How to Walk in High Heels: The Girl's Guide to Everything

This is a hoot, even for the non-fashionista. Answers questions you never knew you had. Give it to your teen daughter (with a strong disclaimer that this is a pick-and-choose-the-advice-you-want-to-bother-with manual), but read it for yourself first, and don't let your Inner Feminist get too bent out of shape. If nothing else, this will let you in on some of the work it takes to be one of "those" people!
ETA This book is also almost 10 years old now (in 2014) so a lot of the name-dropping will be more than a bit dated, which actually adds a bit to its rather awful appeal. Like reading a modern Amy Vanderbilt, edited by Bridget Jones.

While superficial it's fun, though the entire chapter on Computers needs a serious grain of salt (psaw on no-one understanding documents if you don't use Microsoft Word) and she's not helping issues by declaring in the piece on "How to understand the world wide web" "not only did it slash encyclopaedia sales, and end the tyrannical reign of librarians...". She was probably asking the wrong questions.

The index is patently wrong too. Maybe she should have hired a trained professional, maybe even a librarian for that...

She does later suggest that you should use libraries to save money. Ah, us librarians have use after all.

It's for those in the world who are concerned about fashion and about always looking good. I.E. not me. While some of show more it is useful the constant name-dropping of brands is quite grating occasionally. show less

Fun, inspiring and elegant; a bit like Harper's Bazaar in self-help form. I can't say that I have actually referred to this in moments of crisis, but reading it helps to liberate my inner Manolo-wearing self who is clearly just waiting to struggle free...

Funny, helpful, tons of info.

Funny, helpful, tons of info.

Funny, helpful, tons of info.