How to get dressed
Subtitle: a costume designer's secrets for making your clothes look, fit, and feel amazing
By: Alison Freer ; illustrations by Julia Kuo
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781607747062
Subjects: Fashion; Clothing and dress; Handbooks, manuals
Description: "An ingenious book of simple wardrobe solutions, clever tools, and straightforward advice from a Hollywood costume designer. A costume designer's styling kit is a magical bag of tricks, built to solve every single wardrobe malfunction on earth. TV and film productions wait for nothing, so a costume designer's solutions have to work--and work fast. How to Get Dressed is a fun, empowering style guide for women that focuses on making the most of your wardrobe. Costume designer and XOJane fashion columnist Alison Freer provides real-world, no-BS style advice covers everything a girl could need to know: from determining if your clothes are fitting properly to how to care for, maintain, and keep your garments organized--plus what to do when the inevitable fashion disaster strikes. Full of hundreds of insider tricks from Freer's endless arsenal of tools and expertise, How to Get Dressed teaches you to rethink your wardrobe like a fashion expert--and proves once and for all that you don't need to spend a ton of money to always look your best. You just need to use the tricks the pros do!"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Good clothes open all doors; title: Movie magic: or, Why movie stars look like movie stars; title: Fit: the true enemy of great style; title: Alter your clothes, alter your life; title: Be your own costume designer; title: Dumb fashion rules that were made for breaking; title: Wardrobe tools to keep your look together; title: Dressing for success is dead; title: Closet hacks: store your clothes like wardrobe girls do; title: Underthings: you really only need a few; title: Laundry: you're doing it wrong; title: Shoe care for all your footwear; title: Old stuff: a guide to shopping vintage and thrift; title: Dudes, this one's for you; title: Go ahead, sit on the grass: stain glossary; title: Take care of what you've got: fabric care glossary.