[Review] How to Get Dressed: A Costume Designer's Secrets for Making Your Clothes Look, Fit, and Feel Amazing

How to Get Dressed

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. 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.

review

How to Get Dressed is a book that every woman should have on hand. With Pinterest and the Internet overall, it is so easy to find information that can help women how to look better as well as have tips on fashion overall. However, it's all on the Internet and when you need information on hand, we often get confused on what to wear and forget everything that we've read. This book is more of a guide for years to come and it definitely helped me to look at my wardrobe in the new light. 

What I appreciated the most is that it's not a book to sell you on any specific fashion or follow a current trend. It is a guide on how to use your personality and what you have available to make sure that you feel the best and not become stressed when you feel like you have nothing to wear. One of the tips that I am using now is "Hang it Up". The author shares her experience on the set and transfers it into daily lifestyle to say that if you hang up your clothes, jewelry, undergarments, you will actually wear them so they won't stay hidden. 

Overall, I am happy that I got a chance to review this book. It is going to be a staple in my home and I know that I will come back to reference it. On the back it has tips on different stains and the solutions to clear them which I haven't used but excited to try in the future.  

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