Download or read book What s Your MIIEN written by Mikara Reid and published by MIIEN Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If your personal appearance were a business card, would your clothes project who you are? Are you showing up in the world the way you want to be perceived? Wardrobe style may be a common talking point, but how many of you can say your image was a stepping stone for your success and not just a trendy moment? What most people don’t know is that the secret to authentic personal style is to stay in tune with a high level of self-awareness to reach their full fashion potential. The book, What’s Your MIIEN! ? goes beyond telling you what to wear, how to wear it, where to shop, etc. It dives into the journey of who you are and reinforces that with appropriate wear to make you stand out in your industry intentionally—decluttering and managing your wardrobe. Mikara Reid’s proprietary system for fashion identity will lead you on a 180 degree path of fashion transformation through personal style consulting. When we look good, we feel good, and we perform even better. This take-action program Mikara lays out is straightforward yet not easy because your strongest possession, which is self-awareness, sits next to personal development and reflection that exude outward. Learn to align your wardrobe style with your personal and professional brand with this book! Check out www.whatsyourmiien.com and www.miien.co

Download or read book Book 17 Hourglass Body Shape with Balanced Waist written by Melody Edmondson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you feel lucky when you shop, feeling like women's clothes are manufactured with your Balanced Waistplacement in mind? Do you realize that you have the coveted Body Shape as it is considered "The Ideal" Body Shape". And then think... if I an a world favorite Body Shape, then why do I often feel as if I look fat? Why you look heavy if you layer clothing? Do you know you look best when you wear a pantsuit or skirtsuit all in one color? Do you know why you look shapely or leaner in knits or fitted clothing? Do you know like your curves but wonder how to feature then without looking like you are trying to receive attention? With this guide for Hourglass B, Balanced in THE SPACE OF THE WAIST(r), learn how to celebrate your Assets, maximize your style, dress with confidence, and love the body you have!

Download or read book Book 19 Hourglass Body Shape with a Long Waistplacement written by Melody Edmondson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you you look Divine in a shirtwaist or a fitted and flared dress but you struggle to find them to fit your Natural-Waistplacement? Why is it that you can never find these Silhouettes in tops, gowns, jackets or coats? When you're in the fitting room, do you find Silhouettes fit far above your Natural-Waistline? Have you wondered why even the slightest embellishments on fabrics or Silhouettes make you appear thicker? Would you like to know the best way to wear a skirt or which trouser Silhouettes are the best for your Body Shapes and Long-Waistplacement? Have you realized you look beast when jackets have defined shoulders and waists or that big patch pockets will make you appear wider in the hips? It is not a Weight Issue -- IT IS a Waistplacement Issue. It is not a Body Shape Issue -- IT IS a Long-Waisted Issue. You have more lenght in THE SPACE OF THE WAIST(r) than any other Hourglass Body Shape. With this guide for Hourglass S, Short in THE SPACE OF THE WAIST(r), learn how to celebrate your Assets, maximize your style, dress with confidence, and love the body you have!

Download or read book Book 18 Hourglass Body Shape with a Short Waistplacement written by Melody Edmondson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you have curves but a shorter waist? Do you wonder how you can value your curves and feature them without looking fat? Do you wonder why you look heavier with layered clothing? Why waists of jackets hit you at your hips? Why dresses with waistlines hit you far below you Natural-Waistline? Why is is so difficult to find clothes, jackets, dresses, gowns, or tops that fit? What are your most flattering trouser and skirts? What Silhouettes are the best for you in coats, gowns, jackets, sweaters, and tops? Where are straightlined jackets without nipped in waists? Do you ever finish shopping, wondering why are there no clothes for Short-waisted women? Or feel you look horrific in Classic Clothing that you truly love? With this guide for Hourglass S, Short in THE SPACE OF THE WAIST(r), learn how to celebrate your Assets, maximize your style, dress with confidence, and love the body you have!

Download or read book Book 11 Triangle Body Shape with a Balanced Waistplacement written by Melody Edmondson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you almost an Hourglass Body shpae except your shoulders, are not as wide as your hips? Do you appear like an Hourglass when you add shoulder pads? Do you walk through stores knowing you are lucky because there are tons of options? This is because the patterns used for manufacturing women's clothing are made for Balanced-Waistplacement like you. Do you want to know what the best Silhouettes, shoulders, and lengths are to wear in jackets? In dresses? In gowns? And in tops? Would you like to know your best LBD? Do you know easy to use color and color contrasting methods for the Triangle Body Shape with a Balanced-Waistplacement? Would you like to show off your smaller top half of the body without calling attention to your larger bottom half? With this guide for Triangle B, Balanced in THE SPACE OF THE WAIST(r), learn how to celebrate your Asstes, maximize your style, dress with confidence, and love the body you have!

Download or read book Book 7 Square Body Shape with a Long Waistplacement written by Melody Edmondson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever noticed your legs are short, but your shoulder, waist, and hips are about the same width? Do you ever feel fairly stocky before you dress? Do you approach shopping carefully because selections sometimes make you look wider and shorter than you truly are? Have you wondered how you can select styles to appear narrower and taller? Would you like to be able to layer two, three, or four layers in order to improve you bodyline? Have you wondered what Silhouettes will add curves without making you appear wider? Have you ever wondered what your best choice would be in a LDB? In this guide for Square L, Long in THE SPACE OF THE WAIST(r), you will learn how to select flattering Silhouettes and looks to flatter your Body Shape and Waistplacement. You will understand your challenges are NOT about Weight Issues but are about your Waistplacement, and loving the gorgeous body you have!

Download or read book Fashion Writing written by Josephine Collins and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion writing now enjoys its highest-ever profile as the digital world has multiplied the number of platforms on which it is available. No longer confined to restrictive print schedules or occasional broadcast slots, fashion is now an ever-present content driver. With retailers, brands and designers all in on the act, plus the emergence of citizen fashion coverage from the social media community, the volume of fashion journalism has risen beyond any predictions. While bloggers monetise their musings - indeed, create successful and influential fashion media and fashion product businesses - traditional magazines and newspapers have expanded their multi-channel fashion content in order to secure more touch points with consumers and drive revenue from fashion advertising. Aimed at students on specialist fashion journalism courses or general/lifestyle journalism degrees, this guide will also appeal to untrained writers, including content creators, who want to add a professional approach to their fashion writing.

Download or read book The Complete Photo Guide to Perfect Fitting written by Sarah Veblen and published by Creative Publishing international. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Photo Guide to Perfect Fitting is the ultimate reference for fitting test garments and transferring accurate adjustments to patterns. No matter what size or shape you are, wearing garments that fit perfectly makes you look and feel better. Rather than making commonly accepted changes to a commercial pattern, the method presented in this guide focuses on the way a test garment fits the body. The fabric is manipulated to improve the fit, and then those specific changes are made to the pattern. The result: patterns that fit perfectly! With The Complete Photo Guide to Perfect Fitting, you'll learn: The importance of a fitting axis and how to use it during a fitting How to recognize fitting issues, such as drag lines and folds How to manipulate fabric to solve common and unusual fitting problems How to transfer the fitting changes to your pattern easily Basic pattern-making skills to ensure accurate alterations See the fitting process from start to finish on basic garments, fitted on real people. Then follow fitting solutions on different body types. Hundreds of large color photos illustrate the techniques and concepts in simple step-by-step instructions. With these lessons, you will get the perfect fit for any body.

Download or read book The Science of Sexy written by Bradley Bayou and published by Gotham. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A top LA celebrity fashion designer gives every woman the red-carpet treatment in this fool-proof guide to choosing clothes that make them look fabulous - with tailor-made tips for 48 body types. Bayou helps readers identify their silhouette shape (triangle, inverted triangle, rectangle or hourglass) and combines that information with a height/weight chart to determine which of the 48 |fitting rooms| to go to in the book. |A helpful new book...a formula any woman can follow. It's almost as good as having your own personal Bradley.| - InStyle Magazine

Download or read book Trinny Susannah written by Trinny Woodall and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trinny & Susannah make over 12 women, representing the 12 classic body shapes, analysing in detail how to dress well and look fabulous all the time.They describe the most common dressing mistakes made by women of each shape and show their three best looks. They select the 10 key garments for each shape to make up a capsule wardrobe, and show how these basics can be built upon to vary the look.Whether you are an Apple, a Pear, a Cello or a Lollipop, Trinny & Susannah will tell you everything you need to know about your body shape.For the first time they cover age: things to think about when you are over 50, and for each shape they show celebrities (Women who inspire us) who dress well for their shape and age.And they show how to make the most of what you already have: what you can do with an ill-fitting or expensive mistake to bring it back to life.Trinny & Susannah have advised thousands of women on their TV shows and in newspaper columns. But they have made their share of sartorial blunders. They share some of those moments and show how they have learned.

Download or read book The Professor Is In written by Karen Kelsky and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration. Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success. They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph.D. toward other, non-academic options. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D.’s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including: -When, where, and what to publish -Writing a foolproof grant application -Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV -Acing the job talk and campus interview -Avoiding the adjunct trap -Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more.

Download or read book Strong Curves written by Bret Contreras and published by Victory Belt Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not your run-of-the-mill fitness book. Developed by world-renowned gluteal expert Bret Contreras, Strong Curves offers an extensive fitness and nutrition guide for women seeking to improve their physique, function, strength, and mobility. Contreras spent the last eighteen years researching and field-testing the best methods for building better butts and shapelier bodies. In Strong Curves, he offers the programs that have proven effective time and time again with his clients, allowing you to develop lean muscle, rounded glutes, and greater confidence. Each page is packed with information decoding the female anatomy, providing a better understanding as to why most fitness programs fail to help women reach their goals. With a comprehensive nutritional guide and over 200 strength exercises, this book gets women off the treadmill and furnishes their drive to achieve strength, power, and sexy curves from head to toe. Although the glutes are the largest and most powerful muscle group in the human body, they often go dormant due to lifestyle choices, leading to a flat, saggy bum. Strong Curves is the cure.

Download or read book The Women s Health Big Book of 15 Minute Workouts written by Selene Yeager and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an assortment of short exercise routines which take only fifteen minutes per day and includes workouts for different fitness levels, with some moves targeting specific body parts.

Download or read book Form Fit Fashion written by Jay Calderin and published by Rockport Publishers. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable primer for students and first-stop reference for professionals, Form, Fit, and Fashion guides the fashion designer through the entire design process, from conceiving a garment to marketing it. This handbook collects the information and ideas essential to planning and executing fashion projects of every scale and distills them in an easy-to-use format that is compact enough to slip into a tote. Linking six central phases in the cycle of fashion—research, editing, design, construction, connection, and evolution—Form, Fit, and Fashion will help designers to develop effective strategies for building a cohesive collection and communicating their vision.

Download or read book Arthrogryposis written by Lynn T. Staheli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-28 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term arthrogryposis describes a range of congenital contractures that lead to childhood deformities. It encompasses a number of syndromes and sporadic deformities that are rare individually but collectively are not uncommon. Yet, the existing medical literature on arthrogryposis is sparse and often confusing. The aim of this book is to provide individuals affected with arthrogryposis, their families, and health care professionals with a helpful guide to better understand the condition and its therapy. With this goal in mind, the editors have taken great care to ensure that the presentation of complex clinical information is at once scientifically accurate, patient oriented, and accessible to readers without a medical background. The book is authored primarily by members of the medical staff of the Arthrogryposis Clinic at Children's Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, one of the leading teams in the management of the condition, and will be an invaluable resource for both health care professionals and families of affected individuals.

Download or read book The American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Dressmaking written by Lauren Stowell and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This comprehensive guide will walk you through how to make and wear your 18th century dream gown. [The authors] have endeavored to ... [bring] historically accurate dressmaking techniques into your sewing room. Learn how to make four of the most iconic 18th century silhouettes--the English Gown, Sacque Gown, Italian Gown and Round Gown--using the same hand sewing techniques done by historic dressmakers. From large hoops to full bums, wool petticoats to grand silk gowns, ruffled aprons to big feathered hats, this manual has project patterns and instructions for every level of 18th century sewing enthusiast"--Amazon.com.

Download or read book The 12 Minute Athlete written by Krista Stryker and published by Tiller Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock your athletic potential and get into the best shape of your life with Krista Stryker’s HIIT and bodyweight workouts—all of which can be done in just minutes a day! If you’ve ever thought you couldn’t get results without spending hours in the gym, that you’d never be able to do a pull-up, or that it’s too late to get in your best shape ever, The 12-Minute Athlete will change your mind, your body, and your life. Get serious results with high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts that can be done in just minutes a day. Give up the excuses and learn to use your own bodyweight and a few basic pieces of portable equipment for short, incredibly effective workouts. Reset your mindset, bust through mental blocks, and set meaningful goals you’ll actually accomplish. You can finally ditch the dieting and enjoy food as fuel with simple eating guidelines to the 80/20 rule. In The 12-Minute Athlete you’ll also find: –A guide to basic calisthenics and bodyweight exercises for any fitness level –Progressive exercises to achieve seemingly “impossible” feats like pistol squats, one-arm push-ups, pull-ups, and handstands –More than a dozen simple and healthy recipes that will fuel your workouts –Two 8-week workout plans for getting fitter, faster, and stronger –Bonus Tabata workouts –And so much more! The 12-Minute Athlete is for men and women, ex-athletes and new athletes, experienced athletes and “non-athletes”—for anyone who has a body and wants to get stronger and start living their healthiest life.