Where to Wear 2005


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World renowned as the insider bibles for shopping, the Where to Wear guides are the essential authority on fashion shopping. These great guides show visitors where to begin and locals where to go next.




Where to Wear


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Insider shopping bibles written by top fashion journalists who live and shop in the cities they write about, each pocket-size directory features- individually researched critiques of clothes shops for men, women and children- high-street staples to heavyweight labels- hot new designers to neighborhood markets- alphabetically organized reviews- simple category indexes- neighborhood maps- convenient lunch spots- beauty salons, hairdressers, fitness studios, day spas




Dress Your Best


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The 8 million fans of TLC’s hottest show, What Not to Wear, know it as the place to go for real-life fashion advice. Now the show’s hosts, Clinton Kelly and Stacy London, offer spot-on fashion wisdom—with an attitude—in this fully illustrated, authoritative, and irreverent fashion guide to dressing your best for every occasion. Clinton and Stacy’s surefire method for boosting appearance rests on their belief that we can all win admiring glances by selecting clothes that play up our positives and create a balanced body shape. In Dress Your Best, Clinton and Stacy match a wide range of female and male body types with the perfect work, casual, and evening attire, showing you exactly how to make your best parts “work” for you. Dressing tips for 26 body types! Features 18 women and 8 men: bigger on top, bigger on bottom, a little extra in the middle, not curvy, extra curvy, small-framed, athletic, and more! Whether you’re searching for a way to accentuate your assets, puzzling over the right print pattern for your frame, or just looking for a solution to the dilemma “What do I need to wear to look fabulous?” you’ll find here the universal tips, dos and don’ts, seasonal alternatives, and must-haves that will deliver the answers. Dress Your Best is certain to become the standard by which all other fashion guides are measured.




Fashion, Retailing and a Bygone Era


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A look back into the publication, Women's Wear Daily, by seven former editors.







Appearance and Identity


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This book casts a critical look at the dominant position that fashion has come to occupy in contemporary society. It addresses various aspects of fashion in postmodern culture including makeup, cosmetic surgery, tattoos, ornament in dress and the blurring of gender boundaries.




Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry


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The Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry examines the origins and history of this billion-dollar industry. This is done through a list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced entries on designers, models, couture houses, significant articles of apparel and fabrics, trade unions, and the international trade organizations.




The Delineator


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Uniforms


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Presents a series of anecdotes that tell the history and meaning of American uniforms, identifying their cultural significance in terms of how uniforms unite and divide people as well as how they vary throughout the world.