- Hardcover: 80 pages
- Publisher: Collins Design (Oct 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0061450650
- ISBN-13: 978-0061450655
- Product Dimensions: 20.9 x 16.2 x 1.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 435,160 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'In the 1950s, American women took more sartorial inspiration from film, and in 1959 Head published The Dress Doctor, her bestselling autobiography and style guide. The Dress Doctor: Prescriptions for Style from A to Z is an adaption of that book, presented as an illustrated paperback. Bill Donovan's illustrations give Head's epigrams vitality but is her advice still relevant half a century later?' --Financial Times Weekend, May 2011
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Before there was a throng of celebrity stylists permeating our culture, the legendary Edith Head was dressing Hollywood's most fashionable women and men on screen and off, and lending her sartorial wisdom to eager women across the country. With more than 80 chic, colourful, especially commissioned illustrations, this charming volume is brimming with a mix of informative and amusing fashion sound bites from a to z. Readers will relish Head's classic style tips, benefiting from her timeless expertise on developing a personal style, assessing one's figure and dressing to flatter it, building a wardrobe, and judging quality. They'll love her many entertaining inside stories on dressing Hollywood's leading men and women - Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich, and many more - and looking at Bil Donovan's gorgeous re-creations of Head's most famous costumes.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As a writer, essential research into your current subject maater is an important and inevitable part of the job - often, it is somewhat dull work, but this little gem of a book comes in at the opposite end of that particular scale. The diminuitive volume, rather like its author, is brilliantly honed, exactingly precise and unquestionably opinionated, so that you are drawn in to appreciate Edith Head as a real person, rather than just someone you're reading about. I absolutely adored reading it and the insight into *who* Edith was, is utterly invaluable to me in my latest project 'Sew Iconic'. I can highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to know more about why Edith Head was the most famous, fabulous and feared costume designer that Hollywood has ever produced.
Format:Paperback
Much much thinner than I expected. It is really is a sampler for something bigger. Nicely presented and its about Eith Head - the great Edith Head but I must go for the bigger books to satsify my thirst for this huge talent.
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
can you say "knock off"?
12 Oct 2008
Format:Hardcover
I bought this book thinking that it was a reprint of Edith Head's The Dress Doctor. Once I actually looked it I realized that this thing is just a colllection of excerpts from her book. I returned it and will search for a used copy of the real Dress Doctor book.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Can't beat this one for a peek into Hollywood in its heyday!
26 Oct 2002
Format:Hardcover
Sure, this book, written in 1959, is a bit dated - then again, would you really expect a book subtitled What to Wear for Every Occasion to stay in style for over 40 years? If Edith Head could see what people wear today, well...she'd surely be reeling in shock. Her advice, after all, comes from a different generation, a more formal era in fashion.
But fashion tips are really only a small part of the pleasures of this book. What makes it such fun to read is the inimitable style and personality of Edith Head, dressmaker to the stars. She was a true character and thank goodness she lets some of that eccentric genius shine in this book as she discusses her clients, such stars as: Dorothy Lamour...Madeleine Carroll...Mary Martin...Betty Hutton...Veronica Lake...Giner Rogers...Charles Laughton...and more.
The section entitled What to Wear on Every Occasion is both funny and enlightening to read as Edith Head had clear-cut opinions on the Dos and Don'ts of fashion, even advising women what to wear to such diverse events as Prize Fights, Dog Shows and Garden Parties. Don't pass up a chance to grab a copy of this one!
But fashion tips are really only a small part of the pleasures of this book. What makes it such fun to read is the inimitable style and personality of Edith Head, dressmaker to the stars. She was a true character and thank goodness she lets some of that eccentric genius shine in this book as she discusses her clients, such stars as: Dorothy Lamour...Madeleine Carroll...Mary Martin...Betty Hutton...Veronica Lake...Giner Rogers...Charles Laughton...and more.
The section entitled What to Wear on Every Occasion is both funny and enlightening to read as Edith Head had clear-cut opinions on the Dos and Don'ts of fashion, even advising women what to wear to such diverse events as Prize Fights, Dog Shows and Garden Parties. Don't pass up a chance to grab a copy of this one!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
I found this book interesting and entertaining.Easy reading.
3 Nov 1998
Format:Hardcover
The story of Edith Head, Hollywood's first major fashion designer for Paramount Studios, is both informative and entertaining. The role she played in shaping not only Hollywood's elite, but everyday women, in modern day apparel as well as individual attitude still applies 50 years later. I highly recommend this book to all who enjoy reading of someone who became someone she never intended to be, and yet enjoy and convey enthusiasm throughout her career to all she encountered.
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