Dressing Nifty After Fifty

Dressing Nifty After Fifty
by Corinne Richardson

Dressing Nifty After Fifty
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Author: Corinne Richardson
Editor: Christine Frank
Illustrator: Shelley Dieterichs
Designer: Peggy Nehmen
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-11-03
ISBN: 0978663608
Number of pages: 188
Publisher: Willcott & Corn Books

Book Reviews of Dressing Nifty After Fifty

Book Review: Basic fashion advice with nothing specific for women over fifty
Summary: 1 Stars

I know there are women out there who don't have a clue about how to dress, I see them all the time. But the very basic (and often outdated) fashion advice in this book will do nothing to help them and to some extent might confirm them in many of their bad choices.

Bodies change as we age, the clothes which we could wear easily at 30 or 40 or even at 45 might no longer look good. On top of changing bodies, we may have difficulties that also affect the clothes we wear.

And, all too often, a problem is that we are stuck in a time warp wearing the styles we wore 20 or 30 years ago.

So what do we get in this book? Warmed over advice you could find in any magazine. A complete unawareness of changing bodies, thickened middles, and sagging jaws and breasts. This is a person who blithely says you can wear skirts of any length, not bothering to tell you that skirts above the knee make the middle-aged look like "mutton dressed as lamb" and that many mid-calf skirts make you look dowdy. She also quotes with approval the "Dress for Success" books and anyone who is old enough to remember stiff white blouses and floppy bows the first time they were popular shouldn't be wearing them.

If she is over 50, if she is successful as a consultant and seminar presenter on this topic, shouldn't she be able to give us good advice, or at least update these dictums?

The book is not all bad. Her advice about limiting colors and sticking to black, charcoal gray, and brown for basics is good. Following this advice will help many of the Boomer fashion victims I see around.

But if you want good advice, pictures of what works and what doesn't, something that will help YOU now over 50 and wondering how to dress, don't waste your money, there are better books.

Summary of Dressing Nifty After Fifty

Imagine owning the perfect wardrobe. It's easy with Dressing Nifty After Fifty, the definitive guide to a simple, stylish wardrobe.

Just as one size does not fit all, one wardrobe does not fit all. Unlike any other wardrobe book, the process outlined in Dressing Nifty After Fifty is highly individualized, asking the reader to start by making a list of her activities during a typical 14-day period. Next, she'll discover how to build a wardrobe on three basic colors, enhance her body shape with clothes, look thinner and taller, add spice to her outfits with her most flattering colors, and combine comfort and style with her shoes. To help the reader complete her ideal wardrobe plan, tips are included for closet cleanup, clothing maintenance, shopping, grooming, travel, and ways to stay gorgeous as time goes by.

By adopting this system of dressing, the reader will have a wardrobe for all of her activities. She will find that by concentrating on the quality, rather than the quantity, of her wardrobe, she will love and wear everything that she owns. Most important, she will gain a sense of control over her life, giving her the freedom to spend her energy and time on the things she wants to do and the people she loves.

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