If you were to own only one “what (not) to wear” book, this is the one to buy! It is a college art text. Formerly no less than $68, Amazon now has sells it for quite a bit less
Book Description
This text aims to teach the reader how to assess her body type and then choose clothing that looks good on her. The process involves what the authors call an individual’s “design pattern.” This pattern is made up of lines, shapes, proportions, body particulars, scale, colors, and textures. How they fit together in harmony and how an individual infuses them with her innate creativity is what authors call “style.”Text Features:1.Principles of art as they apply to understanding and enhancing the female body
2.Art reproductions from museums such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Musee du Louvre, illustrating women’s body forms and surface features
3.Hundreds of line drawings suggest contemporary wardrobe strategies
4.Two color wheels and pages of charts for skin, eye, and hair color.
5. Provides color swatches to create a color wheel
Personally, after studying this book, I have found that there is a way to figure out any “what-to-wear” problem “from scratch”, providing freedom from the legalism of following somebody else’s list of “shoulds” and “how-tos”.
If you’ve been considering taking the plunge, now could be the time! (My copy was a birthday gift from my hero.)
I looked for this book for a very long time at a reasonable price. The first time I found it I had to wait a day for a paycheck to be deposited and lost it. The second time my son pointed out I didn’t click fast enough. It took me a year of searching to finally be able to purchase it.
WoW $14 for a used one! My used copy was much, much more and the only one I could find in a library was in another state.
This is one of the best books you could ever buy on image – it’s one I recommend to all my students. It’s worth everypenny. There are so many average books out there on image and style, but each time I read Triumph, I get something new out of it which changes the way I think about clothes and bodies.
That is one of THE BEST books I have ever purchased! I bought it new and spent the full $35. I have no regrets. I use it now to help my sewing protégées understand proportion, design and color in the clothes they make. LOVE IT!