Three Black Skirts : All You Need To Survive
by Anna Johnson
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It's the real thing. It's about getting your life together. It's about looking damn fine. It's about man handling. It's about the casa question. About solitude. About stain removal. Whether you're a young woman just out of school and starting a career or a successful thirty-something, if you're still wasting time looking for stockings that match or struggling to keep on top of credit card bills, you need help. And not a glossy monthly's unattainable idea of help, but the stuff that show more works--the nuts and bolts. Anna Johnson's Three Black Skirts is the book that delivers. In a voice that's knowing, smart, hip and funny--and with the author's own retro illustrations to match--Ms. Johnson cuts right to the core of the chaos that passes for life today and shows how to find order, balance, fulfillment. She covers it all: health, dating, career moves, finances, entertaining, body image, sex, and, of course, the indispensability of owning three black skirts. She offers the twenty basics for money management, and three keys for shopaholics to gain control over their passion. A workshop to build better food habits. Ten ways to get to sleep. Dress codes to the major cities. A Schmoozer's Guide to Compliments. Principles of Modern Courtship. And everything in between, from an extensive stain removal chart to eleven ideas for reawakening your spiritual life. show lessTags
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A bit dated, but good information, nonetheless. Not as much information on fashion as I'd expected, but an encouraging lifestyle and goals guide for women at any point in adulthood.
While it's a few years old now, this book still has tonnes of great advice for a young lady. Anna Johnson has collected tonnes of tips, rules, guidelines, behaviours, etc. in one place that give relevant insight into how to struggle through day-to-day life. This was recommended to me by a friend years ago and I'm kicking myself that I didn't pick it up at the time. Great book!
Excellent guide to life.
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Anna Johnson has written for Elle, Vanity Fair, Vogue UK and Australia, Conde Nast Traveler, and Marie Claire Lifestyte, She's a correspondent for Foxtel's program By Design. Born in Australia, she currently divides her time between New York City and Sydney.
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- Original publication date
- 2001
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Art & Design
- DDC/MDS
- 646.70082 — Technology Home economics & family management Sewing, clothing, management of personal and family life Management of personal and family life Standard subdivisions
- LCC
- HQ1221 .J53 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
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- Languages
- 6 — Dutch, English, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
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- ISBNs
- 11
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- 2
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