https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:27:08 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in/page/2#post-1358349 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 18:01:29 +0000 Gracie 1358349@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I received the book just yesterday – will look for the discussion thread on Oct. 1. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in/page/2#post-1357168 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 02:46:37 +0000 viva 1357168@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Okay, cool, changing the title of this thread so everyone knows the plan! Or, I will when I reach my hotel .. Guess I can't do that from my phone in the cab. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in/page/2#post-1356916 Tue, 16 Sep 2014 21:48:13 +0000 Angie_T 1356916@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm downloading now.&nbsp; Late to the party but would love to join in. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in/page/2#post-1356902 Tue, 16 Sep 2014 21:40:22 +0000 Staysfit 1356902@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>So sorry for the spoilers for those who haven't read yet. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in/page/2#post-1356812 Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:37:09 +0000 thimblelina 1356812@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>No problem! I missed that. We'll hold off to Oct 1 when Alana or Viva starts a new thread. Got it!! xo </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in/page/2#post-1356797 Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:19:06 +0000 Anonymous 1356797@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Agree - that's what I was trying to say in my usual stumbling way. I meant i would not even start the BOOK until Sept 30 - and I wasn't kidding! &nbsp;I have way too much to read in the interim. &nbsp;And - has anyone ever moderated a book discussion on-line before? How is it done so it doesn't spiral out of control ?&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in/page/2#post-1356762 Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:52:14 +0000 viva 1356762@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Aren't we starting to discuss pages 1-103 on October 1? Oh, I hate to be such a schoolmarm on this .... but I haven't even begun reading yet. Whining, I know, but I was planning to read two other books in the meantime. (Traveling for the next week and don't even have that book with me.)</p> <p>In any event, I think Alana is right -- let's definitely have a new thread for the book convo. </p> <p>If you all decide to start talking now, that's fine. (I will probably bow out, just because I am sticking with the original timing out of necessity.) Otherwise, we can wait to October 1 and do it as we had originally planned. It really doesn't matter either way to me, but if we can just start a new thread for discussion it might make it easier for everyone to tell at a glance what we are doing.</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in/page/2#post-1356739 Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:29:30 +0000 Anonymous 1356739@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I haven't started yet either - and would like to wait for our October 1 "deadline" to begin so. Or - I can't read this thread anymore &nbsp;Good idea Alana to start a new thread which will contain discussion only for the actual book. With the amount i need to read professional and personally on a daily basis, I'll be reading this on the 30th :)</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in/page/2#post-1356710 Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:05:03 +0000 Suz 1356710@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I still haven't started reading! Yikes! I need to catch up.&nbsp;</p> <p>And, everything LisaP said about Amazon.&nbsp;</p> <p>Evil empire.&nbsp;</p> <p>Having said that, I have to confess that I sometimes order from them. Participating in my own destruction....</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in/page/2#post-1356707 Tue, 16 Sep 2014 17:58:19 +0000 thimblelina 1356707@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sounds great Alana! If you can start it, do... I'm in a class today but will chime in tonight. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in/page/2#post-1356363 Tue, 16 Sep 2014 11:33:15 +0000 Alana in Canada 1356363@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>May I make a request that when it comes time to actually talk about the book we can do so in a separate thread? This thread will get very difficult for some of us with slower connections to load. </p> <p>Maybe start it with the title: Women in Clothes &nbsp;p. 1-103, Discuss! Then copy and paste the above post into it?&nbsp;</p> <p>What do you think, Thimblelina? I want to respond but one thread is going to get too unwieldly.</p> <p>Can anyone start new posts? I'll be happy too. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in/page/2#post-1356302 Tue, 16 Sep 2014 05:09:09 +0000 thimblelina 1356302@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Bumping this to see who's ready to talk about the first installment in our reading. Favorite sections? Quotes? Like I said before, I loved the section about the respondents' mothers. I'm kind of mother obsessed. My mother died at a relatively young age over a decade ago &amp; there's so much I would like to ask &amp; know about her now. I also loved the part where one of the women was talking about wanting a garden, and then realizing she knows nothing about them. She recognizes she's spent all her time looking at women &amp; clothes instead. As a gardener &amp; someone who designed gardens professionally I guess that's my excuse about my sometimes lame fashion choices: I've been looking at gardens, when I should have been looking at women! LOL Not so nice: I hated their clothing exchange transcript. It felt like a rambling &amp; smug humble brag about their fabulous wardrobes &amp; lifestyles. Just kind of... yuck, in a RHONY kind of way. Vapid. Staysfit &amp; I touched on the sweatshop chapter &amp; the transgender chapter. Very gritty and poignant.<br /> So what did you like or dislike? Do tell! xo </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in/page/2#post-1354657 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 19:27:20 +0000 Staysfit 1354657@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I agree Thimblelina, that was very moving. &nbsp;I periodically work with transgender teenagers in the school system.&nbsp; I am often fascinated by how readily&nbsp;their peers accept them, but how the adults in their lives struggle.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in/page/2#post-1354553 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 17:01:53 +0000 Anonymous 1354553@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Got mine yesterday too - will be diving in soon! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in/page/2#post-1353759 Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:14:56 +0000 jackiec 1353759@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Picked it up yesterday at Chapters (25% off coupon storewide &amp; online- excludes online books so you have to get it in person).</p> <p>Started it last night - so far so good!!! :)</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in/page/2#post-1353666 Fri, 12 Sep 2014 12:55:35 +0000 thimblelina 1353666@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes staysfit! The collections started out so promising with the vintage dresses &amp; the fedoras and then devolved to lipstick blots and used false eyelashes, lol. I guess if I forget to take out my bathroom trash this week, ta duh, I'm a collector! Heh...<br /> I found that sweatshop chapter really vivid, really poignant. I was also really moved by the conversation between the two transgender people, and how it's not the surgeries that really marked their change but the earlier act of changing one's name. I had never really thought of a name as the first thing we 'wear.' </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in/page/2#post-1353613 Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:04:12 +0000 Staysfit 1353613@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm there too! Oh my, I want to know what everyone thinks of the collection of lipstick blots! Made me laugh. Lots of food for thought so far. I'm also curious about the home sweatshop episode. I won't say more so I don't ruin it for others. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in/page/2#post-1353522 Fri, 12 Sep 2014 04:22:30 +0000 thimblelina 1353522@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Good work Alana! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in/page/2#post-1353495 Fri, 12 Sep 2014 03:17:38 +0000 Alana in Canada 1353495@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thimblelina--what? Oh my goodness, I would <b>totally</b> be you. It's too bad we couldn't show up at the same book club--then we could just take our wine over to the side and chat about the book!</p> <p>I picked mine up at Chapters this evening. I looked and looked and finally had to ask for help. They were in the back--they'd only come in today.</p> <p>I'm in. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in/page/2#post-1353257 Thu, 11 Sep 2014 22:02:59 +0000 thimblelina 1353257@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>hahaha... Thanks Lisa!</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in/page/2#post-1353240 Thu, 11 Sep 2014 21:49:24 +0000 Anonymous 1353240@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>oh don't worry - I will read it, definitely! &nbsp;just haven't had a chance to pick it up yet:) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in/page/2#post-1353118 Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:50:36 +0000 thimblelina 1353118@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Okay, I got there. Page 103, right? Please lord don't let me be the only one who reads the book. I've actually been 'that' girl in a book club where I didn't know the other women very well and they all found it hilariously quaint that I came ready to talk about the book. I found it really embarrassing. I had no idea! I mean, yeah there's wine and it's a night out and it's fun to catch up and relax but surely they could spend a little time on the book too? So please let me know if you've done any reading. xo </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in/page/2#post-1353027 Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:09:39 +0000 jackiec 1353027@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm in - as soon as I can pick up the book Sounds great! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in/page/2#post-1352491 Thu, 11 Sep 2014 00:21:02 +0000 Karie 1352491@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for responding, Lisap! I look forward to your PM. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in#post-1351662 Wed, 10 Sep 2014 00:46:34 +0000 Anonymous 1351662@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><b>Karie -&nbsp;</b>this isn't the place for me to launch into my discussion on amazon so I'll private message you. I work in publishing (in Canada) and the long and short of it is amazon's business model is atrocious on so many levels (employee's wages , manipulation of the market, and the death to independent booksellers are just a few of the issues&nbsp;) &nbsp;By all means - use your LIBRARY! &nbsp;they rock! &nbsp;and buy locally and independently if you can! More to come:) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in#post-1351617 Wed, 10 Sep 2014 00:09:26 +0000 Staysfit 1351617@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I will give this a try. &nbsp;It's a busy time of year, but the reading is going quickly. &nbsp;I'm using my iPad instead of my Kindle. &nbsp;It's working out well. &nbsp;Like the color version instead of black and white. &nbsp;I was also thinking it would be fun to hear everyone's answers to the questions. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in#post-1351535 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 22:54:51 +0000 Karie 1351535@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm in, Kindle edition. Lisap, why no love for amazon? Is Amazon contributing to&nbsp;something I'm not aware of?&nbsp;I do agree we should support our local bookstores, and since we pay for our libraries with our tax dollars, we need to utilize their services. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in#post-1351513 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 22:30:16 +0000 thimblelina 1351513@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I started my reading. It's fine in kindle. I can open up the photos to ogle them. I really like being able to highlight &amp; annotate electronically. The section with the pictures of the respondents mums is just KILLING me. So. Lovely. We have to post our young mums' pictures here. And I want us to answer ALL the questions. But not all at once. Maybe 3 or 4 questions at a time. Was feeling sad about not having my own collection until I got to the photos of used shopping totes. Well hells yes I do have a collection it seems, jumbled in the back of my CRV. Hahaha. (And did anyone else give a big headscratch WTF at that wraparound skirt collection?) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in#post-1351420 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 20:25:56 +0000 Inge 1351420@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Denise: Not for the time being, but never say never. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/women-in-fashion-book-group-anyone-in#post-1351126 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 14:37:25 +0000 Alana in Canada 1351126@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks JAileen!&nbsp; </p>