How to Get Dressed
Books | Design / Fashion & Accessories
3.5
Alison Freer
Costume designer Alison Freer’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 her solutions have to work fast. In How to Get Dressed, Alison distills her secrets into a fun, comprehensive style guide focused on rethinking your wardrobe like a fashion expert and making what’s in your closet work for you. She provides real-world advice about everything style-related, including: • Making every garment you own fit better • Mastering closet organization • The undergarments you actually need • The scoop on tailors and which alterations are worth it • Shopping thrift and vintage like a rockstar Instead of repeating boring style “rules,” Alison breaks the rules and gets real about everything from bras to how to deal with inevitable fashion disasters. Including helpful information such as how to skip ironing and the dry cleaners, remove every stain under the sun, and help clueless men get their sartorial acts together, How to Get Dressed has hundreds of insider tips from Alison’s arsenal of tools and expertise.
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Author
Alison Freer
Pages
256
Publisher
Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
Published Date
2015-04-14
ISBN
1607747073 9781607747079
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"A surprisingly readable and useful book! Freer covers a huge territory from how to identify your style, how to break fashion “rules” (pro tip: granny panties are awesome and help avoid panty lines), how to identify a good fit, what alterations are possible and worth it, basics of men’s suiting, and how to do laundry - as well as a useful epilogue covering most fabric types and basic care of them, and a short stain removal index. I would highly recommend this book for anybody who wants to be empowered to better maintain their wardrobe so pieces they love can last forever! <br/><br/>Areas for improvement would be: Freer doesn’t consider clothing sustainability at all in this book. She could have touched on fast fashion, microfibre shed into water, slow fashion, sweatshops, etc without significantly changing the focus of this book. Especially since she spends so much time focusing on how to make your clothes last longer, I was surprised to see her happily admit to buying fast fashion and even dollar store clothes, and have a massive wardrobe full of items she doesn’t even remember buying. I’d also love to have her acknowledge more explicitly how her advice can apply to people of lower income levels, and fashion cultures different from the “mainstream” White American fashion. I think the possibility is strongly there, and would only require a few extra sentences!"
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Teresa Prokopanko