Ever been overwhelmed by a closet that feels as if it's filled with all the wrong pieces? "Instant Style" is the ultimate guide to streamlining, shopping for, and maintaining your ideal wardrobe all year round. The book starts with the basics, outlining essential clothing items for each season-winter coats, spring skirts, summer sandals, fall sweaters-then shows how to complement them with pieces that accentuate personal style. Learn which tops go with what pants, what boots look best with different skin shapes, how the right bag can change the entire look of an outfit, and how to flatter your colouring and figure. Find out when to hit the best sales, what's worth splurging on, and how to recognize quality in clothes. Finally, benefit from the book's listing of recommended stores around the country: "Instant Style" is filled with hundreds of colourful photographs of clothes and celebrities that will inspire and delight. It is the first book that gives readers everything they need to make getting dressed, no matter what the occasion and season, as enjoyable and easy as it should be.
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InStyle magazine hit newstands in 1994, committed to celebrity lifestyle, and gets most of the credit (or blame) for the current obsession with celebrities: where they live, where they vacation, what they eat, what they buy and especially what they wear. One of InStyle's most popular sections is "The Look"—pages of celebrity photos shot at fabulous parties and award events, with captions crediting their designer duds. But along the way, InStyle also became a premier fashion magazine, with the idea of bringing the fabulous to the many. This book by the editors offers a season-by-season guide to dressing well in all situations and being, well, in style. The coverage is entertaining, with much-photographed women like Sarah Jessica Parker, Cameron Diaz, Oprah and Jennifer Aniston providing examples for "know your own shape" (Are you slender and petite like Eva Longoria? Small-busted like Kate Hudson?) and how best to dress for your age (68-year-old-Jane Fonda showing how it's done for her decade). There are sections on editing your wardrobe, putting outfits together, essential lingerie, checklists and worksheets, and even an index of stores throughout the country. The result is a terrific-looking book with helpful hints in a useful and entertaining format, a perfect encapsulation of everything the magazine does month after month. (Oct. 24)
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54 of 55 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great style book.,
This review is from: In Style: Instant Style (Your Season-By-Season Guide for Work and Weekend) (Paperback)
I brought this book after months of having the Lucky shopping manuel and I have to say, that if I could put that book and this book together I would have the perfect style guide. Where the Lucky shopping manuel is weak, this is strong and vice versa. Some of the best parts of this book are giving advice on how to dress for diff. age groups, how to fix up your closet, different looks for work, weekend,and evening based on the seasons. Whether it's spring/summer or fall/winter. This book also has a section of jewerly, and is more detailed than Lucky on how to dress for diff. types of vacations. The weaknesses of this book are body types( not every full figured women looks like Queen Latifah), the personal style profiles, and shoe sections. Yet, this book also contain a check list of clothes needed for every season and a booklet to help you edit and buy more clothes. I would recommend this book, but would also recommend buying the Lucky shopping manuel and the Teen people Celebrity Style Guide to have a more well rounded and complete style guide.
55 of 58 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good for the 20-35 year old fashionista on a budget,
By Joanna Daneman (Middletown, DE USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (COMMUNITY FORUM 04) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: In Style: Instant Style (Your Season-By-Season Guide for Work and Weekend) (Paperback)
This book shows you how to take one piece and use it four ways, whether skirt, jacket or pants, and then how to accessorize. There is a section on undergarments, too. In front of the book, you'll find a bookmark with a list of essentials to buy, so take this with you when you shop. In the back of the book is a workbook for lists of things your friends like, how to choose what to keep in your closet and other helpful hints.
The fashions are for the 20-35 set, over 35, you'll find this is less useful as a fashion guide unless you ignore the photos. But the photos are the nicest thing about the book; white background, unfussy shots of clothes make it easy to visualize how the style works. Recommended with the reservations mentioned. jld
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great fashion advice,
This review is from: In Style: Instant Style (Your Season-By-Season Guide for Work and Weekend) (Paperback)
This book is fun, easy to understand and helpful. It's got great advice on how to put together outfits for everything from parties to what to wear to the office to what to wear to the beach--and there are neat photos so you can see the outfits put together, including purses and shoes, and what's best for your "shape." There's something in here for every type of woman, no matter what her age and personal style. It really helped me figure out some of my fashion problems--I no longer stand stupefied in front of my closet, feeling as if I have nothing to wear! And on top of the great advice, there are lots of pictures of stars. I like it so much, I'm going to give it as a Christmas gift to friends.
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