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Summary: Snappy style on regular chicks
Review: There's nothing I hate more than a celebrity touting fashion book. Thankfully, Tiffany Dubin shows real people wearing vintage style in a flattering and accessible way. The clothes don't look like they've just been pulled from a moth-infested attic. They could have come straight from Barneys. Hard to believe they're both old and so up-to-date! I also appreciated the way new and old looks are worn together so that a woman can integrate vintage pieces into her contemporary wardrobe. Given that Dubin must be credited for infusing the vintage style movement with its current vitality and verve (when she headed the fashion department at Sothebys, she was the one who started the mass-movement to look cool in grandma's threads), it figures that she would be the one to write a how-to book for those who didn't make it to her standing-room-only auctions where the hippest New Yorkers learned how to mix Gucci with Rudi Gernreich.
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Summary: Pretencious, Pretencious, and More Pretencious
Review: This book is hysterical!1. The pictures: Tragic, to say the least. I found the photo of HAmish BOwles on a Zebra-skin rug to be utterly appalling. This book really does a disservice to the fashion industry as a whole. Not only that, the tips are verbatum from another book that I purchased 6 years ago. I think Miss Dubin should find a new study, for this is not her forte. I feel that this book was a big waste of money. If you are truly a collector or you love vintage this book is not for you.The only good thing; it makes a great coaster.
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Summary: very disappointing
Review: This book is really aimed at vintage fashion neophytes. For any one with more than a passing knowledge of vintage fashion save your money. As an aesthitic experience the book is great, lots of pretty pictures. However, there is nothing really of interest in the book. As a test if you know who courreges is do not buy this book, there is nothing here you don't already know.
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Summary: A great gift book for your favorite fashionista!
Review: This book is the perfect tool for learning how to buy vintage and how to wear it. Most importantly how to wear with modern pieces; think Winona Ryder, not Marcia Brady.The "models" are gorgeous working women who wear the clothes with style and pizzazz. The range of ages and shapes/sizes of the "models" is incredible and really drives home the point that classics become classics by being beyond fads or trends that limit their appeal to a moment in time. A treasure chest of buying information at the back, the book is worth it for the section alone (but the rest of the book is spectacular too).
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Summary: A great gift book for your favorite fashionista!
Review: This book is the perfect tool for learning how to buy vintage and how to wear it. Most importantly how to wear with modern pieces; think Winona Ryder, not Marcia Brady. The "models" are gorgeous working women who wear the clothes with style and pizzazz. The range of ages and shapes/sizes of the "models" is incredible and really drives home the point that classics become classics by being beyond fads or trends that limit their appeal to a moment in time. A treasure chest of buying information at the back, the book is worth it for the section alone (but the rest of the book is spectacular too).
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Summary: Wish there were more like this!
Review: This is the first book on vintage clothing that doesn't aim to help make you look like you're an extra in a period movie. (Not that there's anything really wrong with that, but...). This is for fashion buffs who want to incorporate vintage pieces successfully into their existing wardrobes and thereby create a truly individual style for themselves. I loved the way the book inspired me to re-examine the clothing I already own, and how vintage pieces -- classic pieces -- might add new life to my wardrobe. The key word here is "classic", and this book goes a long way toward defining it. In addition to this book, I own several others on vintage clothing. Most of those books merely chronicle the various eras and styles of clothing, plus include price ranges for collectors. VINTAGE STYLE, on the other hand, shows how you can wear the clothes, not merely accumulate them. My only wish is that the authors had included a lot more on vintage accessories -- say, costume jewelry (charm bracelets); handbags; shoes; etc. But this was a fine step in the right direction, and I'd love to see more books like this! Hopefully, the authors are planning another edition!
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Summary: Finally, a stylish vintage clothing book!
Review: This is the vintage clothing book I've been waiting for. So many of them are mere catalogs in B&W showing dowdy clothes on dowdy models -- useful for figuring out prices and the age of the garment, but not much else. But with great photography and art direction and attractive real people, this book contains great ideas on how to actually incorporate vintage clothing in your wardrobe. One vintage article of clothing is shown being worn several different ways for each person, sometimes with other vintage items, sometimes with newer items. Hopefully this book will encourage others to appreciate what I've come to love about vintage clothing -- its versatility, its quality, its stylishness and its timelessness.
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Summary: Blurry Photos and Fuzzy Guidance
Review: This was an ambitious project, by all means: over two hundred four-color pages and a jacket blurb that proclaims the book "nothing short of a money-saving source guide and an inspirational blueprint for understanding how to wear vintage clothing with style". Alas, Vintage Style fails on both counts. While some of the photographs display lovely vintage pieces--a terrific off-white Dior ensemble from the 50's, for example--the majority of these vintage-ensembles-as-mainstream-choices would draw unwanted stares at best, and embarrassing comments, at worst. As for being a source guide, money-saving or otherwise, the book merely lists (on the final few pages) a handful of vintage dealers in each of the general regional areas of the United States, with the majority being in the New York and New England areas (surprise, surprise). The disclaimer states "A complete list would be impossible to compile". Apparently so: if you're a resident of The South, we're informed, there are only two vintage sellers of which the authors are aware: one in Miami and one in Atlanta. Well, that's news to us Southern girls! Furthermore, no price points are mentioned (these would help steer the vintage shopper to boutiques whose merchandise she could afford) and no information on the stores' areas of specialization (i.e. designers and eras represented) is given either. Although there are plenty of color photographs, the majority are strangely styled and badly out-of-focus. A puzzling eight-part treatise on hacking up a (seemingly) perfectly good black lace dress with a pair of scissors concludes with the wearer looking less Comme des Garcons than extremely silly. And there is a disappointing shortage of accessory shots: don't those New Yorkers like vintage jewelry and handbbags as much as the rest of the nation? Yes, you'll see some designer outfits shown on non-models in Vintage Style. But for about $37 less, you can flip through the society pages of W magazine and have a similar experience.
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Summary: Best book on the topic i've seen
Review: tiffany dubin really knows her stuff and doesn't get too lofty for the average person who just wants to see what all this hype about vintage is about. she shows fun ways to mix and match your existing wardrobe with cool finds. this book is a perfect guidebook, fun to look at and has some amazing rescources as well as a fun group of what must be friends showing the clothing off. A+
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Summary: For "modern" vintage
Review: When I ordered the book I was expecting a good share of the content to cover 1940s fashions (my favorite period). However, it mostly deals with what I call "modern" vintage (stuff I wore the first time around). It's a good book if that's your interest, but if its 1940s or earlier, move on.
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