Customer Reviews

The Swell Dressed Party

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I tend to like to entertain in different ways and was hesitant to take tips from a book when I got this as a hostess gift. Was happy to see some of my standby tricks like ordering in all the food, hosting clothing swaps and having a bash at a just moved in apt before the unpacking -- but some of their suggestions are just brilliant, like having a hangover brunch or bribing the ice cream truck driver to stop at your place or setting up a champagne cocktail bar. And I can't wait to make their Gazpacho which you can boozify by passing around a chilled bottle of pepper vodka. Yum.

This is a fabulous book!! Not only is it FULL of rockin' party ideas, but it has the greatest pictures and is a great book to have on your coffee table. I have every single book that these ingeneous women have written and have bought them all for each of my girlfriends. My favourite idea is the "Sweet Birthday Suite" idea- an intimate bday dinner w/ good friends and then, unbeknownst to the bday girl, a blow-out upstairs in the penthouse- GREAT IDEA! Thanks for the great book- you've helped me become a best hostess!!

I enjoyed some other Swell books, so I decided to buy another one because I am having a big party this November. Bad decision. This book is almost entirely useless when it comes to anything but drinks. What if you're underage, a religious person, or simply don't drink? There were some fun ideas but, again, mostly about drinks.

I LOVE the Swell girls and all of their books!! They are so very entertaining and fun to read, I have bought them over and over for all of my girlfriends. This one in particular will give you a 'leg-up' for throwing fabulous, fun, memorable parties for any occasion, or no occasion at all!! A must have for all of us girls... : )

I'm 35, I love socializing, and I'm pretty picky when it comes to what I like and don't like. I thought this book had fabulous ideas, and I read it cover to cover!

I bought this book based on a review in Cosmo magazine, and was not disappointed. I'm surprised at the harsh reviews it has received!

i can't believe i paid for another one of their stupid books - this is the last time for sure! its sooo annoying to read and their ideas are not 'fresh' or 'new.' pick up any copy of instyle, gourmet, etc. and you will see them from someone else & they even used some of the same ideas that they wrote about in the first book. just like the holiday book, the organization is terrible and it looks like they put it together in a week just to make some money. makes sense since none of cynthia rowley's clothes are sold anywhere b/c they fall apart...the only positive i have to say is at least the pictures look decent. DONT BOTHER PAYING FULL PRICE B/C I AM SURE PEOPLE WILL BE GIVING THEM AWAY ON EBAY SOON..

holy! how washed-up and un-original are these authors!?! this book is such a joke. i can't believe that these two "swell girls", (oh, and does late 50's and botoxed and implanted to a semi-bouyant 49 count as a girl?), really think that their lame party advice is helpful to anyone older than 12.

Even though we live in an era obsessed with youth, there are some people who go to extremes that are just pathetic. For example, the authors of this book.

There is nothing pretty, or swell, in seeing two middle-aged women write and act like they are twelve. On the contrary: it makes a grown-up cringe.

Ilene and Cynthia (who in this book refer to their husbands as their "big daddies") write supposedly cutesy and really moronic advice for becoming a "perfect hostess."

This book might come in handy - if you are serving tea for your Barbies in the dollhouse. Then again, even a child probably has fresher, more creative ideas than these two.

Rowley and Rosenzweig might be a lot of things, but swell (or cool, or hip) is not one of them. The Swell... has my vote for the lamest book of the year.

Unless your IQ is below 70, you don't need this book. It contains a series of lame, idiotic, boring comments and "ideas" on how to throw a party. "The Swell Dressed Party" looks like it was written by an 80-year-old woman who is desperately trying to be young and hip. It's that pathetic.