The Bottom Line
With essential info like how, where, and when to score the best deals, this book will become any frugal fashionista’s best shopping buddy.
Pros
- Includes many web addresses for all of the web-savvy budget fashionistas out there.
- Written like a one-on-one conversation with your ultra-stylish, ultra-thrifty best friend.
- Presents information in an easy-to-understand and enjoyable way.
Cons
- More entertaining than informative in some cases.
- Includes limited styles in the personal style quiz, which plays a rather large role in the book.
- Inconsistant. Since when is J. Crew expensive, but Ann Taylor budget-friendly?
Description
- This book breaks up how to be “fashionably frugal” in three simple steps.
- Written by Kathryn Finney, a fashion blogger, shopping expert, and personal stylist.
- Learn how to use insider tips (bargain for everything!) on an everyday basis.
Guide Review - How to Be a Budget Fashionista
Written like your favorite chick lit (that’s the fiction book genre, not the bubblegum), this guide is quick, witty, informative and most importantly, fun.
You will speed through this book at the same rate that you read Lauren Weisberger’s "The Devil Wears Prada," but with this handy handbook, you’ll gain knowledge to boot. You always knew Anna Wintour was a controlling diva, but did you know the equivalent of a women’s size 11/12 is a boys’ size 20? Didn’t think so.
Not only does "How to Be a Budget Fashionista" reveal tips and tricks for snagging high-end clothes on a low-end budget, but she also provides offbeat home-spa ideas in an entire chapter devoted to frugal beauty. Have you ever considered whisking up an egg and layering it on your face? Maybe not, but after this book you will. The egg, in addition to being delicious, is a great wrinkle reducer.
