Are you confident your clothes suit you and reflect who you really are? Drawing on early twentieth century purchasing patterns and advice, through two World Wars and the Great Depression, Alexandria Blaelock describes a four-step system for developing your wardrobe plan. You’ll learn what you need to know, to have the courage to make a plan and stick with it. • Your budget • What’s appropriate • Your style • What you need And the background knowledge that will make your wardrobe plan last; how to: • create wardrobe capsules • perform wardrobe reviews • prepare to shop • identify good fit and quality • care for your clothing • maintain your body shape All so you can confidently build your signature wardrobe.
Quirky Australian author Alexandria Blaelock brings her characteristic laconic wit and hard lane experience to her fiction and non-fiction alike. Her stories have appeared in Stringybark’s Crowd Surfing Anthology, Pulphouse Fiction Magazine and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. She’s also written five self-help books applying business techniques to personal matters like getting dressed, tidying up, and feeding you friends.
She loves cockatoos, lives on Wurundjeri country, and likes cooking. Sometimes walking, but in the forest, not on roads. When not telecommuting to parallel universes from her Melbourne based imagination, she’s watching K-dramas, talking to animals, and sipping Campari.
I wrote this book because I couldn't find what I wanted to know about how to build (or plan) a wardrobe to last more than a single fashion cycle. I wanted practical guidance about how much to spend, and what to buy to get the best value for what I could afford to spend. Along the way I discovered how women during Two World Wars and the Great Depression managed, and now I am sharing it with you.