Books like So pretty/very rotten by Jane Mai

Nancy Nix‑Rice guides readers through practical wardrobe choices, color coordination, and style tricks to enhance body image and boost confidence.

I read this book back in the 80's and really enjoyed it. It is basically a style identification system based on the four personality types first mentioned by Hippocrates, renamed with more modern names like "Wonderland," "Camelot," "Atlantis," and "Olympus." It has color plates that you can use to clip out your own skin, lip, eye and hair colors: they can be used both to help determine one's best color palette with the book itself (there are plates for each type's color palette) and as a shopping tool for easily determining whether or not a garment is likely to be in a becoming color or not. Each type is also given a detailed list of styles that are likely to be becoming, types of fabric, accessories, hair color/style advice, advice on cosmetic colors and more. She includes advice on wardrobe building, advice on appearing on television, advice on limelight colors to wear, non-limelight colors to wear, colors that make you more approachable, and her plastic surgery story. She suggests the use of a paper doll (made from a photo of oneself) to help determine what shapes of clothing work with one's body type, and has a photo showing how she uses this tool. The color plates of skin, hair, eyes, lips makes this book unique among all the other style books I have ever encountered. Similar materials with interesting twists include David Kibbe's "Metamorphosis" - another dated book, with a different names for the different types/variations - and the more current work of Carol Tuttle, who wrote "It's Just My Nature" and "Dressing Your Truth" (she also uses different terminology for the 4 types, and reserves her clothing/makeup/hair/accessory advice for her online dvd courses).

A guide for teens and pre-teens on personalizing their style and self-expression through clothing and dressing up.

Showcasing Japan's astonishingly varied culture of cute, this volume takes the reader on a dazzling and adorable visual journey through all things kawaii. Although some trace the phenomenon of kawaii as far back as Japan's Taisho era, it emerged most visibly in the 1970s when schoolgirls began writing in big, bubbly letters complete with tiny hearts and stars. From cute handwriting came manga, Hello Kitty, and Harajuku, and the kawaii aesthetic now affects every aspect of Japanese life. As colorful as its subject matter, this book contains numerous interviews with illustrators, artists, fashion designers, and scholars. It traces the roots of the movement from sociological and anthropological perspectives and looks at kawaii's darker side as it morphs into gothic and gloomy iterations. Best of all, it includes hundreds of colorful photographs that capture kawaii's ubiquity: on the streets and inside homes, on lunchboxes and airplanes, in haute couture and street fashion, in café́s, museums, and hotels.

Discover how to look slim and fabulous with the right clothes.

Advanced Style is Ari Seth Cohen's blog-based ode to the confidence, beauty, and fashion that can only be achieved through the experience of a life lived glamorously. It is a collection of street fashion unlike any seen before - focused on the over-60 set in the world's most stylish locales. The (mostly) ladies of Advanced Style are enjoying their later years with grace and panache, marching to the beat of their own drummer. These timeless images and words of wisdom provide fashion inspiration for all ages and prove that age is nothing but a state of mind--

“In this book, readers learn about sourcing eco-friendly clothes, and how they can apply a range of “R”s, such as recycling, reusing, and reducing consumption, to an imaginative range of fashion projects. The book also looks at ways to clean and dry clothes with least impact on the environment.” –Back cover.