By Chloe Quigley, Daniel Pollock, Kat Macloed

PDF eISBN: 9781452119069
Authored via: Chloe Quigley, Daniel Pollock (collectively created Michi Girl)
Illustrated by way of: Kat Macleod

Every fashionista worthy her Louboutins cares as a lot a few book's outfit as she does approximately its content material. This purse-sized encyclopedia dons a material conceal stamped with shimmering silver foil and a satin-ribbon web page marker. along brilliant illustrations, a crew of style forecasters defines greater than 285 phrases from acid wash to zebra ("fatigues are particularly simply exhausted clothes") and solutions sartorial quandaries ("What do I do whilst I've obtained a real 'Channel' purse in Hong Kong?"). both snarky and classy, this insider's consultant is bound to be on all of this season's best-dressed lists.

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Chloe Quigley and Daniel Pollock are the creators of favor forecaster Michi lady and are the authors of Like I supply a Frock. They either dwell in Australia.

Kat Macleod's illustrations and collages have seemed fashionable, Harper's Bazaar, and prefer I supply a Frock. She lives in Australia.

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Too many fundamentalists. For Christ’s sake, could one of you Armani Exchange– wearing, right-winged fascists please pass me the fucking salt? JACKET 1) A short, arse-revealing gown we pay for in the hospital. 2) An arse-revealing short man who pays for it anywhere. -60- JUMPER A knitted garment a mother makes for her daughter to wear to a birthday party that she was really looking forward to going to because it was at a roller-skating rink. When the daughter saw the jumper, it was a hideous poo-brown color and the wool JUMPER -62- was so itchy it made her eyes water and her neck come up in red welts.

EGYPTIAN COTTON Posh sheets stolen from hotels. ENVELOPE POCKET A pocket for envelopes. EMPIRE WAIST Insert Benny Hill theme song here. EYELET ELBOW PATCH Handy when your bladder’s bursting or you have just picked up Javier Bardem. EARMUFF An effective way to tell the staff from the students at posh universities. -34- F FATIGUES Really, really tired clothes that are so exhausted they can’t muster any pretty colors. -35- FATIGUES FAUX FUR It’s okay, until the faux becomes endangered. FANNY PACK A small pouch worn by people without any self-respect.

JET JET A really fast intense black plane. Dear Michi, Sorry to bother you again, but I still can’t find my keys. I seem to have so many things in my pockets I can never find anything. And now I can’t leave the house. Can you help me? Please.

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