fashion books were like this.
Btw, if you’re into vintage fashion, there is a book similar in style to Garcia’s book (which I love) that combines drawings with brief description/ history of each design/ designer called Shopping for Vintage: The Definitive Guide to Vintage Fashion by Funmi Odulate and Richard Merritt, which is brief but informative without all the extraneous information.
Rating: 5 / 5