View our feature on Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine's
What Not to Wear.
Looking good has nothing to do with fashion trends. It’s all about what not to wear...
Susannah and Trinny's straight-talking fashion advice has made them Britain's
best-known style duo. The sartorial sisters show how to develop personal style, while making the most of your body shape, hiding your defects and flaunting those assets!
This book touches upon what is shown in the series. Susannah and Trinny are not about fashion; they are about personal style-dressing for your body shape and personality—and this book shows you how.
what not to wear
Introduction
1. big boobs
2. no boobs
3. big arms
4. big butt
5. no waist
6. short legs
7. flabby tummy
8. saddlebags
9. short neck
10. thick ankles & calves
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thanks
"Any woman who has stood tortured before a department-store mirror will be grateful."—Time
"No-nonsense advice...the duo spares no one—not even themselves."—Chicago Sun-Times
"A staple...they reduce body types to a handful of basic problems, for which they offer clear solutions."—Vogue
"The book takes care of most of the major figure problems women complain about...cheeky and clever...the text doesn’t just dictate, it explains."—The San Francisco Chronicle
"[Trinny and Susannah] bravely use themselves as models in hundreds of color photographs—many of them unflattering—to demonstrate the power of the right and wrong clothes for different body types."—The Sunday Oregonian
"As fun and informative as the fun and informative series from which it sprang...What Trinny and Susannah want is for women to understand what styles suit them, so that shopping for clothes will become as straightforward as shopping for groceries. Just put 'flared three-quarter-length coat to hide the saddlebags' on the list, rather than green beans."—Detroit Free Press
"It's because they are so open and honest about their own looks that women trust them."—Associated Press
"Turn the frumpy into the fabulous."—People Magazine
"What Not to Wear is just what to buy...[It] works because it is not about fashion...They aren’t interested in short-term fashion fixes; they promote long-term stylish dressing. If it doesn’t flatter you, they want nothing to do with it."—The Guardian (UK)
"The pair say what's made their show successful is an approach to style that doesn't depend on expensive labels or cosmetic surgery or even crash diets. Instead, the message to women is that before they even think about fashion, they've got to understand physique.
"'So we're like a couple of clothing doctors and it's like, OK, your ailment is a big pair of breasts, a very large bum, and short legs. And this is how we're going to make it better,' says Constantine."—CBS Sunday Morning
"The 'life coaches' telling you to love your body? Forget 'em. Most women have spent years analyzing their flabby bellies, so unconditional self-love is unlikely. Enter Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine, two tough-loving Brits claiming it's not what you've got, it's how you hide it. Their TV show, What Not to Wear, is cruel (fashion victims are stalked for months on hidden video), but the duo’s harsh 'tips' are always spot on."—Newsweek
"Infuriatingly, the diabolical duo is usually right and an astonishing number of ugly ducklings are duly transformed into swans. One of this season's essential purchases."—Amazon.com.uk
