Style Notes - Maggie Alderson New softcover book 2011

STYLE NOTES

From Australia's favourite fashion columnist

by MAGGIE ALDERSON

New softcover book, published 2011, 252 pages with internal illustrations by the author. Measures 13 x 20cm.

Maggie Alderson , novelist, philosopher of fashion and arbiter of style, brings us a new collection of her much-loved Style Notes column.

Find out why men hate shopping and why women love wearing clothes men hate.  Share the frustration of the search for the perfect Walkable Heeled Shoe and consider whether a size 'large' item of clothing is acceptable as a gift.

Learn why it's good if your child is too embarrassed to be seen with you, and how to harness your life force through the power of yoga - and liberally applied make-up.

Discover some key terms for the fashion addicted - Show Crow, Bag Hag and Fleabag - and work out where you fit on the spectrum.

Contents include:

• Parents on Parade
• Fantasy Food
• Mortifying Mummy
• The Best Part of Making Up
• The Hair and Now
• Hobbledy Hoity Toity
• Anna in Oxford
• Shoe Sure
• Shopping Black Belt
• In Memorium Mr McQueen
• and heaps more gems

Warm, witty and wise, Style Notes is the ultimate insider's guide - a knowledgeable but not-too-serious take on the wonders and weirdness of the world of fashion, style and life beyond.

About the author

Maggie Alderson was born in London, brought up in Staffordshire and educated at the University of St Andrews. She has worked on nine magazines - editing four of them, including British ELLE - and two newspapers. For many years she covered the international fashion shows.

She has published six bestselling novels: Pants on Fire, Mad About the Boy, Handbags and Gladrags, Cents and Sensibility, How to Break Your Own Heart and Shall We Dance? She has also published three previous collections of non-fiction: Shoe Money, Handbag Heaven and Gravity Sucks. She co-edited several Girls' Night In books of short stories in aid of the charity War Child and also, In Bed With, a collection of erotic short stories by well-known women writers.

She is married, has one daughter and twelve pairs of Prada shoes.

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Style Notes by Maggie Alderson