Books like Stoosh style secrets by Patrice Dacosta

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

An insightful guide to how clothing choices shape personal expression and confidence, exploring the psychology of fashion, seasonal wardrobe planning, and the intimate connection between style and self‑esteem.

For over two centuries, in the North as well as the South, both within their own community and in the public arena, African Americans have presented their bodies in culturally distinctive ways. Shane White and Graham White consider the deeper significance of the ways in which African Americans have dressed, walked, danced, arranged their hair, and communicated in silent gestures. They ask what elaborate hair styles, bright colors, bandanas, long watch chains, and zoot suits, for example, have really meant, and discuss style itself as an expression of deep-seated cultural imperatives. Their wide-ranging exploration of black style from its African origins to the 1940s reveals a culture that differed from that of the dominant racial group in ways that were often subtle and elusive. A wealth of black-and-white illustrations show the range of African American experience in America, emanating from all parts of the country, from cities and farms, from slave plantations, and Chicago beauty contests. White and White argue that the politics of black style is, in fact, the politics of metaphor, always ambiguous because it is always indirect. To tease out these ambiguities, they examine extensive sources, including advertisements for runaway slaves, interviews recorded with surviving ex-slaves in the 1930s, autobiographies, travelers' accounts, photographs, paintings, prints, newspapers, and images drawn from popular culture, such as the stereotypes of Jim Crow and Zip Coon.

Emily Cho’s guide offers practical tips for dressing and beautifying yourself at work and home, helping you look and feel terrific every hour of the day.

A practical self‑help guide that helps women of all sizes find flattering clothing by addressing fit issues, accentuating strengths, and camouflaging concern areas to look and feel their best.

A guide that blends practical advice on clothing and dress with personal beauty routines, fitness tips, and fashion insights to help readers look their best.

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--