A Year in High Heels: The Girl's Guide to Everything from Jane Austen to the A-list (Paperback)

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Despite a little help from friends in high fashion places, including a foreword written by Manolo Blahnik, Morton's follow-up to her debut book How to Walk in High Heels is an unsuccessful pastiche of historical facts, shoe styles, recipes and juxtaposing tips like How to be A-list and How to say something meaningful. The book is arranged in calendar form, with each month including cultural tips and information and a Muse of the Month profile of famous women like Jane Austen and Cleopatra. While trying to appeal to both sides of the Atlantic, the London writer misses the mark by trying too hard to be all-inclusive, especially where holidays are concerned. The sheer volume of historical facts—including when Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross, when Disneyland opened in America and when Mata Hari was born—seem like they were compiled purely to fill in the bits between international dispatches from famous fashionistas like Giorgio Armani and Diane von Furstenberg and are out of place next to a section titled How to moonwalk the Michael Jackson way. B&w illus. (Nov.)
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Product Description

From rocking red shoes in summer to perfecting your postholiday thank-you notes, A Year in High Heels is the ultimate style guide for all fashion-forward females. Fashion journalist and bestselling author Camilla Morton has gathered together an eclectic collection of inspiring suggestions, sensible advice, and surprising how-tos to guide every glamour girl through the year—with witty, smart, and fun tips on how to walk the red carpet, curate an exhibition, blog your way to fame, spice up your public speaking, and make even the mundane magical.

Gisele Bündchen, Diane von Furstenberg, Matthew Williamson, and other fashion icons share secret tips on where to find inspiration; while Dita Von Teese, Anya Hindmarch, and Christian Lacroix explain how to tease, how to go green, and how to appreciate opera. Filled with unique challenges and infinitely fun ideas, this is the guide to a guaranteed extraordinary year!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (November 11, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061673609
• ISBN-13: 978-0061673603
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #179,211 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Looking through the Net is cheaper, August 14, 2009

By	D.E. Wray (Tokyo) - See all my reviews

I write this review on 14 August 2009. I read four or five books per week, and this is the worst book I have read this year. I bought it on sale at a fifth the list price, and I wasted my money. The book saddened me because it is such a waste of paper.
There are many kinds of bad books: badly written ones, poorly researched ones, poorly thought out ones, and even poorly proofread ones. This book is bad because (a) the author has nothing to say, has no points to make at all and (b) it seems to comprise nothing but a bunch of rewritten Wikipedia entries. Please stay away from this.
The hundred or so pages I read I read while waiting in a government office for about four hours. Eventually, I put the book down and concentrated on watching, again and again, a video on immigration being looped, with the sound off, on a video screen with a bad tube.
As far as I can gather, the book is a guide to passing for cultured or what have you when you are both undereducated and too lazy to do anything about it.
Meanwhile, I'm reading Life Of John Maynard Keynes and Any Sound You Can Imagine: Making Music/Consuming Technology (Music/Culture). Read either of those (or just about anything else, including newspaper supermarket circulars) instead of this.