Customer Reviews

How to Walk in High Heels

5 star:		(13)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

I agree with the person that said this was the equivalent of a bunch of magazine tidbits. There is ALOT of nothing in here... things that I could've gathered on my own. It was quite disappointing on so many levels. Barely entertaining bathroom reading?! Yes, but not for the price and hype. Here are some low-lights in this first half of the book.

How to be stylish: "remember a good pair of shoes can make any outfit. Likewise, a bad pair can do irrevocable damage." (Okay, so what's a good pair and a bad pair?)

Half a page on how to stick to a gym membership summed up: Tell everyone. Ideally go with a friend. Know what will scare you into action. (DUH.)

How to swim in shades (summarized): wrap a rubber band around each arm of the shades. Then make an inconspicuous ponytail with a small strand of hair to keep the shades in place. (Sounds like a breeze.)

Hair: Dry shampoo is perfect for reviving bands. (Proceeds to offer how to for teasing hair into a big bouffant, no pictures included. At least in magazines there are pictures.)

Tips for the salon: dress to impress, giving the stylist some inspiration. Be prepared (ie-bring a book for the down time.) Do not opt for a style that you cant re-create (Duh.) Know the style that suits your face (DUH) and get your punchline out before the dryer is on (as you and your stylist cant hear as well when the dryer is on).

How to deal with bad hair days: wear a hat. (This takes up two pages. Two additional pages on "how to wear a hat".)

Some of the biggest disappoints:

How to deal with unpleasant situations covers how to avoid the flu "keep your hands clean... eat fruits and vegetables..."; how to apply adhesive bandages, how to be stylish in a sling; how to use toilets at concert venues; how to pick up dog doo with style...

How to survive an occasion "weddings, funerals & birthdays". (The book skimps on the most important aspect... gifts!) "If they have a wedding list, go for it. If all you can afford is a sugar-bowl lid, so be it." (Did I need a book for this?!)

How to dance: "Invest in VH1 and MTV- watch the videos and learn". (If it were all that easy, we'd all be dancing like Beyonce and Justin Timberlake, no?!) Precedes to outline the moves to the tango with no foot charts or pictures.

How to grill bacon, sausage, and tomato: Generously piece and put under grill, and flip when they look done.

How to get a mortgage: all you need to do is go to Google, type in "mortage broker," et voila. (sounds fail proof to me, seeing as there are very few internet scams out there nowadays)

You barely have to read a page or two into the excerpt here to see that you will not get the best advice here. What kind of advice does it give for emphasizing the waist? Low slung pants, cropped tops, and belly piercings. SERIOUSLY? That's about the worst fashion advice I've ever heard. Maybe that's ok for sassy little 15 year olds, but it is the farthest thing from classy, and not usually appropriate or flattering! Honestly, the advice in this book, save for a few words of wisdom from some bona fide experts, is at best fluff, and at worst just plain bad.

If you didn't have a momma to teach you what's what, maybe you would buy this book. Still would be a rank substitute for a few classic movies and an observant eye towards REAL class. Come now, ladies. Anything that tells you to watch Mtv? Devil's highway. Better paths to walk, the icons never needed a book cause they KNEW.

Oh how disappointed I was by this book! Although witty in a few places, it read very much like someone trying very hard to create something that just wouldn't come together. I'm a Brit living in Canada, and excused the parts on electronics that would have little value for anyone on this side of the pond, but the rest of the book was so utterly juvenile that it seemed written for a child. How to thread a needle? Cook bacon and sausages? Come on! Oh yes, and someone once told me he valued our friendship too much to "risk" it by dating. We've been married for over 25 years and are looking forward to the next 25. And he's not a liar :) I'm assuming the never wear heels under 5" bit was tongue-in-cheek. The book started out in a promising note but, by the time I'd dragged myself to the end, I'm afraid it only qualified for one star.

This, like The Little Black Book Of Style, really only has advice that applies to skinny girls. Not fat ones like myself. Yet, it's easier to read and doesn't leave me wanting to burst into tears like LBBOS.

However, I disagree with 99% of what the author has to say. Now I'm glad she said that if you have a big belly and/or hips you should wear baggy tops. If only my fellow fatties would listen to her on this! (Please, the skin-tight clothes do NOT make you look thinner, it just makes people point at you and laugh.) And that she admitted no one looks good in horizontial stripes. Now if she'd just add "If you have fat, fleshy arms, you MUST wear REAL sleeves - and cap sleeves are NOT real sleeves."

Really though, the book is a waste of time and money. A lot of things she says are just stupid. You don't have to watch MTV and VH1 - good music ends in the 80s. Anything past that that isn't a Broadway musical isn't worth wasting your time on. Modern art isn't art. Her advice to be up on these things can just be thrown away. Why all the discussion on poker and horse betting? Why would a girl need to know this? Gambling is boring.

And of course her talk about how a woman should never wear a heel lower then 5 inches is just insane. There's no such thing as a comfortable high heel. And saying that lower heels are actually worse for your back then a 5 inch heel just defies medical and common sense. Finally, dumping a man just because he's shorter then you is pretty darn shallow and makes a woman look like someone no one wants to spend time with.

If anything, the only thing this book has done is further convinced me that I will never be able to walk in high heels and need to accept my place as "Failure As A Woman."

If you must read it, borrow from your local library and return on time so you don't waste money on it like I did.

My title is heavily drenched in sarcasm. I bought this book as a gift for my sister thinking it would be full of witty anecdotes and helpful tips that may not have occured to me before. You can imagine my horror when I opened it and it fell open on the page describing to the females of the world how to turn on a computer using the button with a cicle and a line through it and to remember to ensure it was plugged in first. Well I must say that was 18 dollars well invested. I was trying to decide whether to put it in the bathroom to be used as toilet roll or to line the cats litter box with it when a male friend I showed it to offered to buy it off me. His plan is to give to his sister as a joke to annoy her. I am no raging feminist, but I really do believe this book is an insult to womens intelligence the world over. My favourite tip in it comes in the section "Lines not to fall for". It reads something like this: "I value our friendship too much to date you" - Liar!! The bastard never fancied you and never will. Don't waste any more time on him he may lessen your chances of finding THE ONE. (yes they have it in block capitals!) Now that, to me, would seem a very polite and sensitive way to tell a friend you are not interested in them a romantic way, the advice from the book is to label him a bastard and stay away from him in future. This is not only bad advice, its absolutely ludicrous!!! This book is a disgrace. I gave it one star because there were no minus figures.

I think this book exists mostly as something to buy as a gift for a fabulous girl, or one who would like to be. It isn't, however, to be used as a serious tool in that kind of endeavor. I received one as a gift which I found very generous, but it's really not remotely groundbreaking in its advice. The eponymous advice didn't really teach me how to walk in high heels with any greater certainty in not falling down than I could have gleaned through exploring. The best piece of advice there was just to think in advance about what kinds of surfaces you'll be walking on (carpet, grass, wood, etc).

The book covers a smattering of everything that a girl might need to know: how to plan a dinner party, how to take a breakup, how to do random household tasks. It's really slapdash and light, and you would do better to make a list of things you attempted to look up here so you can figure out how to do them and succeed in reality. There are some fun contributions from various fashion royalty like model Jacqetta Wheeler, Kylie Minogue and William Baker, shoe designer Manolo Blahnik, Stella McCartney, Bella Freud (writing on...ironing), Vivienne Westwood (on how to appreciate art), Jade Jagger (compiling a soundtrack), Azzedine Alaia (poaching an egg?) and how to look good in a photo by none other than Gisele Bundchen. There's a few more in there, but these are the names you would definitely recognize. I think these were great fun and flighty.

I did love the hipsterish line illustrations. They gave the book a little edge, since any lighter and the thing would have been flying away.

This is the absolut ultimate girl's guide to everything!! You have tips for almost everything related to style - from how to choose the perfect shoes to how to decline a dance partner with style! I personally find it entertaining and amusing. Camilla Morton gives you all the advice to all kind of situations, and her tips can get you out of any kind of embarrasment!!It also includes advice from important personalities such as Stella McCartney or Manolo Blahnik which I find quite helpful since they know what style is about. I highly recommend it to everyone with style!

Don't be fooled by the title, this lady knows what's what ! If there are any guys out there who haven't read this book. do yourselves a favour, buy it, read it and recommend it. As for the ladies, this is one of the wittiest books I've read in a long long time. It makes men understand the dynamics of the opposite sex, and women understand the importance of their own. Unlike Dorothy in " The Wizard of Oz " this lady isn't going back to kansas with one click of her heels, she's going to the stars ! Morton has a voice and what a voice !

This is possibly the best how to guide I have ever read. It covers just about anything you could ever want to do. It shows how to be stylish, polite, knowlegable, and classy. I absolutely loved this book and I encourage anyone who wants to better themselves to read it.