I Whole Heartedly Recommend: What to Wear for the Rest of Your Life, Ageless Secrets of Style

Last week while riding the stair stepper at the gym and thumbing through the latest People Magazine (don’t tell anyone, it was the health club’s copy) I came upon a book review for a new book called What to Wear for the Rest of Your Life, Ageless Secrets of Style,  by Kim Johnson Gross.  Now, I am not one to read style books, largely because when you’ve read one, you’ve read ‘em all.  But something about the review intrigued me. 

 ”Our lives evolve and often our wardrobes do not…books like this help us relax and enjoy who we are, giving us permission to be stylish, feminine and sexy at any age.”   Sigrid Olsen, artist and Designer.

After I left the gym I went to my local bookstore and bought the book.  I just finished it…It was great!

The book is never bossy or pedantic like you might suspect a “style maven’s” book to be.  Instead Kim Johnson Gross is a friendly voice, one that is more apt to empathize than admonish (not like those Skinny Bitches).  As a vetran of the unforgiving fashion industry, Johnson Gross weaves her own tale of a mid-life bodychange that challenged not only her wardrobe but her sense of self.   She gives great advice to fellow aging fashionistas and offers up practical soloutions to “closet problems.”  Chapters include: Closet Betrayal, the Lying Mirror, Shop Smart for the Rest of your Life, How to Wear a Shirt When You No Longer Have a Waist and Other Closet Dramas. 

I was grateful that this book found me as I was sweating off the extra glass of wine from the night before and pouring over the news about Sandra Bullock’s new baby.  I can truly say that it was meant to be, particularly as I contemplate my new spending, apparel wearing, and shopping habits that are set to resume soon (121 days).  Hopefully the author’s advice, reflection, humor and stories will help to inform my new and improved ways. 

A solid thumbs up.  A keeper.  This is not your standard fashion advice book  I only wish I would have written it myself!