The Body Shape Bible

While so many find Trinny and Susannah brutally honest, i find them fun and informative. The Body Shape Bible which I purchased from Amazom.com, allows one to take an honest look at oneself and one's friends and see that looking good has more to do with self awareness than being born perfect. I love that they use normal looking people for their how to photos and then use famous people when they've dressed to accentuate their shape and when they looked far less than great. They also have a good laugh at themselves. I am a classic hourglass, and finding clothes has always been difficult. I have often tried to camouflage my curves with oversized flowing clothes that only added twenty pounds or more to my appearance. I recently bought a va va voom red dress with flutter sleeves, form fitting a la Marilyn Monroe and Christina Hendricks, and I received so many compliments. I'm sixty five and haven't had so much attention since I was twenty. Buy this book for you and your friends. It helps you love yourself as you are, laugh at what's not so great, and see the potential in those around you.

This book helped me realize what clothes look best on me. It made me realize that I have a stupidly impossible body type, but at least it gave me some direction for which cuts will usually fit better than others. Also helps with jewelry recommendations.

Trinny and Susannah have done it again. Great information about how to dress to look your best, no matter how you look in the mirror in just your undies. Very helpful and with great illustrations.

This book arrived in perfect shape, on the earliest of several possible dates. I haven't even opened it yet, but intend to spend plenty of time with 'my nose in this book.' Thank you.

As a fan of Trinny and Susannah, I have always appreciated their guidance on how to dress for your specific body type. I found this book to be covering the same information, except not as well presented as in previous books. Once you discover your body type, you can really only use 15 or so pages out of entire 288 page book. You are offered only 3 looks as ideal for your shape, Casual, Smart, and Party. I would have appreciated more, especially considering some of the outfits were not seasonally appropriate. And as I flipped through the information on other body types, it was noticable that things such as swimsuits and accessories where discussed with some body types and not others. This should have been addressed with every body type. Also, because this book is shipped from the UK, the shopping section becomes useless since they recommend shops within the United Kingdom only, unless you anticipate traveling overseas soon. The shopping guide in "T & S The Survival Guide" is far superior. Perhaps an updated US version will be offered later. Wait and buy it then.

This was ordered on Dec 22 2010 and arrived on February 18th 2011 (from the UK to New York)Shipping was cheap- and it came in perfect condition.This is a fun book, but still I cannot identify myself with any of the shapes here- I wanted some tips because I recently had two babies and I am definitely not the same shape as pre-pregnancy. I may use some of the ideas from maybe three different body types that apply to me in part.

This review applies to all of Trinny & Susannah's books:The books are great largely because they are great. Before they appeared on American TV there was nothing like them.To my knowledge,they are not on US TV now,but should be.

Out of the 4 books I bought by these women, THIS WAS THE BOOK THAT HAD THE INFO I NEEDED (but didn't know it until I read it!) One may not fit perfectly into the described body shapes, but after coming up with the closest match, there's so much info with great examples, a person is bound to learn a good bit! At least know I did!

According to my wife: Love this book. I owned it once before, but had to pass it on due to moving overseas. I am happy to have it once again as I found it a very useful book and with honest and detailed reasoning of why to and why not to wear certain garments and accessorys for various body shapes. I love the visual details that portray what they say really well. Trinny and Susannah really know their stuff... they really help get ones wardrobe in order!

Good book to start with.....the T&S series...and i loved it !!An eye opener...

Ich schätze diesen Style Ratgeber wirklich sehr. Trinny und Susannah haben wirklich einen witzigen und frechen Schreibstil, was das Lesen dieses Buches sehr unterhaltsam macht. So ist dieses Buch kein steifer und blutleerer Ratgeber. Viel mehr ist es eine amüsante Lektüre, die den Leser dazu anregt, das gelernte sofort in die Tat umzusetzen. Die beiden Style-Gurus schreiben sehr empathisch und der Grundton des Buches lautet: Jede Frau ist richtig, so wie sie ist und jede Frau ist schön! Applaus dafür. Beschrieben werden in dem Buch viele verschiedene Körperformen, die von normalen Frauen präsentiert werden. Jedoch ist es nicht immer ganz leicht, den eigenen Körpertyp zu erkennen. Hierbei wäre es nützlich, ein objektives Auge als Unterstützung dabei zu haben. Wenn Frau dann herausgefunden hat, ob sie nun beispielsweise ein Cello, eine Vase, eine Birne oder doch ein Apfeltyp ist, werden verschiedene Kleidungsstile vorgestellt, die dem jeweiligen Typ besonders gut stehen. Dabei wird dann unterteilt in passende Styles für die Freizeit, die Arbeit und den Abend/Party. Mit Grundkenntnissen der englischen Sprache, kommt man gut durch die Body Shape Bibel.

This book is an essential guide to body shape descriptions and related outfits. The book was almost new, in very good conditions.Sometimes a little bit old-style in outfits.

I truly take my hat off to Trinny and Susannah! Their practical no nonsense approach to how we see ourselves and how to make the best for and of ourselves really works, if you have even just a little bit of courage to try their advice. I've seen it work on me and on others to whom I've shown their "bible". It's true!! Of course, there's also the whole matter of our different body shapes - thank God someone finally found more than just the traditional "apple and pear" shapes. Thank you, girls!