Reviews for Ready to Wear: An Expert's Guide to Choosing and Using Your Wardrobe

The average rating for Ready to Wear: An Expert's Guide to Choosing and Using Your Wardrobe based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-03-16 00:00:00 Dorothy Lewing Ready to Wear is one of the best books of its kind. I bought this book in 2005 when it was first published and have frequented Organization by Design's Web site at www.dressingwell.com over the years. As one of their virtual consulting clients, I've worked with one of their image consultants to figure out the best kinds of clothes to wear because I'm on the short end of petite: five feet tall. Not only do I recommend the book: I recommend the virtual consulting service where you are coached via phone and then sent via e-mail links to clothes you can buy on line. I bought a thin-stripe blue-and-white jacket that I still own. Alas, I had to donate the olive and white jeans I bought because I lost weight and couldn't fit into them anymore. This coming April I will work with the consultant again. A follow-up session costs only $75/per hour and this seems cheap considering the priceless advice you get. So buy the book and consider using the service. The consultants also work with men to spruce up their wardrobes.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-08-31 00:00:00 Pascal P-Gauthier Enjoyed this a great deal. I do agree with other comments that this is geared more toward the closer-to-40 crowd than twenty-somethings, but since I'm rapidly approaching the middle half of my thirties but still dress like I did when I was fifteen, I figure I could use some of the help. Of particular interest to someone like me, long obsessed with fashion and outfits and matching and shopping, was her take on how to coordinate down to the WEIGHT of the fabric or heaviness of the shoe; e.g. don't wear this type of shoe with linen, etc... Something I had not even ever really considered. She's pretty obsessed with black (well, who isn't?), red and camel (preppy/classic style in general), and a lot of her suggestions definitely lean toward the dowdy older woman (two-tone metal earrings in buttons the size of a quarter? Ack.) but overall this was beautifully illustrated, informative, fun to read, and added a few tricks to my fashion arsenal.