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Trinny and Susannah Take on America: What Your Clothes Say About You
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Rating:  - Re-forming Tomboy
What Not to Wear is about dressing your body shape. What Not to Wear for Every Occasion is about dressing appropriately for a given situation. Take on America is about breaking out of your fashion rut and revamping it into something that is comfortable and stylish.
By showing you how to wear clothes that fit, disguise your bodily imperfections, use color where there was none before, and wear updated clothing, Trinny and Susannah give you the knowledge to make slow transformations toward your ultimate goal.
I used to BE their "stereotypical" Tomboy. I'm not comfortable wearing pink, frills, lace, and glitter. This book showed me how to adapt my style into something I feel safe wearing, but is still main-stream fashionable and catches the eye of the guy that didn't notice me before.
Since then, I've passed this book on to the "Look at Me, Boys!" girl at work, my VERY "Married for Years" mother-in-law, and my "I like a Natural Look" Mom. "What's the Point" Neighbor, you're next.
Rating:  - Makes over sterotypes and not real women
I got this book after reading What not to Wear in hopes that it would give me some more fashion advice. I was sadly mistaken. The book show streotyical pictures of the stressed out house wife, the over worked business owner and makes them over. It has funny remarks about how differnt times make you and the impressions they give off. However, it is not as goood as What not to wear as far as the advice.
You don't get the specifics as to what you can do at home to make you look good. You don't learn how to comaflauge diffent body parts and assencute others. You don't learn how to create a wonderful overall style you just get a laugh at sterotypes that are somewhat over exaggerated.
Rating:  - Missed the mark for me...American women are not space aliens!
I found myself mildly ticked off and saw what the authors were trying to do with their opening remarks on the introduction page... "Where were we to hunt down the track-suited lady who had devoted her life to Krispy Kremes? Not on the streets of London or Liverpool."
Folks, over 1 in 5 of the British population is obese, track suits are commonly worn by a good chunk of the population, and even funnier yet -- they're wearing American brands, American labels, and even NY Yankees hats and NBA jerseys. Don't fall into the trap of these two high-class British women trying to save you from your own apparently "unique American style" that evidently makes you such a slob that needs fixing. How would I know this? Living in NY my whole life and seeing tourists, and then spending 3 years on and off in many parts of England opened up my eyes.
They really DO offer some good fashion advice. But, it is not adapted to American living in some ways, garnered with plenty of snarky personal attacks on their "models." I am a high school teacher. Wearing heels, heels, heels (what is their obsession?) is NOT practical, especially not at 5'10'' and size 12W feet standing around in front of a white board all day. The styling in the book looked way too much like what I actually saw on the high streets of London and Liverpool, and not like Bloomingdales, Saks, or even Macy's that you'd find in NY or another large city.
I would have liked it more if it were not about trying to turn clothing choices of comfort into this overwhelmingly intricate psychological profile on each model. If someone is having problems with their sex life and they're not dressing sexy because they have several children, putting some new clothing on them may give a temporary boost but it's not solving a deeper problem. Etc, etc. That's just my two cents.
Rating: - yet another
I can't believe they're still managing to milk the same darn cow. The cheek. What will they come up with next? Europe by geographical area or something like that? I don't see how anyone can take advice from two women who seem to live in 6 inch heels - I know I look much taller (sic!) and slimmer when I don a pair for a dinner where I know I'be ferried to and fro. Or from a woman who must have once been told that she should never wear a bra and should always wear tops made of fabric that makes it obvious..... Please.
Rating: - Not worth the money
Don't get me wrong I'm a huge fan of the authors. But this is just a fund raiser for them between jobs. It took about 15 minutes to look through, and I thought I must have missed something. So I really sat down to go through the book and it took me less than an hour. So dissapointed. At least in the TV series you got a look at several outfits that would suit the individual, but in this book you get a set-up bad shot and then "how wonderful" only one after shot. You get Trinny and Susannah hiding behind wigs and glasses. If this had been their first book, this would have also have been their last!!
If you like examples and photos for every body type check out Bradley Bayou "The Science of Sexy", what a resource of what to wear for casual, career and formal. It shows you how to be all covered up, but looking good.
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