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| Dress Your Best: The Complete Guide to Finding the Style That's Right for Your Body | 
 enlarge | Authors: Clinton Kelly, Stacy London
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  106 reviews
Sales Rank: 2677
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0307236714
Dewey Decimal Number: 391
EAN: 9780307236715
ASIN: 0307236714
Publication Date: September 13, 2005
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Condition: Good title in good condition. Pages are clean and tight. Covers show some edgewear and bumping. Former owner's name written on first page.Satisfaction guaranteed. If item not as described, return for refund of purchase price.
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Product Description
The 8 million fans of TLC’s hottest show, What Not to Wear, know it as the place to go for real-life fashion advice. Now the show’s hosts, Clinton Kelly and Stacy London, offer spot-on fashion wisdom—with an attitude—in this fully illustrated, authoritative, and irreverent fashion guide to dressing your best for every occasion. Clinton and Stacy’s surefire method for boosting appearance rests on their belief that we can all win admiring glances by selecting clothes that play up our positives and create a balanced body shape. In Dress Your Best, Clinton and Stacy match a wide range of female and male body types with the perfect work, casual, and evening attire, showing you exactly how to make your best parts “work” for you.
Dressing tips for 26 body types!
Features 18 women and 8 men: bigger on top, bigger on bottom, a little extra in the middle, not curvy, extra curvy, small-framed, athletic, and more!
Whether you’re searching for a way to accentuate your assets, puzzling over the right print pattern for your frame, or just looking for a solution to the dilemma “What do I need to wear to look fabulous?” you’ll find here the universal tips, dos and don’ts, seasonal alternatives, and must-haves that will deliver the answers. Dress Your Best is certain to become the standard by which all other fashion guides are measured.
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 Far Superior to Trinny and Susannah's Book September 21, 2005
307 out of 318 found this review helpful
I'm a big fan of Clinton and Stacy's show on TLC, What Not to Wear, so when I saw that this book was coming out, I was eagerly expectant. Well, it was definitely worth the wait! This book is SO much better than the book What Not to Wear (by the hosts of the BBC series, Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine). Although both books are organized in similar fashion -- identifying certain body shapes (or, in What Not to Wear, certain "flaws") and showing what works for that type -- Dress Your Best does it far better. I don't know why Trinny and Susannah did all the modelling in their book, because they certainly don't represent every common body "flaw". Dress Your Best chose real-life women (and men) and put them in outfits that REALLY made the most of their body types. Some of the transformations were jaw-dropping!! I loved the way the book dressed the three "extra curvy" (AKA pretty darn chunky) women. Just like on the TV show, Stacy and Clinton focused on the positives in these women's appearances and encouraged them to feel good about themselves -- something that society doesn't often do. Another bonus was showing three outfits for each woman and man -- work, weekend, and evening. Plus, with very few exceptions, the clothes they chose were stunning. The same can not be said, in my opinion, for the clothes modelled by Trinni and Susannah. Oh, and did I mention that this book is laugh-aloud funny, just like the TV show? The repartee between Stacy and Clinton translates really well to the printed page. All in all, this book goes to the top of my list of recommended fashion books, right along with the Lucky Shopping Manual. Buy these two, and you will always be dressed your best!
A Well Done Simple Guide to "Dress Your Best" for Your Body Type September 14, 2005
108 out of 127 found this review helpful
Clinton Kelly and Stacy London did a great job in making dressing your best super simple with examples of different body types, and what to wear to accentuate your look, without difficult piles of information to sort through. What I like most about this book is its simplicity! It shows more of what "to do" so that you can easily (and inexpensively) dress for any time of the day or night, and any occasion, so that the clothes are perfect for you, as opposed to trying to twist your body into a look that might not be right for you.
It's a nice book and very helpful for finding the right clothes that are perfect for your body type. Well done!
Barbara Rose, author of Stop Being the String Along: A Relationship Guide to being THE ONE and if God Was Like Man
Editor, inspire! magazine
 Great, but could use improvemet September 3, 2006
86 out of 89 found this review helpful
Like many of the other reviewers, I love Stacy and Clinton's TV show, and it has helped me greatly in weeding out pieces in my wardrobe and buying new clothes to replace them. When I discovered that they had published a book, I rented it from the local library immediately. In a way, I am glad I rented it rather than purchasing it.
I liked how the book not only broke down different styles by body type, but also used REAL people to demonstrate those body types. It was really easy to flip through and find the different sections that applied to my body type. As always, the information they presented for each body type was great, and the styles are pretty much guaranteed to work well.
However, the book needed improvement in several areas. First of all, only six pages are dedicated to each body type, and while those six pages are informative, it would have been more helpful if they had given each type a few more styles and pointers. For example, in the "curvy" section, Stacy and Clinton recommend a skirt suit, which is great, but they didn't give any pointers for people who want to wear trousers occasionally. The book would have been greatly improved if they gave two or three different looks for work, weekend, and evening.
Secondly, their suggestions were kind of static, meaning they assumed everybody works at a place requiring suits and trousers, everybody goes out for the evening in a cocktail dress, etc. Essentially, they did not make any attempt to curtain their wardrobe selections to individual life-styles. When they list at the front the "essential" pieces for a wardrobe, I found that several of them were really rather obsolete for me. I never go places where I need "evening" attire, for example. THE LUCKY SHOPPING MANUAL succeeds better in this respect because they give you alternatives and allow you to choose more or less of certain pieces for your needs.
Lastly, Stacy and Clinton have a habit of emphasizing the "quality over quantity" line, which does not always work out. Sometimes, people need to build a wardrobe from scratch on a budget, and spending 150 dollars on a cashmere sweater does not factor in. Also, not everything you buy really needs to be high "quality," which is something else the LUCKY manual emphasizes.
Overall, I highly recommend picking up the book from your library, jotting down notes that apply to you, and then as a supplement picking up the LUCKY manual. Grade: B-/B.
 No Examples of clothing... Merely factual advice October 7, 2005
72 out of 81 found this review helpful
I also bought this book because the love the show, but I was disappointed to see that the content is sparse. You basically find what category you best fit under: Short/Average/Tall and your body shape. Then you find your chapter, only to see that there are ONLY 6 pages on your size. There are NO examples of clothing (like in the Lucky book), except for the ones on the models. They only had 3 photos per model-- casual, office and evening... Clearly they need more coverage on say, accessories, makeup, hair, and everything else they cover on the show. The only thing that I did like was the fact that they used plus size models to represent women of all sizes. DO NOT GET THIS BOOk if you need examples of what clothing to buy. BUY Sam Saboura's Book, which focuses on women of all shapes and sizes, and provides clothing examples, pictures, and even covers accessories, undergarments, etc. You won't regret Sam's book like I did this one.
Not enough help October 26, 2005
29 out of 42 found this review helpful
I was hoping to see many smaller photos of clothing for my body type but there are only about 3 per figure. The rest of the book is a waste because it for different types of figures.
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