How to Get Dressed
A Costume Designer's Secrets for Making Your Clothes Look, Fit, and Feel Amazing
Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed · Print & ebook · April 14, 2015
Costume designer Alison Freer’s styling kit is a magical bag of tricks, built to solve every single wardrobe malfunction on earth.
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- Who it’s for
- Practical dressing advice with a designer’s eye and a little backstage polish.
- Genres
- Style & Image, Fashion & Accessories, Fashion Crafts
- Published
- Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed, April 14, 2015
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Costume designer Alison Freer’s styling kit is a magical bag of tricks, built to solve every single wardrobe malfunction on earth. TV and film productions wait for nothing, so her solutions have to work fast. In How to Get Dressed, Alison distills her secrets into a fun, comprehensive style guide focused on rethinking your wardrobe like a fashion expert and making what’s in your closet work for you.
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She provides real-world advice about everything style-related, including: • Making every garment you own fit better • Mastering closet organization • The undergarments you actually need • The scoop on tailors and which alterations are worth it • Shopping thrift and vintage like a rockstar Instead of repeating boring style “rules,” Alison breaks the rules and gets real about everything from bras to how to deal with inevitable fashion disasters. Including helpful information such as how to skip ironing and the dry cleaners, remove every stain under the sun, and help clueless men get their sartorial acts together, How to Get Dressed has hundreds of insider tips from Alison’s arsenal of tools and expertise.
Designer’s Eye
Practical dressing advice with a designer’s eye and a little backstage polish.
Come here for
- costume-designer know-how
- fit, fabric, and finish
Expect
- clear, usable guidance
- reference-friendly structure
Where it sits
| Style & Image | 93% |
|---|---|
| Fashion & Accessories | 53% |
| Fashion Crafts | 53% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Fashion Crafts
- Fashion & Accessories
- Beauty & Grooming
- Authors
- Alison Freer
- Publisher
- Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
- Published
- April 14, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Fashion Crafts