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You Are What You Wear: What Your Clothes Reveal About You (2012)

by Jennifer Baumgartner(Favorite Author)

3 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0738215201 (ISBN13: 9780738215204)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Da Capo Lifelong Books

review 1: Groan! I was expecting something well-researched and original, but like THE LOST ART OF DRESS or Alison Lurie's THE LANGUAGE OF CLOTHES. This was warmed-over pop psychology with some fashion tips thrown in delivered in breathless Cosmo Girl-speak. OK, maybe that last wasn't fair -- there were no italics, but there could have been. It was that type of book. Grumble. I made it through, but only just.
review 2: This book was engrossing for me. I usually like books with pictures, but this was more about the person who wears the clothes than the garments themselves. Fads change, but who you are, and why/what you wear are things you have control over. I really enjoyed being introduced to different ways to think about why we care what we wear, because sometimes, ... moreI honestly don't. This book is about presentation, about rhetoric, about what we're communicating and how we can become empowered by directing the messages that we're sending to others. less

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