The Dress Doctor: Prescriptions for Style, From A to Z
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.30 (789 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0061450650 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 80 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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No content; not worth purchasing This book has a great title, but no content. There are a few sentences per page, and the suggestions are very dated (i.e. as in, what to wear to the bowling alley). Don't waste time on this book. Very shallow and you can go through it in 30 minutes.. EBK said Disappointing. As I read it, I thought - this is just a magazine article stretched out into a book. Then I discovered that it was just some excerpts from a longer book. Even the forward is double-spaced to make it look longer.The "invaluable tips" are just a list of what types of clothing to wear for various activities, i.e. "skirt, blouse, and sweater; dress with sweater."Don't waste your money.. This is an "adaptation" of the original - not the original book. Kindle Customer I was disappointed in this book. My expectation was that this book was the complete version of the Dress Doctor. Instead it was an "adaptation". So, it had some okay information and stories. I really wanted the original, unabridged version. Perhaps, I did not read the 'fine print' as well as I should have. I'm sorry I bought this one. The service from Amazon and the seller was great!
Long before Rachel Zoe, Andrea Leibermann, Estee Stanley, and Nicole Chavez were styling Hollywood celebrities, eight-time Oscar Award-winning Edith Head was the sartorial sensation behind the silver screen’s most high-profile stars and starlets. The Dress Doctor, adapted from her 1959 autobiography and enhanced with lavish illustrations of her most famous dresses by artist Bill Donovan, revisits the Golden Age of Hollywood with entertaining anecdotes about dressing some of the town’s biggest legends—Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Cary Grant, and Marlene Dietrich, to name a few. Edith Head was perhaps the most famous Hollywood costume designer of all time. In her lifetime, Head was also a sought-after authority by everyday women for her invaluable tips on dressing well: The Dress Doctor includes her witty observations and dispenses the no-nonsense timeless advice for which she was legendary.
From the Back CoverLong before celebrity stylists became as renowned as the Oscar-winning film stars they advise, the legendary costume designer Edith Head was dressing Hollywood's most fashionable women and men on screen and off—and lending her sartorial wisdom to women across the country on radio and television. Fashion illustrator Bil Donovan's stunning re-creations of Head's most famous gowns, along with illustrations of myriad other stylish ensembles, bring the designer's work vividly to life again, along with Hollywood icons Grace Kelly, Katharine Hepburn, Mae West, Cary Grant, and many others. Her pre
During her forty-four years at Paramount Studios, she dressed Hollywood's biggest stars and created some of the most iconic fashion images on film. She also dispensed her advice to countless women through newspaper columns, magazine articles, television and radio shows, and her two books, The Dress Doctor and How to Dress for Success. She is honored with a star on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame, along with other lumi