Frumpy to Foxy in 15 Minutes Flat: Style Advice for Every Woman-Elycia Rubin, Rita Mauceri

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Frumpiness is a fact of life...frizzy hair days, blotchy skin days, big and bloated days. But women everywhere can take solace in the fact that they're not the only ones who get "the frumps"-EVERYONE does! Women's magazines have built an enormous business around this fact, from Glamour's catty "Dos and Don'ts" feature to the recent Star magazine cover feature on "Stars Without Makeup."
Elycia Rubin and Rita Mauceri to the rescue! Contrasting frumpy "before" illustrations and commentary with the foxy "after" pics, Elycia and Rita show you how to avoid looking frumpy in all situations.

Frumpy to Foxy in 15 Minutes Flat, will show women how to ditch the frumpies and drape themselves in foxy for every life situation, from working out to going out.

So what are you waiting for? Let Elycia and Rita help you get foxified!

Does This Make Me Look Fat?: The Definitive Rules for Dressing Thin for Every Height, Size, and Shape- Leah Feldon, Leigh Ann Davis

Review
“Words to live by . . . This chatty, entertaining illustrated volume by fashion guru [Leah] Feldon . . . offers up some useful skinny on looking svelte.” —People

“Follow these rules to banish the ‘F’ word from your vocabulary forever.” —Glamour

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American Fashion - Charlie Scheips

AN OPULENT HISTORY OF THE WAY WE DRESS, October 28, 2007
By Gail Cooke (TX, USA) - See all my reviews

What a lush, lovely, can't help-looking-at volume! If you like fashion, you'll find something to oooh and ahhh over on all 318 pages of this coffee table gem, an opulent history of fashion in America.

We begin with 1930s Hollywood and New York at a time when there was much to celebrate - the end of Prohibition. Nylon stockings were first introduced, and Eleanor Roosevelt, who supported the fashions of the times, was First Lady.

How Not to Look Old: Fast and Effortless Ways to Look 10 Years Younger, 10 Pounds Lighter, 10 Times Better

From Publishers Weekly
Krupp, style expert for the Today Show and former beauty director for Glamour, offers easy-to-follow, tried-and-true fashion advice for women well beyond their 20s. Presented in eye-catching, highly skimmable, fashion-magazine style, here's how to trade in the things that scream old lady (simply OL in the book) for a look that's younger and hipper (Y&H). Krupp is straightforward about the physical shortcomings of older age. Aptly (and sometimes rather brutally) she steers readers away from these OL pitfalls. She is quick to point out that fashion that works on 20-somethings looks ridiculous on older women (i.e., bare midriffs, go-go boots and tattoos). As much about what to do as what not to do, some of the tips are as easy as wearing pink lipstick, a bra that fits properly and hair with bangs. Others take more thought, time and money like Botox shots, chemical peels and hair extensions. Whether high or low maintenance about their beauty routine, women of a certain age who want to compete in our youth-obsessed culture will treat this easy read with interest. (Jan.)
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Glamour of the Gods: Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation [GLAMOUR OF THE GODS]

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A treat for fans and scholars alike, Glamour of the Gods is a massive survey of Hollywood photo-portraiture from the industry's golden age--1920-1960. All photographs are drawn from the extraordinary archive of the John Kobal Foundation in London. John Kobal was the last century's preeminent authority on Hollywood photography, as well as the first collector (and later author) to recognize photography's decisive role in creating and marketing Hollywood stars. Studio portraits and film stills contributed greatly to the glamour of the film industry in this period, especially in the heyday of the studio system (1920-1950). It was these images, as much the films they publicized, that transformed actors and actresses into international style icons.

10WYS - Geertje Couwenbergh, Lisette

Vergeet succes en zelfs geluk: WIJSHEID is het nieuwe statussymbool van Generatie Y! Maar...wat is wijsheid?Ons leven is geweldig, maar soms ook pijnlijk. Wat maakt liefde zo lastig? Hoe kunnen we betere keuzes maken? Hoe gaan we om met ziekte, ouderdom en dood? Hoe kunnen we mindblowing sex hebben en tegelijkertijd de wereld redden? We zijn verward!Door onze wijsheidsspieren te trainen gaan we deze verwarring te lijf. In 10WYS (generatie Y +wijsheid) staan tien grote levensthemas centraal, van sexualiteit, pijn en geld tot spiritualiteit en liefde. Ontketen je eigen WYSheidsrevolutie met deze verfrissende mix van boeddhistische inzichten en praktische lifestyletips!. 10 WYS is ht boek voor deze tijd over liefde, lijden, lichaam, geld en sex en nog veel meer, sprankelend bekeken vanuit radicale spiritualiteit. Voor wie wil chillen bij het grote mysterie van ons leven.- Acharya Dr. Han F de Wit, auteur van De Verborgen Bloei. Het is een kunst om je te herinneren waar je van opengaat. Lees dit, en je krijgt daar fucking veel zin in. -Wende Snijders.

Bunny Williams' Scrapbook for Living (Boek)

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Bunny Williams is renowned for her glamorous design and atten­tion to every little detail in her clients’ homes. Using her incredible knowledge of design and decor, and drawing on her wealth of experience, Williams takes the reader through several homes room by room, showing creative ways to organize and add personal touches. From dining rooms (place a chest of drawers near the dining table to store flatware, napkins, place mats, and votives) to lighting (place sconces on the wall at eye level to cut the glare from ceiling lights), and pets (find interesting flat-bottom bowls for water—small Chinese fish bowls or the bottom of a porcelain tureen work perfectly!), Williams empowers the reader with her practical and inspiring tips for making a house a home.

Praise for Bunny Williams' Scrapbook for Living:

"chock full of beautiful, instructive pictures . . . many nuggets of practical advice"
-- The New York Times

Jamie Drake's New American Glamour - Jamie Drake, William Waldron (Boek)

From Publishers Weekly
Everything about this volume—from the cover and Waldron's full-color photographs to the language in which it's written—is lush, rich and just a bit over-the-top. This befits the subject matter: the designs and philosophies of award-winning interior-designer-to-the-stars Drake. The entertaining introduction, complete with reproduced color drawings from Drake's childhood, explains the roots of the author's fascination with color and interiors, and describes his version of new American glamour, which derives in part from the motto of MGM's Louis B. Mayer: "Make it big! Do it right! Give it class!" The book then goes on to showcase dozens of splashy and vibrant rooms, and details from those rooms. It highlights themes important to Drake's work, including luster ("glamour at its most active... [it] compels light to dance around a room, which is a bit of wizardry in and of itself"), texture, color ("Everything that I do begins with color"), curves and "the mix" (which is all about "the olio of objects that reflects [clients'] personalities"). Opulent and expensive, the designs pictured and described certainly aren't meant to be prescriptions for do-it-yourself projects, but they do inspire creativity and render the concept of glamour on a bold scale. (Nov.)
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I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced - Nujood Ali, Delphine Minoui (Boek)

From Booklist
Chosen by Glamour magazine as a Woman of the Year in 2008, Nujood of Yemen has become an international hero for her astonishingly brave resistance to child marriage. Sold off by her impoverished family at the age of 10, continually raped by her husband before she even reached puberty, Nujood found the courage to run away, and with the help of an activist lawyer, sympathetic judges, and the international press, she divorced her husband and returned home. Her clear, first-person narrative, translated from the French and written with Minoui, is spellbinding: the horror of her parents’ betrayal and her mother-in-law’s connivance, the “grown-ups” who send the child from classroom and toys to nightmare abuse. She never denies the poverty that drives her parents and oppresses her brothers, even as she reveals their cruelty. Unlike her passive mother, she is an activist, thrilled to return to school, determined to save others, including her little sister. True to the child’s viewpoint, the “grown-up” cruelty is devastating. Readers will find it incredible that such unbelievable abuse and such courageous resistance are happening now. --Hazel Rochman

100 Recipes Every Woman Should Know: Engagement Chicken and 99 Other Fabulous Dishes to Get You Everything You Want in Life - Cindi Leive, Glamour (Boek)

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Once upon a time, there was an easy roast chicken recipe, handed down by a fashion editor at Glamour magazine to her assistant, who was in search of a dish to prepare for dinner with her boyfriend. She made the chicken. Her boyfriend loved it. He had seconds. And shortly thereafter, he proposed. But that's not all: Three more young women at the magazine made the chicken for the men in their lives who then, in short order, popped the question. Glamour published the recipe--dubbing it, naturally, Engagement Chicken--and since then, the magazine's editors have heard from more than 60 women who have gotten engaged after making the dish.

Commitment-phobes be warned: This bird means business!