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The Grown-Up Girl's Guide to Style: A Maintenance Bible for Fashion,
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Turning forty, fifty, or sixty is not about getting older, it's about
becoming ageless . . .
Renowned style expert and fashion consultant Christine Schwab sees
aging as an opportunity to revitalize your style and enliven your
attitude. In her frank, opinionated, and provocative style, she writes
the book that defies many of the fashion and beauty industry
philosophies.
Now more than ever, women have the ability to look and feel fresh,
chic, and fabulous at any age, simply by understanding age
maintenance. Schwab is adamant that with all this new ageless
information and technology, it is imperative to be informed about what
works and what does not..
In this honest and empowering book, she offers the first open-minded
approach to style, beauty, health, and well-being that will help every
forty-plus woman achieve a classic look while maintaining her edge and
personality.
A personal stylist and support group within a book, The Grown-Up
Girl's Guide to Style addresses every aspect of aging, from hair and
makeup to sex and family life. Straightforward and candid, Schwab even
embraces once taboo subjects, offering the lowdown from leading
doctors and surgeons on injectable skin treatments, cosmetic surgery
and dentistry, and hormone replace-ment therapy. Accompanying her
eye-opening advice are dozens of fun, revealing photographsincluding
celebrity profiles, woman-on-the-street snapshots, stunning
professional photography, and even personal photographs of Schwab
herselfthat demonstrate style disasters (sleeveless tops, head-to-toe
denim, and more), and dazzling triumphs.
The Grown-Up Girl's Guide to Style holds the ultimate insider's
secrets to a beautiful, sexy, and healthy life after forty. An
essential book for the modern "grown-up girl," it is sure to
dramatically rejuvenate the already-stylish, the
aspiring-to-be-stylish, and the simply style-challenged woman in her
prime.
About the Author
Christine Schwab is one of the world's leading lifestyle and fashion
reporters. She has appeared on Today, Entertainment Tonight, Oprah,
NBC Nightly News, CNBC, E!, and Fox, and is a regular contributor to
Live with Regis and Kelly. She has also been a spokesperson for many
of the country's leading fashion and beauty companies, including Estee
Lauder, Revlon, LensCrafters, T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, and more. She
lives in Beverly Hills and Newport Beach, California, with her
husband, Shelly.
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* Hardcover: 224 pages
* Publisher: Collins (September 26, 2006)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 006078458X
* ISBN-13: 978-0060784584
* Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.1 x 0.9 inches
* Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Guide to hiding your "old" self, May 12, 2007
By
C. L. Ferle (Midwest Reader and Writer)
(REAL NAME)
I agree with the reviewers who were disappointed in this book. While
it's beautifully presented and there were a few excellent fashion tips
for "women of a certain age," there were so many "DON'Ts" that I ended
up feeling worse about my aging body, even though I am not overweight
and enjoy nice clothes. For starters, unless your feet and arms are
model perfect, you are instructed not to wear open toed shoes,
sandals, or sleeveless tops. If your neck is droopy, conceal it under
a scarf. (Should I hide in the house all summer, or sweat it out in
"cover-up" clothes and shoes...?)
Secondly, if the crisply tailored "working gal" look isn't your thing,
then this book probably isn't for you. There is little room here for
real personal style, unusual accessories, or free-spirited artistic
expression. Yes, I also love white shirts, tailored pants and jackets,
and other classics -- which are emphasized in this book. But is
wearing a uniform what it's really all about? And yes, I know I don't
look good in short skirts and shorts -- so I usually avoid them. Yet I
don't think aging means I have to dress like everyone else. Where's
the fun and freedom of personal style?
Apparently the Dove campaign for real beauty and pro-aging hasn't hit
the fashion world yet, because this is not the only book or magazine
that promotes such limited fashion options for the older woman. Most
of us over 45 are still feeling as though we will never measure up to
Madison Avenue perfection, and that we have a lot to cover up and be
ashamed of. What a shame.
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Guide To Feeling Bad About Yourself, May 10, 2007
By
Shirley Braley "ravenous reader" (Arlington, MA United States)
(REAL NAME)
If you want to find lots of reasons why your body is inadequate, this
is just the book for you. This book is NOT about maintenance!
Maintenance would cover topics like skin care, exercise, hydration,
sleeping well, etc. This book is about how disgusting you will look as
you age; the author believes that women become frumpier, dumpier, and
lumpier the older they get.
The advice on skin care is: don't get any sun. If you already have,
too late honey! Facial expressions can lead to wrinkles over time, so
get through every day as deadpan as possible. Sleeping? Lying on your
side can leave "creases" from your pillow "even with silk sheets". If
you must sleep, do it on your back. (She admits it is hard to sleep
this way.)
The advice on just about everything else: cover it up. Under no
circumstances should you wear anything that shows more than two inches
of skin anywhere. This includes your neck; keep in covered with a
scarf, even in summer. Shorts? Don't wear them, even in exercise,
because you will have a visible panty line. Her advice for this is to
wear thong underwear. Ouch! During a workout? Has she ever actually
tried that?
In fact, if you must have parts of your body exposed, for instance
during love-making, she recommends keeping the light turned off.
Fully half of the book is advice about what kinds of plastic surgery
you will need, along with many other cosmetic dermatological
procedures. For instance, to "plump up" your lips, you can have
collagen injected into them, after which the surgeon sticks his
fingers into your mouth to "move the silicon into the correct position
- imagine silly putty!"
I kept waiting for her to mention the #1 most important factor in a
gracefully-aged appearance: genetics. The word is not mentioned. The
idea seems to be that if you are genetically prone to wrinkles, extra
weight around the middle, or big ankles, either have surgery or hide
all your "flaws". In fact the author is obsessed with how flawed
women's bodies are in general.
If you are convinced that everyone in the world is looking at you and
will actually care if you have veins in your feet, there is some good
advice here.
For those of us who have more to do during the day than constantly
touching up our makeup between dashes to the botox clinic, read just
about anything except this.
My advice to the author would be to spend some of that surgery money
on a good therapist who could help her find out why she thinks
self-worth depends on how few wrinkles you have on your face.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Good - But Not Quite What I Expected, December 14, 2006
By
C. Clark (Upstate NY USA)
(REAL NAME)
If you're looking for a book that is more "fashion" oriented, this
isn't it. The fashion advice is more "what not to wear" than
suggestions of what to actually wear - and I need it spelled out!
Advice offered primarily concerns camouflage - bad arms, ditch the
sleeveless tops - but I suspect Schwab's standards are pretty high - I
didn't see anything wrong with Christie Brinkley's arms in the "don't"
photo...
I found the other sections on hair, makeup, health interesting -
specific products and tips are given but not a lot of how-tos - Schwab
pretty much tells you the basics and leaves it to you to use the
tips/info in a way that suits your tastes best.
The section on cosmetic surgery is honest if not a little
depressing...this kind of thing gives me the creeps but if you have
the desire and the money, I guess that's the world we live in now. Her
advice on various procedures will steer you in the right direction.
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