Nancy Nix-Rice - Looking Good . . . Every Day: Style Solutions for Real Women

Nancy Nix-Rice guides us to look good through photos, illustrations, and great copy. Its almost as if shes standing next to us, saying, Try this! No matter your age, style, and pocketbook, youll find this your go-to fashion reference.

Nancy Zieman, Producer/Host of TVs Sewing With Nancy and founder of Nancys Notions

Looking GoodEvery Day takes Looking Good to another level. Nancy Nix-Rices new approach through points of connection is unique and easy to understand, and hundreds of photos provide proof that this approach works. Filled with timeless principles of color, line, design, and proportion, Looking GoodEvery Day helps women of all ages, shapes, and lifestyles make flattering choices while maximizing their wardrobe budget. This is a book every sewer and non-sewer alike should have!

Leslie Willmott Image & Wardrobe Consultant, Smart Women On The Go, former corporate sales executive, and co-author, Clothes Sense

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Style Solutions for Real Women

My usual reaction to a new style book is to sit on my hands. After reading Looking GoodEvery Day, I was ready to stand on a chair and yodel! Finally, a timeless reference book for women of all ages and sizes! This book, now, will be the text for my classes. Thank you, Nancy, for a job very well done.

Kathryn Brown CSI, Sewing Instructor and Style Lecturer

As a presentation skills trainer and coach, I work with women presenters to help them project confidence and credibility. Now I cant wait to recommend Looking GoodEvery Day to them. This is such a powerful resource: It helps a woman evaluate what showcases her unique attributes. When she dresses and accessorizes to accentuate her best self, shell discover that in the front of the room, the focus will be on her face and her communications, not on OMG, what is she wearing?! This book underscores that your presence is powerful when everything is connectedclothing, color, style, accessories. And I love how it shows you how to connect everything, step by colorfully illustrated step!

Barbara Busey, President, Presentation Dynamics

Looking GoodEvery Day is a marvelous book that includes every topic you need to know for how to look great. Each chapter is detailed but easy to understand because of the superb quality of writing. The chapter on color showcases the importance of wearing a flattering color. This is a current and thorough textbook that should be in every image consultants library.

Elaine Stoltz, AICI CIM

As an image consulting instructor who has used Nancys original Looking Good book since 2000, Im thrilled with this updated version. While reviewing the new copy, I got excitedthe color pages really make a difference! The book is loaded with new information and the pictures throughout the book reflect a diverse group of women. It is an easy and enjoyable book to read and the step-by-step guidelines with the body style will be an added bonus when I introduce students to body analysis. Im very pleased with the book and will look forward to when I can start using it for my image consulting class. The book is so comprehensive, I will continue to use it as an introduction to image consulting.

Kelly Armstrong, Image Consulting Instructor Fashion Department, City College of San Francisco

This is a comprehensive, step-by-step volume for any woman who wants to know how to look her best, every day. Nancy Nix-Rice leads readers through the fundamental and essential style principles, from discovery to application to wardrobe maintenance. Readers learn to identify their innate assets and how to accentuate them no matter their lifestyle and budget. By using basic and timeless design concepts, readers (and wardrobe consultants) can make better selections for themselves, use their ideal style connections to choose the best from whats in fashion at the time, and thereby always Look Good, Every Day!

Dominique Isbecque, AICI, CIP, Executive Director of Image Resource Center of NY LLC, co-founder, Association of Image Consultants International (AICI) Facilitator of the Certificate Program in Image Consulting at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology)

From the point of view of a fabric retailer, I found the sections relating to fabric choice, whether in ready-to-wear or custom sewing, filled with insightful and practical advice for consumers. Understanding fabrication, design and texture is essential to making good choices. In a world where we rely more and more on digital images to make our shopping selections, Nancys discussion of scale, texture and print provides an indispensable guide to add to our decision-making toolbox.

Barb Blom, Owner, Sawyer Brook Distinctive Fabrics

Giving the reader the tools she needs to objectively assess her unique physical characteristics, Looking GoodEvery Day offers every woman a step-by-step approach to discover her best colors, silhouettes and styles. Establishing points of connection further empowers her to draw conclusions based on the science of image rather than her own instinct, the makeover shows, or fashion magazines.

Carol Davidson, AICI CIP,

President & Chief Style Officer, StyleWorks of Union Square

A very useful and comprehensive guide for putting togetheror refiningevery aspect of your wardrobe from style to closets to shopping. Enough depth for the image geeks, but accessible to all. The Dos and Dontswith illustrationsare particularly helpful. Food for study as well as for thought! A definite keeper.

Beryl Wing, AICI CIP,

Owner and Chief Strategy officer, The Image Authority

This book is like an encyclopediain the very best sense. Its packed full of information from A to Z for anyone trying to simplify the act of getting dressed. Its a great resource for garment sewers, but you dont have to be a sewer to use this book.

I love the modern approach that presents you with helpful apps and ways to use technology, if you choose, to make the process easier. And Nancy provides little exercises so you can easily analyze yourself and make all the connections youll need to find those style solutions.

The illustrations and photos really make the book work because they so clearly show the points Nancy is makinglike the amazing thing that can happen when you reposition a belt, tuck in a shirt, or add a little shoulder pad. Its well organized, too, so whether you read it from start to finish (which I recommend because Nancy has a great sense of humor and youll enjoy the read) or just search out the sections on topics that trouble you the most, you can easily find what youre looking for.

If youve always wished for a friend to help you work through the process of learning to look the way you always knew you could, this book feels like that friend.

Mary Ray, Freelance Teacher, Writer, Designer Contributing Editor, Threads magazine Adjunct Instructor, Apparel Design & Merchandising, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC

This book would never exist without the collaboration of many talented individuals:

Leslie Wood Willmott and Barbara Weiland Talbert, whose original volume, Clothes Sense, inspired this book.

Publisher and book photographer, Pati Palmer, who artfully brought the piece together.

Designer Linda Wisner, who turned our words into exciting, easy-to-read pages.

Artists Kate Pryka and Taylor Jean Engel, who made many concepts vividly visual.

Image consultant Ethel Harms, who styled hair and makeup for our models.

Copyeditor Ann Price Gosch, who fine-tuned the grammar and construction.

McCall, Vogue, and Butterick pattern companies for sharing their beautiful fashion photography and fashion art to illustrate line, design, and color examples (for pattern information, see ).