The Style Strategy: A Less-Is-More Approach to Staying Chic and Shopping Smart
February 9, 2010- ISBN13: 9780061834011
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
“This book is written to help propel you forward, into that place where style and shopping are one. Neither can thrive without the other pulling its proper weight. Effortlessly balancing the two is your mission.” From much-loved fashion maven and New York Times bestselling author Nina Garcia comes her most indispensable style primer yet-this one focused on looking timelessly chic, all while saving money! Armed with Nina’s no-fail The Style Strategy, fashionista…
okay the information may already be out there, BUT the art work is great and besides it is good to still hear and reinstill in us old rules and new rules and the breaking of old rules…and shopping techniques. This is a good book. I liked it. It is witty and colorful and a lot like the first two that I did not give such favorable reviews. Okay… I admit I tried to go back and change the stars on the first two books to five stars as the books had to grow on me. I was too quick with the keyboard the first two books BUT the system does not let me change my stars when I tried to edit my old reviews on the first two books. Really the books have to grow on you, so, please do not judge too quickly. I found Nina’s series to be good read for trips. Small light weight books, quick reads to pick up and put down and pick up again while riding in a car. Hey Nina, please do a more detailed book on color theory and make it for more than 4 groups please. I think mother nature made a few mistakes with my coloring. Fair skinned, brown eyes, as a baby I was blonde but as an adult It turned dark JUST so it could go gray on me, and I have pink cheeks and no freckles with blue circles around my brown eyes with green and yellow mixed in. ANY color experts out there please help me!One color specialist in NC said was a winter (too harsh), a decade later in CA I was told I was a Summer (too orchid-sad). A decade later I was told in DC that I am a Mute (too dirtly looking and real sad).
Rating: 5 / 5
I found this book very interesting. Nina writes in plain English, makes specific suggestions on how to dress without being a slave to trends, and making us think that we need to buy the $100 T-shirt.
Rating: 4 / 5
If you’ve read her other two books, you’ve read everything she has to say! This new one is redundant, confusing and contradictory. Her charming sense of humor is completely absent – was there some deadline? Was it ghost-written? The illustrations are lovely, too bad the rest of the book is not.
Rating: 1 / 5
If you have never read a fashion advice book nor looked at fashion magazines, this might be a good beginning. However, if you have any interest in the subject, you probably will already know everything Garcia has to say. You also likely will feel that it’s better expressed in many other books and magazine columns. On the other hand, the illustrations are zany as well as entertaining and the suggested websites listed in the back are useful.
Rating: 2 / 5
I have also read Nina’s The One Hundred: A Guide to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own and The Little Black Book of Style and I agree this is her weakest book.
The advice is quite simple. Tailoring, take care of your clothes… as another reviewer said, these are not new or profound thoughts on style. I read the book in one day in a couple hours.
She does have a sections focused on “What you have?” “What you need?” and “What you want?” Unfortunately, she doesn’t go into a lot of detail on these topics. In summary, “What you have?” is just look in your closet and keep your favorites (old & new). “What you need?” is an abridged version of her book The One Hundred: A Guide to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own… really, The One Hundred is a better book in this regard about basics. And then “What you want?” she doesn’t really talk about at all. Just funky, unique accessories to spice up your basics wardrobe, but she leaves the real details up to the reader’s preference.
There is a section in the back of the book where she lists her favorite fashion websites and also stores… there is a good mix there and it could be the best part of the book.
Overall, it’s not a bad book at all……. but it’s really nothing special either. I do love the illustrations and it is a basic primer of common sense really.
I was happy that in this book Nina was advocating faux fur as opposed to in The Little Black Book of Style where she was advocating real fur. I know the fashion world doesn’t care much about animal cruelty, but it does repulse me to see someone advocate real fur. Good improvement!
Rating: 3 / 5