Dress Your Best: The Complete Guide to Finding the Style That's Right for Your Body

This book has great information for the everyday shopper. The pictures and explanations are wonderful. This helps making good clothing decisions easy.

I am a big fan's of Stacey and Clinton and their approach to fashion. This book is a good way to have their advice handy when shopping.

And better yet, there is a product directory. No matter what your size, you are sure to get some good pointers from this book

What a stupid book. The entire book is poorly laid out and the information given for each body type is vague at best. For example, I'm considered curvy, average height and the book tells me to wear "a straight dress for an hourglass shape to accentuate curves." How the hell does a STRAIGHT dress do that? It doesn't even get into skintone and color which is essential!

Stacy and Clinton have provided a useful guide to help both men and women max out their style quotients.

That being said, bear in mind that the authors wanted this book to be as helpful to as many people as possible. As a result: even though this book is over two hundred pages long, only a few pages (eight on average, my rough guess) could be devoted to any one unique physical type. So if you're slim and petite, eight pages of this book will be very useful to you. The rest won't. Tall and stocky? Again, eight pages of this book should be right down your alley, but that's all. Muscular and medium height? Eight pages, that's it. And so on...

Another quibble with this book is that it never really touches on the subject of matching the right color to your skin tone. We've all seen on the show where the authors will tell their makeover candidate, "Don't wear this color, it brings out the yellow in your skin more, it washes you out. THIS color, on the other hand, looks GREAT with your skin tone. Notice the difference, how it brings out the color in your cheeks and your eyes?"

You won't get that type of counseling here. So if you're wondering whether burgundy will go better with your complexion than red, or if shade X works better with your skin tone than shade Y, you're on your own. (Hopefully, future editions of this book will rectify this.)

Those criticisms aside, this book is an entertaining read and provides good, clear, easy-to-follow instructions on how to improve your wardrobe, regardless of what your body type is.

The book is fantastic. I sent it to five other people and they all liked it very much. Even my husband found useful information in the men's 'tall' section.
Grace Lundergan