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A short course in fashion, style and seeing clothes, in the words your You page uses. You read one chapter at a time, in order, and every chapter you finish stays open.
13 chapters, about three minutes a page. Begin with the first.
Chapter one · Reading now
Where clothes end and fashion begins: why it changes, who makes it, and the calendar it keeps.
Chapter two
How a person chooses from fashion and makes it their own, and how a style can be seen and described.
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Chapter three
Structure, volume and line: the first words for what your eye already notices.
Chapter four
Where the weight of an outfit sits, and why moving it changes the same two pieces completely.
Chapter five
How a piece should sit at the shoulder, the sleeve and the hem. It is about the garment, never the body.
Chapter six
Hue, lightness, saturation and temperature, and how one colour leads while another plays the accent.
Chapter seven
Weight, texture and shine, and what wool, linen and denim each do to a shape.
Chapter eight
The families prints come from, how scale changes them, and how to wear one.
Chapter nine
What happens after the clothes are chosen: a tuck, a roll, a belt, one ring or five.
Chapter ten
Dress codes, seasons, and why your summer self can be somebody else entirely.
Chapter eleven
The decades and designers your saves keep pointing back to, and why the names of trends age so fast.
Chapter twelve
How to tell what is yours from what is simply this season.
Chapter 13
Your own You page, read with everything you now know.