What Not to Wear: The Rules

by Trinny Woodall, Susannah Constantine

'Trinny and Susannah can be breathtakingly irritating but also happen to have extremely good taste.' ELIZABETH HURLEY 'I'd rather eat my own hair than shop with these two again.' JEREMY CLARKSON Susannah and Trinny's straight-talking fashion advice has made them Britain's best-known style duo. Now in their third BBC television series, they continue to make-over more unsuspecting style casualties. Offering advice on how to develop personal style, whilst making the most of your body shape, hiding your defects and flaunting those assets! Susannah and Trinny are not about fashion; they are about personal style - dressing for your body shape and personality - and this book shows you how.

Genres: Nonfiction, Fashion

Paperback

First published June 1, 2004

About the author

Fashion advisor and designer, television presenter and author.

Reviews

[Redfox5 · Rating 1 out of 5]

I won't claim to be a stylish or fashionable person, most of my style is basically pretty scruffy, leggings and jumpers. I just don't care much about clothes, and I hate spending money on them, I'd rather buy books!

Thought I'd give this a whirl anyways as it was my sisters and she does have a sense of style, thought maybe I could learn something.

Trouble is with books like this, is fashions change and it all looks incredibly dated, very nineties. I don't really like anything they are wearing.

Skimmed read this for the bits that would matter to me, but this is not my cup of tea.

[Hannah Polley · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is sexist, outdated and offensive to women. Full of cliches about how women should dress with no thought as to what actually makes them feel comfortable. I think there is a good reason why this show has not been on TV for a long time now.

The book has tips on where to buy places and a directory at the back. Obviously completely outdated as it has none of the modern brands. None of the advice is radical or ground breaking either. And it is repetitive. The first chapter is about what to wear if you have big boobs, followed by a chapter on what to wear if you have no boobs, which is just the reverse of the first chapter!

The copy of the book I have been given is a book crossing book so I will be putting it in a book exchange but I feel like I would be doing the world a favour by throwing it in the bin.

[Holly Parks · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was nasty. I hate the way they talked about women's bodies. Here are two quotes from the "big arms" section of the book.
"A fashion don't: Puff Sleeves. Why: elastic sleeves will create two very fat sausages, as opposed to one." or "A fashion do: Floating cuffs. Why: cuffs in a flimsy fabric add a certain delicacy to beefy arms while hiding the heftier truth." It just gets worse as you read on.

[Anja · Rating 4 out of 5]

Age-less styling tips for clothing that fits the own bodytype.

[Ana Cob]

The language is terrible and I doubt it would be published nowadays and rightly so. However there are some good tips here...

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This tiny (purse sized! Hello, shopping companion) book is a kind of directory of all the stuff (including many of the same photos) from other Trinny and Susannah books. I want to read more stuff by them, but since they haven't released anything new in a while, I have to settle for rereading all their classics.

[Annette · Rating 3 out of 5]

Has some good basic information. Helpful.