How to Walk in High Heels: The Girl's Guide to Everything | 
 enlarge | Author: Camilla Morton
Publisher: Hyperion
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 22403
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 448
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 6 x 1.4
ISBN: 1401302750
Dewey Decimal Number: 646.7008422
EAN: 9781401302757
ASIN: 1401302750
Publication Date: September 5, 2006
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Product Description
The bestselling U.K. sensation, hailed as "the most fabulous instruction manual the world has ever seen" by Vogue.com Can you make yourself up in five minutes flat? Make the first move without breaking a sweat? Hang a picture without becoming unhinged? Get out of a car -- or an unpleasant situation -- gracefully in a short skirt? Load an iPod as effortlessly as a dishwasher? If not, international style and fashion journalist Camilla Morton can help you navigate these and more than two hundred other hazards of modern living with grace and aplomb. Much more than just a style manual or crash course in social skills, How to Walk in High Heels also illuminates the finer points of achieving better homes and gardens, tackling technophobia, climbing the career ladder, and joining the jet set. From the practical, such as what to do when a heel breaks and how to catch a mouse, to the imaginative, such as how to enjoy karaoke and swim in sunglasses, How to Walk in High Heels overflows with useful nuggets of advice delivered in the authors inimitable witty style, accompanied by a foreword from Diors John Galliano and a Louis Vuitton trunkful of insight from experts including: -Manolo Blahnik on How to Pick a Shoe -Dolce & Gabbana on How to Get Ready in Five Minutes -Gisele Bundchen on How to Look Good in a Photo -Jade Jagger on How to Compile Your Own Soundtrack This comprehensive do-everything-better bible takes the guesswork out of flaunting your fabulousness so that you can stop teetering and start striding confidently through the obstacle course of life.
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 Needs work. September 2, 2008
This, like The Little Black Book Of Style, really only has advice that applies to skinny girls. Not fat ones like myself. Yet, it's easier to read and doesn't leave me wanting to burst into tears like LBBOS.
However, I disagree with 99% of what the author has to say. Now I'm glad she said that if you have a big belly and/or hips you should wear baggy tops. If only my fellow fatties would listen to her on this! (Please, the skin-tight clothes do NOT make you look thinner, it just makes people point at you and laugh.) And that she admitted no one looks good in horizontial stripes. Now if she'd just add "If you have fat, fleshy arms, you MUST wear REAL sleeves - and cap sleeves are NOT real sleeves."
Really though, the book is a waste of time and money. A lot of things she says are just stupid. You don't have to watch MTV and VH1 - good music ends in the 80s. Anything past that that isn't a Broadway musical isn't worth wasting your time on. Modern art isn't art. Her advice to be up on these things can just be thrown away. Why all the discussion on poker and horse betting? Why would a girl need to know this? Gambling is boring.
And of course her talk about how a woman should never wear a heel lower then 5 inches is just insane. There's no such thing as a comfortable high heel. And saying that lower heels are actually worse for your back then a 5 inch heel just defies medical and common sense. Finally, dumping a man just because he's shorter then you is pretty darn shallow and makes a woman look like someone no one wants to spend time with.
If anything, the only thing this book has done is further convinced me that I will never be able to walk in high heels and need to accept my place as "Failure As A Woman."
If you must read it, borrow from your local library and return on time so you don't waste money on it like I did.
HOW TO WALK IN HIGH HEELS: THE GIRL'S GUIDE TO EVERYTHING January 12, 2008
I bought this book as a present for one of me female friends and I only got a short read of it before I gave it to her but I really liked what I read. I think the book gives a great insight to how the womans mind really works and espiaclly loved the chapter on how to dress and what shoes to wear with what!! A really great, girlie fun book!!
 The Perfect Book for Fashionistas January 2, 2008
This book describes everything a girl ever needed to know, from how to swim in sunglasses to how to dine alone. It's hilarious and informative. There's an index in the back so you can choose which stories you want to read at which time, it doesn't need to be read from cover to cover. I love this book and would recommend it as a gift for anyone or for yourself!
you gotta buy this book, giiiiiirrrrrrrlllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! October 27, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
it's awesome!!! things that I knew already and some that I didn't really think of... written in really funny way. Great for ALL girls at all ages, I would recommend it for some guys, too... ;) GREAT BOOK!!! get it!
Save your money! September 7, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
You barely have to read a page or two into the excerpt here to see that you will not get the best advice here. What kind of advice does it give for emphasizing the waist? Low slung pants, cropped tops, and belly piercings. SERIOUSLY? That's about the worst fashion advice I've ever heard. Maybe that's ok for sassy little 15 year olds, but it is the farthest thing from classy, and not usually appropriate or flattering! Honestly, the advice in this book, save for a few words of wisdom from some bona fide experts, is at best fluff, and at worst just plain bad.
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