(Part 2) Top products from r/fashion

I'd like to start by saying you don't have to be aware of all the technical aspects of fashion design to show her you're supportive and interested in what she's going to do with her life. Listening to her when she tells you about a project, commenting insightfully on her work when she shares it with you, and being there for her when the work load is particularly overwhelming (because, trust me, it will be at some point or another) are the most important things you could ever do to show you care.

As for technical terms, pick up a beginner's sewing book, like Singer's The New Sewing Essentials. Since fashion design has been getting more attention as a glamorous career, there are a wealth of small "crash course" type books that can teach you the basics about textiles, fashion history, marketing, creative direction, etc.

Making Faces is a pretty fantastic book about all the makeup basics! Best of luck, of course.

http://www.zappos.com/product/7860157/color/3 <--- have one sour review, but eh, Zappos has a great return policy if you have poor luck, too

http://www.zappos.com/frye-veronica-lace-tall-black-pebbled-full-grain-suede <--- whoah, expensive, but have some shoe porn anywho

Zappos has a pretty good search filter if you wanna play with 'em a little. I just plugged in black knee high boots with a lowish heel.

http://www.amazon.com/Volatile-Womens-Boot-Combat-Black/dp/B000FS3KFY/ref=sr_1_2?s=shoes&ie=UTF8&qid=1331094798&sr=1-2 <---- dunno if you're into the combat boot style

For some of the origins of the infantilism of Japanese culture, I'd recommend you read Dogs and Demons: The Dark Side of Japan. It's not just in fashion and body image that infantilism rules in Japanese culture - a very large chunk of their popular culture and cultural exports are infantalized (e.g. hello kitty, pokemon, and so forth). The author, Kerr, asserts that the Japanese are obsessed with pre-K and Kindergarten because the discipline and pressures that are relentlessly brought against Japanese make them look back at this time of life as the only time they were happy. Of course, US culture similarly tends to glorify High-School level adolescence, perhaps for some of the same reasons.

That's interesting, thanks for sharing! I was just quoting what I read in one of my textbooks [The Business of Fashion] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Business-Fashion-Designing-Manufacturing/dp/1609011104/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1367974205&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Business+of+Fashion)

Have you tried using Milbon Straight Liscio crystal Hair Treatment?
I know this product from a hair stylist. You can find it on Amazon.
It's used right after washing your hair while the hair is still wet. I find it making my hair more smooth afterwards.
I also always blow dry my hair usually at medium heat so the heat doesnt damage too much but still drives most of the moisture out.

I hope this helps.

This one:
http://www.amazon.com/Milbon-Straight-Lisciocrystal-Treatment-4-1oz/dp/B000SE7VSW/ref=sr_1_1?s=beauty&ie=UTF8&qid=1320607860&sr=1-1

Here are some books I'd highly recommend. I'm a "style conscious" 23 year old who happens to work in a public library. And while I'm a lit snob and a nerd for politics these are the books I take a gander at when I need to take a break. If you were to purchase two I would recommend the Trinny and Susannah one along with the Bobbi Brown one. They're wonderful and address different shapes.

http://www.amazon.com/One-Hundred-Guide-Pieces-Stylish/dp/0061664634/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1302754075&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Nina-Garcias-Look-Book-Occasion/dp/1401341470/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1302754075&sr=8-3

http://www.amazon.com/Little-Black-Book-Style/dp/0061237213/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1302754075&sr=8-4

http://www.amazon.com/Style-Strategy-Less---More-Approach/dp/0061834033/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1302754075&sr=8-5

http://www.amazon.com/What-Wear-Change-Your-Life/dp/B000F5FR3A/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1302754154&sr=1-3-spell

http://www.amazon.com/Bobbi-Brown-Makeup-Manual-Everyone/dp/0446581348/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1302754180&sr=1-1

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Preston Blair
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I'm a fan of frye boots…particularly this one. they have a lot of different styles that all seem to be around your price range.

Don't forget the father of it all, Leigh Bowery.

We sell this book at my work; it has a ton of pictures of Lady Gaga in it.

I don't mind them on some girls, but this is fucking gross:http://www.amazon.com/UGG-Australia-Classic-Short-Chestnut/dp/B000IN2UHA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323620921&sr=8-1

link to the book is here https://www.amazon.com/How-Achieve-Timeless-Elegance-Practical-ebook/dp/B074QWR6N2/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1503454845&sr=1-1&keywords=timeless+elegance

They are Red Wing I'm pretty sure, but I think they are these not the ones you suggested. I could be wrong though. http://www.amazon.com/Red-Wing-Shoes-Classic-Lifestyle/dp/B0018DW7QS

> models who smoke won't be allowed to work since it's an unhealthy habit.

Are you seriously comparing smoking to an eating disorder? There is no denying that the fashion world is at fault for pushing this twisted view of how a body should look like. Most fashion labels absolutely view skinny as the ideal. And specifically want their models to be skinny. I'll give you some examples.


Teenage girls who are patients at Sweden's larget eating disorder clinic are being scouted by model agencies. Some have BMI as low as 14, one was so sick she was wheelchair bound.


Hungry: A Young Model's Story page 95. Coco Rocha being told at 15, "You need to lose more weight. The look this year is anorexia. We don't want you to be anorexic, but that's what we want you to look like."


Ralph Lauren photostopping a model's waist in an advertisement. Her head was bigger than her waist.

Karl Lagerfeld of Chanel saying that people prefer skinny models and opposers are "‘These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps"

Even Andreas Lebert, editor-in-chief of Germany's most popular women's magazine admitted that ""The whole model industry is anorexic." and "For years we've had to use Photoshop to fatten the girls up".

Louisa von Minckwitz, owner of Louisa Models said she understood the rage about underweight models but doubted that readers really wanted to buy a magazine to look at ordinary women.

Here are some female models who have died from anorexia nervosa.

Hila Elmalich. Elmalich died weighing 22 kilograms/49lbs, age 34. Her eating disorder had started around the time that she started her career at 13 years old.

Ana Carolina Reston At the time of her death, age 34, she weighed just 40 kg/88 lbs/ at a height 1.73 m/5 ft 8 in.

Sisters Luisel and Eliana Ramos Luisel died at age 22, weighing 44kg/96.8lbs Had a diet of lettuce and Diet Coke for the three months before she died.

Isabelle Caro Perhaps the most seen anorexic model in the "No Anorexia" campaigns. At her worst, she weighed 25kg/55lb and slipped into a coma.

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