How to Get Dressed: A Costume Designer's Secrets for Making Your Clothes Look, Fit, and Feel Amazing
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (500 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1607747065 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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In How to Get Dressed, Alison distills her secrets into a fun, comprehensive style guide focused on rethinking your wardrobe like a fashion expert and making what’s in your closet work for you. TV and film productions wait for nothing, so her solutions have to work fast. Including helpful information such as how to skip ironing and the dry cleaners, remove every stain under the sun, and help clueless men get their sartorial acts together, How to Get Dressed has hundreds of insider tips from Alison’s arsenal of tools and expertise.. She provides real-world advice about everything style-related, including: • Making every garment you own fit better • Mastering closet organization • The undergarments you actually need • The scoop on tailors and which alterations are worth it • Shopping thrift and vintage like a rockstar Instead of repeating boring style “rules,” Alison breaks the rules and gets real about everything from bras to how to deal with inevitable fashion disasters. Costume designer Alison Freer’s styling kit is a magical bag of tricks, built to solve every single wardrobe malfunction on e
. With more than 150 TV shows, films, commercials, and music videos under her belt, she has reams of hard-won, practical wardrobe expertise at her fingertips. ALISON FREER is a costume designer from Texas living and working in Hollywood. Alison is also the clothes editor at xoJane, where her unique take on how to solve common fashion and style conundrums has won her a dedicated following. She also a
Useful, Practical Tips from a Witty, Funny Chick Jillian Hastings Alison Freer is a Hollywood costume designer, and I've followed her style articles on the website xoJane for years. Her advice online has never led me astray, and I've used many of her tips to great success (including making my own wax-coated denim). I was obviously super excited about her book, and I have to say, it didn't disappoint!How to Get Dressed is like Lucky Magazine or Cosmo, if either of those magazines were actually . "i'm not even disorganized, nor do I try to look hot, but it still helped a LOT!" according to Jane Doe. It jumps through topics a little faster than I'd prefer, and could use more text-illustrative-images (still trying to figure out what a "circle skirt" is), but it has answered questions I've held for years (do I really need to dry clean?), has so many specific fabric cleaning directions that I'll be adding flags and using it as a reference in my laundry room, and it inspired me to sort/ re-organize my closets, boosted by the tru. "Make Your Clothes Work For You" according to Eva Woods. It's hard to know where to start on this review, because I loved *so many* things about the book, but I'll try to go in order!It's wonderfully inclusive. Too much fashion advice focuses on one body type, narrow gender expression, what's "flattering" rather than what you love. How To Get Dressed does none of that. It's got advice for everyone. It doesn't treat one type of body as more worthy of feeling and looking beautiful than
For someone looking to overhaul their closet, this is not a book to miss."--Bustle"Freer has quite a few styling tricks up her sleeve, and now it’s easier for everyone to gain access to her straight-forward advice for cheap. Her new book How To Get Dressed gets to the nitty-gritty of revamping your wardrobe."--Huffington Post"Freer is refreshingly down-to-earth in her first book, which is packed full of helpful tips for building and maintaining a stylish wardrobe for those looking for a comprehensive and highly readable clothes-care book, this is the one."--Publishers Weekly“Alison really nails the basics of good style while allowing room for readers to inject their own personality into a look. Alison is right about many things, bu