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Summary: Thank You
Review: "What do you mean red is not a power color? Kate and Malcolm have a refreshing and groundbreaking take on not only color myths, but just about everything else that has anything to do with image. Thank you two for helping me understand what inner style is and how to define it."
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Summary: I loved this book!!!!
Review: 10 Steps To Fashion Freedom demystifies the world of style and image. It makes looking and feeling good more accessible and less intimidating. I loved the section on inner style, I found it inspirational and empowering. I now feel confident about making my own unique style statement - from the inside out. I highly recommend this book to anyone (male or female) who wants to express themselves authentically.
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Summary: I highly recommend this book !!!
Review: About time! I've been hoping a book like this would come along. I'm not exactly fashionable, or even stylish, but I do however want to feel more "together". This book tells it like it is: one's personal style comes from developing it from the inside out - not from a conventional makeover. Feeling and being "together" comes from learning what together is for you.This book may disappoint the "quick fix" audience, because it treats image with a respect and thoughtfulness that we are not accustomed to. Kate and Malcolm's book is a personal image journey, and like any journey, getting there can be challenging. Like most of the things in our lives we crave: health, success, confidence, etc., for most of us they don't come easy - we usually have to work at them. Having read this book, I'm beginning to understand why the way I present myself can only be improved by "me". This book has taught me how to enhance my assets and make improvements on the less than perfect aspects of myself. If you want to feel as though you are doing your best to feel and appear your best, this book is for you. On a very practical note, the chapters on how to shop and analyze your closet were very informative and great fun! I'll never look at myself in the same way again. I feel renewed and empowered, thanks to both of you.
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Summary: 10 steps to fashion freedom
Review: As a psychotherapist, there are numerous times I've consulted with men and women on how they come across to others. This book was interesting to me both personally (I immediately cleaned out my closet with a new focus on the kind of person I want to be today)and professionally. It will be an excellent book to refer my clients to, which is how I intend to use it. The writing is clear and the examples made me realize how off track I've been in the past regarding my personal appearance. All my other books had to wait while I eagerly finished this one. I recommend it to anyone interested in developing, changing or maintaining their own style.
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Summary: Fashion freedon perhaps but only for a few
Review: I am 27 years old and in something of a transition stage with my wardrobe and I thought that this would be the book for me. This book does offer some useful advice. It encourages the readers to determine who they are and what they want to project before shopping and it does give some pointers for looking for quality garments. These are helpful. They do use a number of technical terms and illustrations and/or line drawings would help to illustrate this and would help people to distinguish between terms. My main complaint is that this book mainly seems to be written for people who are either corporate or sartorially clueless or a mixture of both. Being neither of these, it was only moderately helpful.
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Summary: I want my money back!
Review: I bought this book because I thought it would give me some practical advice about how to improve my fashion sense, but it was a real dissapointment. There are no photos or illustrations as examples of what the authors are talking about. And often I wondered what they were talking about?! This seems to be almost a combination of new age/psychology mumbo jumbo, with topics like "body talk" and "image wounds." I found the "icon exercise" exhausting. And while some sections, like finding good quality fabrics, were helpful there were too few of these to make the book one I could reccomend. The book is also long, and is often a tough read. So even though I'm into style and fashion and buy lots of books in this field, this one is good idea that just doesn't deliver.
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Summary: DRESSING WELL FROM THE INSIDE OUT
Review: I HIGHLY recommend this book to every man or woman who: -compares their insides to other people's outsides
-doesn't feel good about the way they look
-cannot find the key to expressing their true self in clothing
-wants to overcome old body and clothing messages and
-is ready for an inspirational and evolutionary change. Malcolm and Kate have taken thier years of professional experience and turned it into a one-to-one personalized teaching in the 10 lessons in their book. They guide you with compassion, skill, and respect through deeper levels of self-knowledge, self-awareness, and self-appreciation. From that, they help you distill your new knowledge into a concise - and practical - understanding of how to express your inner qualities in your outer dress. They empower you to make changes slowly, gently, and with great enjoyment. I had fun doing the lessons and learned a great deal. After three months, I now find other areas of my life improving as well. So do yourself a favor and do the work they suggest to reap the rewards. Malcolm and Kate offer you an evolutionary and inspirational aproach to true self-expression. This book is a gift.
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Summary: Surprisingly good!
Review: I like to read fashion books for fun, and was expecting this one to be more of the same. It isn't! Its introspective quality may irritate some people: I thought it was going to irritate me, because I hate self-help books, but I really enjoyed it. If you're looking for a book about clothes, this is probably not the book for you; it will not tell you what style fits your body type, or what fabrics are better than others. It will help you discover your relationship to your clothing, and help you develop that relationship to a point where you don't have to think about it anymore. The goal is to make dressing and shopping easier as well as better suited to you. Be warned: this book has exercises you are expected to accomplish before proceeding to subsequent steps, but I found them fun and useful. If you're looking for something different, you might give this a shot.
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: I love books on fashion and style and I read them all. This book really got to the heart of personal style. I thoroughly enjoyed finding out more about myself and incorporating what I discovered into a style statement. This was truly about making myself better, not making myself different. I liked the idea of the journal and I will use it often in many aspects of my life. This was a very readable, intelligent book that has made a difference in my view of style and fashion, and my individuality.
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Summary: Real Style
Review: I really enjoyed this book and can recommend it to anyone interested in the great personal debate of what to wear, when, and where. Given the nature of the subject-matter most people are probably wary of another dose of superficial trivia, the type of dogmatic "do's and don'ts" that abound in most magazines, the standard "wear this-you're in, wear that-you're out" material. Instead this is a thoughtful, practical book that helps you develop and, therefore be comfortable with, your own personal sense of style. This book is based on the principle that it is not simply what you wear but more importantly, how you wear it. While it does provide plenty of advice on your clothing options it focuses first on helping you determine your own feelings and beliefs in relation to your appearance and the image you want to convey.
As such, it is quite an introspective look at fashion -it seeks to bridge that gap between what we may all aspire to in seeking to look our best and what we can also be at ease with, and so carry-off effectively.
Well-written and structured, the authors take you through a step-by-step process on this personal discovery (it's fun and relatively painless)-do join in and make the effort as the reward can be a better-informed and more confident, relaxed "you" on that next shopping trip or that next dressed-up occasion.
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