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A quick book rec...
...cut and pasted from a comment I left in another post:
Oh - The best book on fashion advice I've ever read is The Triumph of Individual Style, which does the remarkable thing of saying "If you've got a large butt and want to minimize it, do this. If you've got a large butt and want to feature it, do this." It doesn't subscribe to the idea that every other fashion book out there does, which is that there is One Ideal Figure and that people who don't match it should try to dress in ways to create the illusion of it.
I note the one bad review and the comment agreeing with it, on Amazon are both from fashion designers who don't understand that a rectangular-shaped woman might not want to create a waist, that she might want to emphasize the beauty of the form she's got, instead of aspiring to a form she doesn't have. They also complain about the dated-ness of the illustrations, which is understandable since the book was originally published in the early 1990s, but they seem incapable of reading the text and applying the principles to modern styles, like all good fashion designers ought to be able to do, IM-not-so-HO.
There's lots of illustrations from paintings of beautiful women of all body shapes and types in recent centuries illustrating the principles they're talking about, too.
ETA: Just changed the link to the correct one - it was going to a pic of Cloud from FInal Fantasy VII, from a previous comment wherein I was describing what my hair is currently doing. XD
Oh - The best book on fashion advice I've ever read is The Triumph of Individual Style, which does the remarkable thing of saying "If you've got a large butt and want to minimize it, do this. If you've got a large butt and want to feature it, do this." It doesn't subscribe to the idea that every other fashion book out there does, which is that there is One Ideal Figure and that people who don't match it should try to dress in ways to create the illusion of it.
I note the one bad review and the comment agreeing with it, on Amazon are both from fashion designers who don't understand that a rectangular-shaped woman might not want to create a waist, that she might want to emphasize the beauty of the form she's got, instead of aspiring to a form she doesn't have. They also complain about the dated-ness of the illustrations, which is understandable since the book was originally published in the early 1990s, but they seem incapable of reading the text and applying the principles to modern styles, like all good fashion designers ought to be able to do, IM-not-so-HO.
There's lots of illustrations from paintings of beautiful women of all body shapes and types in recent centuries illustrating the principles they're talking about, too.
ETA: Just changed the link to the correct one - it was going to a pic of Cloud from FInal Fantasy VII, from a previous comment wherein I was describing what my hair is currently doing. XD
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Why I have come out of lurkdom for this particular post, I do not know. When really I came here for the manga and Bleach anime commentary. Um. Hi.
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*waves* Hi! :D
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But I suppose there's more money in convincing women they fail to achieve perfection tha in convincing them they're perfect in their own way.
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ETA: Someone else has it out. D'oh! Must put in a hold request...
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Also, this gives me time to finish reading the three books I'm currently, well, reading.
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The book looks great, although the cover designer clearly has a thing for Campbell Soup.
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The version of the book I've got has a more cluttered cover - it's got the cover you see in the link, with part of a color wheel in the lower left corner behind the leg of the figure, and an orange bar with three pictures and comments excerpted from the book along the bottom above the authors' names. XD
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*runs to public library website to search for it*
*public library website craaaawls, then times out*
*cries*
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The line pictures are all late-80s style, which means you keep expecting them to flashdance or something, but you can read the text and apply that to clothes available now.
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Unfortunately, the Toronto library does *not* have the book, and it's looking too pricy for my budget. I'll keep an eye out for it elsewhere, though.
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But nice idea for a book. Tim Gunn's Guide to Style killed me as it spited its commercial tagline of "Your style, Tim's rules" by making every woman over to be clone of the others, just with some different hemlengths to take some body shape issues into account. Oh yes, and the insistence that you should wear high heels all the time and look as if you were born in them.
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