| Description |
xviii, 234 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
Accessories: going to hell in a handbag -- Advertising: how it spins the fashion axis -- Animal print: when women roar -- Ankle boots: so wrong and yet, and yet -- Antiaging -- Bags: a word or ten thereon -- Ballet pumps: twee versus comfort -- Bathing suits, and how so little can reveal so much -- Beauty treatments, and the etiquette thereof -- Best-dressed lists: the myths and the madness -- Black: the new and the old -- Blahnik, Manolo -- Blouses: not so librarian now, are they? -- Boots: the normal kind with a couple of variations -- Cardigans: a trend in action -- Celebrities, and when bad ones happen to good fashion -- Classics with a twist -- Cleavage, and the plumbing depths -- Clutch "bag" -- Coats stuck at the nexus between dull and stressful -- Dates, and why they are the one event where you really don't need to worry about what you wear -- Decade rehashing, and why designers live in the past -- Dresses: God's gift to women -- Drugs, the role thereof -- Ethnic clothes -- Exercise clothes: the new couture -- Fashion shows: Darwin in motion -- Fashionspeak -- Festivals, and why they're a bit like being pregnant -- Films about fashion, and why they are all (mainly) rubbish -- Flat boots -- Fur: bad -- G-strings, and the female lie -- Get: fashion that girls do and boys don't -- Glasses, and why men will still make passes -- Hair accessories: gimmicks for reluctant adults -- Haircuts: the meaning beneath the layers -- Hair extensions, and when you realize you no longer understand the young -- Haute couture: taking self-indulgence to a whole new level -- Heels: the highs, the lows, and when fat is better than thin -- Hems: the highs and lows (part 2) -- Jacobs, Marc: genius or what? -- Jeans: not as bulletproof as they tell you -- Jewelry, and when fashion just gets obnoxious -- Lagerfeld, Karl, and why he's so brilliant -- Late, fashionably, and just rude -- Layering, the whats and hows of -- Leather jackets, and the delusion of the middle-aged man -- Limits, age, and what's (allegedly) acceptable when -- Lingerie, and the importance or otherwise of an audience -- Logos: the bleating of the insecure -- Low-slung belts, and the point thereof -- Magazines, fashion, and women's masochistic love thereof -- Make-up: the tears of a clown -- Manicures, pedicures, and the ever-rising bar of personal upkeep -- Masculinity, and the clothes that challenge it -- Mass market fashion, and the changing face thereof -- Mittens, and the enduring appeal of pedophile-friendly chic -- Models -- Money, and when to spend it -- Moss, Kate, and how she ruined your wardrobe -- Pantyhose, stockings, and the pleasures of a chastity belt -- Party dresses, and what yours say about you -- Party shirts: the fun-lovin' guy's staple -- Patterns - or test patterns? -- Pink -- Plastic surgery, and how all those 1950s B movies weren't so far off the mark -- Prada: the frumpy but fashionable -- Red carpet, and what we can learn from it -- Ruffles: from French ingénue to Bozo the Clown -- Sex and the city: what it gave us and what it didn't -- Shorts, and why they're so great -- Signature style -- Sizing: the nonexistent myth -- Sunglasses, the meaning of -- Thin knits -- Toes, and what the shape says about you -- Trench coats -- Vanity, and the joys thereof -- Velvet, and why it should be banned -- Vintage -- Volume, and the ironic cruelty of the oversized cut -- Yoga, detoxes, and other euphemisms for exercise and diets. |
| Subject |
Sunglasses.
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Fashion.
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| ISBN |
9780670018673 |
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0670018678 |
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