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The meaning of sunglasses: and a guide to almost all things fashionable
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Viking
Publication Date
2008
Language
English
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Accessories: going to hell in a handbag
Advertising: how it spins the fashion axis
Animal print: when women roar
Ankle boots: so wrong and yet, and yet
Antiaging
Bags: a word or ten thereon
Ballet pumps: twee versus comfort
Bathing suits, and how so little can reveal so much
Beauty treatments, and the etiquette thereof
Best-dressed lists: the myths and the madness
Black: the new and the old
Blahnik, Manolo
Blouses: not so librarian now, are they?
Boots: the normal kind with a couple of variations
Cardigans: a trend in action
Celebrities, and when bad ones happen to good fashion
Classics with a twist
Cleavage, and the plumbing depths
Clutch "bag"
Coats stuck at the nexus between dull and stressful
Dates, and why they are the one event where you really don't need to worry about what you wear
Decade rehashing, and why designers live in the past
Dresses: God's gift to women
Drugs, the role thereof
Ethnic clothes
Exercise clothes: the new couture
Fashion shows: Darwin in motion
Fashionspeak
Festivals, and why they're a bit like being pregnant
Films about fashion, and why they are all (mainly) rubbish
Flat boots
Fur: bad
G-strings, and the female lie
Get: fashion that girls do and boys don't
Glasses, and why men will still make passes
Hair accessories: gimmicks for reluctant adults
Haircuts: the meaning beneath the layers
Hair extensions, and when you realize you no longer understand the young
Haute couture: taking self-indulgence to a whole new level
Heels: the highs, the lows, and when fat is better than thin
Hems: the highs and lows (part 2)
Jacobs, Marc: genius or what?
Jeans: not as bulletproof as they tell you
Jewelry, and when fashion just gets obnoxious
Lagerfeld, Karl, and why he's so brilliant
Late, fashionably, and just rude
Layering, the whats and hows of
Leather jackets, and the delusion of the middle-aged man
Limits, age, and what's (allegedly) acceptable when
Lingerie, and the importance or otherwise of an audience
Logos: the bleating of the insecure
Low-slung belts, and the point thereof
Magazines, fashion, and women's masochistic love thereof
Make-up: the tears of a clown
Manicures, pedicures, and the ever-rising bar of personal upkeep
Masculinity, and the clothes that challenge it
Mass market fashion, and the changing face thereof
Mittens, and the enduring appeal of pedophile-friendly chic
Models
Money, and when to spend it
Moss, Kate, and how she ruined your wardrobe
Pantyhose, stockings, and the pleasures of a chastity belt
Party dresses, and what yours say about you
Party shirts: the fun-lovin' guy's staple
Patterns - or test patterns?
Pink
Plastic surgery, and how all those 1950s B movies weren't so far off the mark
Prada: the frumpy but fashionable
Red carpet, and what we can learn from it
Ruffles: from French ingénue to Bozo the Clown
Sex and the city: what it gave us and what it didn't
Shorts, and why they're so great
Signature style
Sizing: the nonexistent myth
Sunglasses, the meaning of
Thin knits
Toes, and what the shape says about you
Trench coats
Vanity, and the joys thereof
Velvet, and why it should be banned
Vintage
Volume, and the ironic cruelty of the oversized cut
Yoga, detoxes, and other euphemisms for exercise and diets.
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