What Your Clothes Say About You: How to Look Different, Act Different and Feel Different |
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Susannah Constantine, Trinny Woodall
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Pages: 280 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 0297843575
Pub: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub date: 2005-09-29
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 28381
Reader Reviews:
Dull, uninspiring and nothing new (8/10 people found this helpful)
I borrowed this book from a friend. I am really glad I didn't waste my money on it!
The advice is basic and very common sense - if you need someone to tell you that you should wear clean clothes then maybe you need another type of book altogether!
The pictures of before and after were unrelistic eg slouching and looking miserable with bad hair will always make you look awful regardless of what you are wearing.
I haven't read any of their other books as this one put me off.
Avoid it - it is dull and won't tell you anything!
What not to say (6/6 people found this helpful)
Have read and enjoyed all their books (and TV programmes) although I think they are beginning to repeat themselves and maybe struggling to find something different to say. Liked the colour charts in the book but felt these would have worked even better if they could have been removable. I wouldn't want to carry a heavy book with me when shopping for clothes so detachable colour charts would have been great. Excellent advice as always but a book every year saying the same things is probably too much.
What Your Clothes Say About You (44/48 people found this helpful)
I was SO disappointed with this book, it's just a paper regurgitation of the TV series and could easily have been cobbled together by a researcher with a few "pantomime" photos of Trinny and Susannah thrown in. You would need to have a severely split style personality to benefit from much of the advice given, and if you don't fit into any of the case scenarios none of it is really much use to you. There is precious little original or general advice for the rest of us.
I absolutely love Trinny and Susannah and think they are incredibly talented at what they do, but this book sold them short. What I really hoped for was a quick recap of "the rules" and more advice dedicated to body shapes, colouring and adapting current style trends (i.e., "can I wear a pencil skirt even though I have a bum the size of Peterborough, and if so, how?"). I would be happy to buy a style update from them along these lines every season, but I don't really want a book of the TV series which I've already watched, based on people who are not like me anyway.
There is so much demand and scope for Trinny and Susannah's talent, but even the most avid fan could find it hard to find something in it which would make a difference to them personally.
Money for old rope (10/27 people found this helpful)
If you need sartorial advice from this pair, God help you. And if you think you do – but haven't managed to work it out from their first 3 volumes – well then even He might struggle.
How can I leave Britain? (7/33 people found this helpful)
This book made me want to take up fox-hunting and bear-baiting - and I'm a vegetarian, animal-lover. I wish my mother knew me better - SOCKS next year - please!
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