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Title: Best Dressed : The Born to Shop Lady's Secrets for Building a Wardrobe by Suzy Gershman ISBN: 0-609-80581-9 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 28 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.07 (15 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Judge this book by its cover.
Comment: Like other reviewers of this book, I too noticed that the outfits featured on the back cover were none too appealing. They are presumably very expensive outfits, though, and serve as visual notice of the type of advice contained in the book.
The advice on "building a wardrobe" is almost non-existent (one list of 10 "must-have" items is the sum total). Most of this book is devoted to descriptions of the clothing and retail industries, with long passages describing different types of fabric. Gershman is clearly a fan of haute couture, and much space is spent describing $500 "bargains" (picked up at shops around the world). She does not spend any time discussing color choice, and her idea of accessories is Hermes scarves, Chanel earrings, and fake flowers. She recommends flying yourself to New York twice a year to do your shopping.
If money, practicality, and closet space are not issues for you, you might find this book useful. The rest of us, however, have much better books to choose from. I recommend Linda Dano's "Looking Great," a book so essential to building a good wardrobe that I find myself coming back to it again and again.
Rating: 1
Summary: Great for wealthy matrons
Comment: This book contains the absolute best advice if you look like Suzy, think like Suzy, and have Suzy's enormous budget for clothing. Unfortunately, her personal style is much too matronly for me, and I'm 47 years old. She allows her personal -- and rather unfortunately, dismal -- taste dictate what she masks as general advice for all. One needs to look no further than the painfully hideous photo of her on the front cover, wearing gigantic pearls that threaten to engulf her head, which is in desperate need of an updated haircut.
Some of her advice is just plain bad. A navy suit for everyone? She forgets that not everyone has her skin and hair color nor has a need to dress in ultra-conservative, business attire. No black or gold purse for evening? That's fine if you have an unlimited budget to buy one of her $1,000 bargain purses in different colors to match all of your outfits. If you don't buy different colors, then you'll forever be stuck as the woman with the purple, pink, or whatever-color-you-choose purse. She may not personally like black, but it is indisputably one of the chicest and most sophisticated colors. Keep in mind that the advice on the book is being dispensed by the person parading in the insipid outfits on the back cover.
Although she does give a good insight behind the doors of the retail fashion industry, one still needs an annual multi-thousand dollar budget to even begin to take her advice. She also assumes that the reader, besides being incredibly wealthy, needs to dress in an ultra-conservative manner which allows little room for femininity or personal style. Come to think of it, I think Suzy would be the perfect fashion consultant for Queen Elizabeth of England - their styles are almost identical. My mother is nearly 70 years old and wouldn't be caught dead in some of the elderly fashions that the author is wearing. It is remarkable that anyone could take the advice on style in this book seriously.
I would, however, recommend this book to anyone whose idea of fashion includes adding color to a burlap bag. But then again, Suzy's idea of wearing huge fake flowers and baseball-sized pearls may or may not be an improvement. The target audience for this book is extremely limited and should be noted.
Rating: 5
Summary: I Loved this Book!
Comment: I loved this Book! There were no glossy pictures of the latest fashions but that turned out to be a good thing because the advice becomes timeless. I now know how to tell a quality item from a cheap item and have been able to go into stores and disregard a lable and discern an item of true quality from an item poorly made. This alone was worth its weight in gold. I am an avid thrift store shopper and cannot believe the beautiful items I have found there. Yesterday I pulled an Armani dress out of a jumble of clothing merely because I examined the stitching and fabric and knew I had a quality item. The lable was the last thing I looked at. However, it was no surprise that it turned out to be an Armani because the structure of the garment told me it was quality first. My copy is quickly becoming dog eared. If you do not have unlimited funds to spend on clothing do yourself a favor and buy this book so you can make the most of the money you do have available.
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Title: Women's Wardrobe (Chic Simple) by Jeff Stone, Kim Johnson Gross ISBN: 067944484X Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 28 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Secrets of Style: InStyle's Complete Guide to Dressing Your Best Every Day by Lisa Arbetter ISBN: 1932273042 Publisher: Time Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Chic Simple: What Should I Wear? : Dressing for Occasions by Jeff Stone, Kim Johnson Gross ISBN: 0375402454 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: What Not to Wear by Trinny Woodall, Robin Matthews, Susannah Constantine ISBN: 1573223573 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Brenda's Wardrobe Companion: A Guide to Getting Dressed From the Inside Out by Brenda Kinsel, Jenny M. Phillips ISBN: 1885171714 Publisher: Wildcat Canyon Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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