Always in Style with Color Me Beautiful: Your Shape, Your Style!

by Doris Pooser

Provides guidance on how to choose clothing styles and colors to complement an individual's personality and body shape

198 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1985

Reviews

[Danahamm2 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not my favorite of the color me beautiful books. It’s okay but nowhere near as good as Nancy Nix Rice when it comes to style. However it is still a great retro addition to my color me beautiful book collection:)

[Shelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent book that i used to check out from the library all the time. This follows the basic carole jackson 4 season premises but, then adds seasonal leans. It is explained very well in this book and still includes all the main colors of a person's season unlike the newer color me beautiful book that claims to do it (i have that one too-the colored pencil swatches one). It also, has nice stuff on body shape and all that that "color" books don't always have. This book still implies you can be a straight up season but, the new books imply one can't just be a spring anymore, they have to be a spring/autumn. I totally disagree. What they address with the leans is sort of the intensity of your coloring. for example i am a spring with a winter lean. people don't know i'm a spring because of my dark hair. This one recognizes the spring part as your base colors and adds on some winter steal-able colors. the newer CMB and european CMB and the latest american CMB (not carole jackson) don't recognize spring as your base colors. they pluck colors from both seasons and make up a new base from that. In that style i am a clear spring. i think all of any springs base colors should be navy, white and black. anyhoo. i love this book because it is a pioneer in the seasonal lean stuff and the swatches are very good. (paper swatch representation is very important, i mean you are trying to see subtlties of color and all)

[Elizabeth · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is sort of a sequel to Carole Jackson's Color Me Beautiful, and its strong point is Pooser's expanded color ranges for each season. Unfortunately, her discussion of body types is a little confusing: even though she states that body line has nothing to do with weight, it seems from her illustrations that people with a sharp line are thinner than people with a curved line.

[Alison · Rating 3 out of 5]

The sections on colour are really useful and stand the test of time.
But the rest is quite dated now. It's still worth a read, though I would ignore the body shape advice.