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Summary: The best wardrobe reference ever!
Review: A must-have book which offers a lifetime of learning within its covers. As a business etiquette presenter for university students, I have waited for this book! It compiles the best of all the other sources I have used and it's timeless, too. An outstanding investment.
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Summary: Simply excellent!
Review: A simple, commonsense approach to style; this book shows how to pare away all the excess and utilize the basics to become a well-dressed woman. The photography is minimalist, with the emphasis on the clothing, not models. There are no people in the whole book, and the various quotes are thought-provoking and often funny. My favorite part is the source guide! Altogether an invaluble resource
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Summary: A Book Every Woman Should Own
Review: At first I wasn't sure I would like it. Once I began to read all of the information provided I realized how useful this book really is. I have a closet of clothes and it is teaching me how to combine textures and different pieces to create my own style. This book is a timeless book because it stresses the importance of classic clothes. It allows for fads but it's basic intention is to show the consumer how to shop and actually spend less money by buying classics and working from a starting point. For those who want to always look pulled together this book is it.
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Summary: Fun advice on how to wear what should be in your closet!
Review: Beautiful color photos make this book visually interesting, and solid information makes it more than a comic book for grown-ups. The writing style is breezy and inviting and accessible to everyone from fashion-conscious teens to single-again midlifers.Season-by-season, the authors serve up strategies for developing a functional wardrobe from the odd assortment of garments that clutter many women's closets. Tried and true looks are emphasized for their versatility and longevity, but they are supplemented with numerous helpful hints about changing the looks with accessories and tailoring them for occasions. The authors discuss shoes, underwear, handbags, and jewelry among other items--the whole clothing gamut. The photos typically feature upscale designer garments but the authors make it clear that the look is important, not the brand, as less expensive clothing styles frequently follow in the footsteps of their more illustrious relatives. "Women's Wardrobe" is about finding your personal style, not about making Giorgio Armani and Ralph Lauren wealthier. There are plenty of tips to make weeding out your closet less painful, and good advice on determining what replacement items to buy. (Forget about buying colors according to what "season" you are--most people can wear most colors if they know what they're doing.) Attention is paid not only to actual calendar seasons, but to regional influences and body types. "Women's Wardrobe" is great fun, useful head to toe, under to outer. Make sure you take it as a starting point, though, and not as the final say in cultivating a personal style. But after a sensational start like this book, who would want the fun to end anyway?
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Summary: A Must-have book for anyone who wants to look great!
Review: Chic SIMPLE WOMEN'S WARDROBE takes the mystery out of looking good. The book beautifully presents the concept and process of developing your own style. You'll learn that style has little to do with the latest fashion trends,but is based on understanding your own unique way of presenting yourself. Its practical, no-nonsense approach is a breath of fresh air in this age of stiletto heels and transparent tops!
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Summary: Sorted it all out
Review: For a person who surveys every clothing item in the mall to avoid buyers remorse, this book was a gem! The authors review each basic component of a woman's wardrobe and show how they work together. They also list complete fabric care instructions. The pictures illustrate different color combos and a variety of outfit lines to compliment individual figure types. While most won't be able to afford the outfits pictured, they provide ample fodder for wardrobe creativity and class.
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Summary: I lend it out often
Review: I am a fashion idiot. This book provided a beautiful introduction to the basics of a functional closet. Its luscious layout kept me browsing, whereas a text-only work would have gathered dust on my shelf. At times the text seems very contrived, but again it adds interest to a subject that I find completely mysterious. I have lent this book to countless friends -- all found it useful and entertaining.
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Summary: I wish I hadn't bought this book!
Review: I am just starting to build a professional wardrobe and hoped this book would help me save money on clothes. The book does have some striking photographs, but the design is so incredibly distracting that I couldn't concentrate on what the text actually said. Which might have been just as well: what little I could stomach was trite and banal. Most of page 169, for instance, is devoted to a huge-font reproduction of the words to "Singin' in the Rain." If I had come across this book in a bookstore I never would've bought it.
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Summary: Great source for classic advice
Review: I bought Chic Simple Women's Wardrobe when it first came out, and had reason to pull it out again when my wardrobe needed a complete overhaul due to weight loss. To my delight, the advice and the styles contained within are as fresh now as they were eight years ago. If you're looking for good, basic advice on how to build a classic wardrobe, you won't go wrong with the Chic Simple philosophy, and this book is a wonderful embodiment of it.
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Summary: Help for the fashion-impaired
Review: I found this book to be timeless and extremely helpful, not at all trendy. Unlike the fashion mags which are outdated one week after they go on sale, this book gives tips on how to build a year-round wardrobe from the ground up, with basic, timeless fashions and advice on how to coordinate tops, bottoms, shoes. It is a big help for those of us who are shopping addicts and tend to buy trendy clothes and accessories only to find we don't have a thing to wear 4 months later. Also try "Dressing For Occasions", another Chic Simple book. I would not recommend this for fashionistas in the big cities or women with an interest in lots of inexpensive trendy up-to-the-minute items.
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