books about: dresses

books about: dresses

books:

Dresses

Dress Your Best: The Complete Guide to Finding the Style That's Right for Your Body

Clinton Kelly, Stacy London

Three Rivers Press, 2005

Finding the Right Fit
This has been the best book on clothing I've seen. They are NOT here to tell you your style like "classic," "bohemian," "Victorian"... What they do is tell you how to deal with your body shape. They steer you toward the best style clothing for your body shape. ...

The Lucky Shopping Manual: Building and Improving Your Wardrobe Piece by Piece

Andrea Linett, Kim France

Gotham, 2003

Every Woman Should Own This Book!
I absolutely loved this book! It's a great how-to guide for updating your look to avoid becoming a fashion don't! I went shopping this weekend and used several tips from this book and therefore avoided purchases that are not flattering to my shape. I am excited to ...

Fancy Nancy

Jane O'connor

HarperCollins, 2005

One of our favorites
Nancy is sweet, cute, fun and fancy!! This book is perfect for any girly girl- big or small! It's also a great way to teach your little ones BIG words! Mommy's High Heel Shoes

Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business

HarperTrophy, 1987

Me and my 2.5 year old son love this book
This is a great book for kids, even young ones around 2.5 years old. It's an engaging story and my son loves the part where the man wakes up to find his hats gone, and looks up and sees all the monkeys wearing the hats! He asks me to read it everynight, and remembers ...

Freakin' Fabulous: How to Dress, Speak, Behave, Eat, Drink, Entertain, Decorate, and Generally Be Better than ...
Clinton Kelly

Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2008

Clinton Kelly won't just revamp your wardrobe -- he'll revamp your life! The huddled masses yearn to be fabulous, and finally Clinton Kelly is heeding their call. As co-host of TLC's popular What Not to Wear, he regularly transforms dumpy fashion disasters into traffic-stopping, get-an-instant-promotion, reignite-the-passion-in-that-relationship ...

Fancy Nancy: Let's Get Fancy Together! (Fancy Nancy)
Jane O'connor

HarperCollins, 2008

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

David Sedaris

Back Bay Books, 2005

Dress Your Family in Cords or enim
This book is hysterical! Probably one of his best works if not the best.If you like Sedaris at all then you must read this (even though it's not his latest). It's even funny a second time around, the semi biographical short stories don't get dated.

Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style (Tim Gunn's Guide to Style)

Tim Gunn, Kate Moloney

Abrams Image, 2007

Sage Advice from Everyone's Favorite Style Master
First of all, let me say that this review will be biased. I absolutely LOVE Tim Gunn. Doesn't every girl wish that they had Tim as an uncle that you could call up for fashion advice? If so, my teens, twenties, and thirties wouldn't have been such a fashion disaster! ...

How to Have Style

Isaac Mizrahi

Gotham, 2008

Exhilarating
This is the most exhilarating style book I've ever looked at. You'll enjoy it. It would be perfect if we could see Mr. Mizrahi give himself the IM treatment in the final chapter. Enough with those sneakers and schlumpy black clothes!

The One Hundred: A Guide to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own

Nina Garcia

Collins Living, 2008

Great!
Great w/ imput from hottest designers, illustrations, and reasoning behind styles and choices. A must!

The Pocket Stylist: Behind-the-Scenes Expertise from a Fashion Pro on Creating Your Own Look

Kendall Farr

Gotham, 2004

Wonderful!
This terrific book changed the way I think about clothing fit, and what I should be wearing and buying. It's the most useful fashion/clothing book I own, and probably a good purchase for many women. The ideas are timeless, but still immediately applicable for a ...

Survey Of Historic Costume: A History Of Western Dress

Phyllis G. Tortora, Keith Eubank

Fairchild Books & Visuals, 2005

Review for the 3rd Edition of 'Historic Costume'
This is the textbook from my History of Fashion course. Like nearly all Fairchild Publication books, this is extremely well put together. It describes the dress of the time, construction and what it was made of, as well as the social/historical events at the time that ...

Paper Fashions Fancy (Klutz)

Klutz, 2008

Red Carpet HOT!!!
The answer to your question is YES! You want this! You need this!! You gotta have this book right now!!! For those of you who have the first Paper Fashions from which, there's no denying, you could get evening and wedding gowns out of, Paper Fashions Fancy is ...

The Hundred Dresses

Eleanor Estes

Harcourt Paperbacks, 2004

A powerful, direct antidote to racism and prejudice
When she was young --- this was almost a century ago --- Eleanor Estes went to school with a Polish girl who was so poor that she wore the same dress every day. Kids are cruel; the girl got teased. And then she moved away. In 1944, Eleanor Estes took that memory and ...

Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing

Judi Barrett

Aladdin, 1988

Great Read
I work in a Nursery and I bought this book to read to the children. They loved it! They thought it was hilarious.