InStyle: Instant Style: Your Season-by-Season Guide for Work and Weekend

by Kathleen Fifield, InStyle Magazine

A comprehensive guide to fashion for every season of the year outlines essential clothing items for winter, spring, summer, and fall and demonstrates how to complement them to accentuate one's personal style, including more than five hundred photographs, shopping calendars, and tips on editing one's wardrobe and organizing one's closet.

Genres: Fashion, Nonfiction, Reference, Own

208 pages, Flexibound

First published October 24, 2006

Reviews

[Shannon · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love this book almost as much as my fashion favorite, The Lucky Shopping Manual. Both have great pictures and practical advice, although this book is more on celebrity style made for the normal woman. A must have for the fashionista.

[Srilatha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved it!

The book gets straight to the point with clean pictures that depict what its trying to convey and less text.

This book will remain one of my favorites on this topic..

[Dawn · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great fashion book by one of my favorite magazines. Teaches you how to properly dress for your body shape, what to look for when shopping, and what to save on and what to splurge on.

[Nadine · Rating 2 out of 5]

Came for the travel packing section, flipped through the rest. Some advice and suggestions still work really well, others not so much (Hillary Swank in a twinset, yikes). Starts out nicely diverse, becomes quickly whitewashed. I did like the packing for travel chapter.

[Kimmi]

It's a great book. I did purchase the 2006 copyrighted edition. So the oriental cover has the following celebrities on it; Jennifer Aniston, Natalie Portman, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Rosario Dawson.

[Christina · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was REALLY useful for someone like me who struggles to find and execute a sense of personal style. It gives a good overview of some of the "basics" that should be in everyone's wardrobes, and explains things that may be second-nature to some people (e.g., how long slacks should be), but which were previously a hazy mystery to me. If you need a primer on fashion and style, or even just a kind of "check list" for what you should make sure to have in your closet, this is a good resource. Also, I found the descriptions of the various body types interesting and useful (now I understand why form-fitting crew neck shirts don't look good on me!).

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

Much like the magazine, the book puts together outfits for nearly every occasion imaginable. I wish I had a tenth of their skill in knowing what prints go together and I wish I had the time to actually shop for these things. I liked the section on one article of clothing done four ways--the practicality of using a single shirt for work, or on a weekend, or for a date was appealing. If you like the magazine, you'll like the book.

[Hoan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book for all of the images and interesting combos! I almost love my own closet now - cuz they were totally on target about essential pieces. So if you like clothes - this may not help. But if you need help shopping - this may be a good guidebook. Overall I would use this book for inspiration! I am planning on using it to sew my own cloths. Great picture book!

[Katie Tatton · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the "One shirt---Four Ways" pages. Mostly stuff I knew, but there were some lovely new ideas, you know, for when I have a thousand dollars to spend on "high quality, versatile basics" to build my wardrobe on.

[Clare · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just love the colour and texture combinations. It's the collage loving artist in me. Had some complaints from a school librarian though, a couple of pictures are a little indiscreet for young readers.

[Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Learned some good ideas from this book.

[MissJessie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice enough book with good photos but nothing really new or innovative.

If you've read the magazine, you've read the book.

Definitely for the younger, thinner crowd.

[Jane Dugger · Rating 4 out of 5]

Always helpful & great for ideas.

[Bita · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just like the magazine, lots of nice pictures, great ideas.
Lots of celebrity pictures. I like it, it also gives ideas on how to clear the closet and what to buy....
Nice,

[Eva · Rating 2 out of 5]

More of a "you need to buy this exact piece" book than anything else, and that's just not my style.

[Shelton TRL]

Best ideas on how to dress on certain occasions. And knowledge of how to whip up a great outfit

[Annette · Rating 3 out of 5]

some good tips in here