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Susannah Constantine, Trinny Woodall
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Pages: 160 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 0297843311
Pub: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub date: 2002-09-05
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 192740
Editorial Review:
What Not to Wear is based on Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine's BBC television programme of the same name. The show has given a whole new meaning to the phrase "fashion victim": each week a member of the public (kindly nominated by their "friends") is done up (or, perhaps more accurately, done over) by Trinny and Susannah--a couple of Sloane-style gurus who are spikier than a pair of Manolo Blahnik stilettos. The pair mercilessly ridicule each poor specimen's dress sense until, browbeaten into submission, the unfortunate victim is forced to see the error of their sartorial ways. Ready to accept the experts' advice, the subject is then given £2000 for a wardrobe refurbishment. Infuriatingly, the diabolical duo is usually right and an astonishing number of ugly ducklings are duly transformed into swans.
Nowhere near as much fun as watching the girls at work but infinitely preferable to acquiring their advice first hand, this book provides an invaluable guide to avoiding fashion faux pas. Separated into chapters themed by body shape--"big tits", "flabby tummy", "short legs" and so on--it provides step by step instructions on how to choose flattering, fashionable cuts and colours. "Looking stylish", they unsurprisingly declare, "is as much about knowing what not to wear as it is about knowing what suits you." With lists of golden rules and an index of boutiques, this volume, surely one of this season's essential purchases, will have you hot to trot in no time at all. --Travis Elborough
Reader Reviews:
the rules (0/0 people found this helpful)
Good book but not if you've already got 'what not to wear' as its the same.
Golden rules for sensible dressing (0/0 people found this helpful)
I have learnt alot about what not to wear. I could only have wished for more pages on what not to wear ... more info. on how to gain that professional look. I am very happy I bought this book because before the read and before dipping through the pages, I was convinced that clothes did not matter plus I had no idea where to begin. I wanted to improve the way I look and had buts ... Through this book, I have grasped some basic rules on how I could improve my dressing, of course with guidance from fashion gurus Susannah and Trinny.
Very Disappointing (0/1 people found this helpful)
Look at the posture of the girls in some of these pictures, not to mention the look on their faces when their modeling. No wonder it looks bad.
The earring pic for a short neck. The lady is holding her head down and all of a sudden she is holding it up high to show the earring makes her neck look longer.
Looking great has a lot to do with fabric, style, color. Models with different body types would have been better examples.
Brutally honest but absolutely invaluable. (0/0 people found this helpful)
The title says it all really. This book made me have a good hard look at myself and have some eye-opening revelations about my wardrobe. Having used this guide to enlighten myself about what I was doing wrong, I found it much easier to pare my wardrobe down and stop kidding myself that I would ever wear those clothes again!
A miniturised version of What not to wear Vol I (9/10 people found this helpful)
All this is is a shrunk down version of the big hefty volume which as a T&S devotee and disciple I have.
I wish this was a free book attached to previous Volumes.I wish this was a Standard doled out to Women needing sartorial salvation.At it is it is another reason to make money at the Viewers expense.
I have great respect for Trinny and Suzzana and watch their programmes religiously, I have all their books. I love the way they take so called ordinary faulty flawed but beautiful 'real' women and bring out their sartorial potentiality. As a result I could preach the Gospel of T&S with confidence. But this is just a money spinner instead of a way to put T&S advice into much needed compact form.
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