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    Find Your Style: Boost Your Body Image through Fashion Confidence
    Find Your Style: Boost Your Body Image through Fashion Confidence
    Find Your Style: Boost Your Body Image through Fashion Confidence
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    Find Your Style: Boost Your Body Image through Fashion Confidence

    By Sally McGraw

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    Style can be a flag we wave, a declaration of who we are. Discover awesome tips about understanding your body type so you can build flattering outfits, using colors, shapes, patterns, and accessories to your advantage. Learn how to build self-esteem by busting media myths about beauty standards and create your own fashion rules that make you feel confident. Meet girls and young women who are redefining what it means to be stylish, fashionable, and confident—in their own unique ways. When you look and feel great, you are telling the world that you are an amazing individual!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLerner Publishing
    Release dateJan 1, 2017
    ISBN9781512439113
    Find Your Style: Boost Your Body Image through Fashion Confidence
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    Sally McGraw

    Sally McGraw is a Minneapolis-based freelance writer, editor, and blogger. She is the creator the popular daily blog Already Pretty, a columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, a Huffington Post contributor, and the author of several books about style and body image. Sally is also a ghostwriter and editor who specializes in non-fiction books and book proposals. Her favorite word is "crepuscular."

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      Find Your Style - Sally McGraw

      This book is dedicated to Ellie, Addie, Olivia, Amelia, Ruby, Tillie, Evie, Astrid, Gloria, Juniper, and all of the daughters of all of my dear friends who will someday be teenagers. May you learn to love your bodies every day of your precious lives.

      And to the smart, outspoken, marvelous young women who contributed their voices to this book. You are all superstars. Thank you.

      Copyright © 2017 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.

      All rights reserved. International copyright secured. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the prior written permission of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc., except for the inclusion of brief quotations in an acknowledged review.

      Twenty-First Century Books

      A division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.

      241 First Avenue North

      Minneapolis, MN 55401 USA

      For reading levels and more information, look up this title at www.lernerbooks.com.

      Main body text set in Bodoni Std Book 12/16.

      Typeface provided by Adobe Systems.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: McGraw, Sally, author.

      Title: Find your style : boost your body image through fashion confidence / by Sally McGraw.

      Description: Minneapolis, MN : Twenty-First Century Books, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc., [2017] | Audience: Age 13–18. | Audience: Grade 9 to 12. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016009115 (print) | LCCN 2016014306 (ebook) | ISBN 9781467785693 (lb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781512411416 (eb pdf)

      Subjects: LCSH: Teenagers—Clothing. | Fashion. | Body image in adolescence.

      Classification: LCC TX340 .M35 2017 (print) | LCC TX340 (ebook) | DDC 646/.3083—dc23

      LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016009115

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      1-37921-19276-4/20/2016

      9781512439113 ePub

      9781512439120 ePub

      9781512439137 mobi

      Contents

      Introduction

      Clothes Are Tools

      Chapter 1

      Media Messages

      Chapter 2

      Style and Body Image in Real Life

      Chapter 3

      Figuring Out Your Figure

      Chapter 4

      Outfit Assembly

      Chapter 5

      Shifting Style on a Budget

      Chapter 6

      Why Style Matters

      Source Notes

      Selected Bibliography

      Further Information

      Index

      Introduction

      Clothes Are Tools

      I used to wish I could be a brain in a jar. That’s how much I hated my body.

      I remember walking down the busy hallways of my high school, shuffling my beat-up Converse on the linoleum, wondering if there was a way to make my physical self disappear. I had so much going for me in the nonbody department: I got straight As, was cast in every play I auditioned for, sang in three choirs, and had a busy social life. And I was proud of my accomplishments and happy with my friendships. My insides were awesome.

      But my outsides? Different story. Even though no one had ever said anything negative to me about my body, I still heard all sorts of negative things about it: TV commercials for weight-loss shakes; magazine ads for workout videos; and movies that showed only slim, toned female bodies. All of these things whispered to me of my inadequacies. The girls that everyone agreed were pretty, hot, or beautiful looked nothing like me. They were all tall and skinny, had flat stomachs and noticeable breasts, toned arms, and perfect skin. When I peered into the mirror, I saw a stubbornly jiggly stomach and tiny breasts, flabby arms, and gobs of acne. I looked at those beautiful girls and saw nothing of myself reflected back. I looked at them and decided that my body must be wrong. And that I should fix it.

      So I dieted. For AGES. And while I was dieting, I wore nothing but loose, formless clothes that hid everything about my body. My jeans were baggy, and my shirts were stolen from the closet of my burly, 6-foot-tall (1.8-meter) dad. I picked dull colors, clunky shoes, and thick fabrics that hid my non-flat stomach and non-slender legs. I wanted to make my outside as uninteresting as possible and force people to focus on my inside. I figured hiding my body was the best way to do that.

      A few years later, my girlfriend Liz mentioned that she had started wearing longer skirts to downplay her hips and something clicked inside my brain: Clothes could do something besides hide my body from view. Clothes could be tools! They could change how my body looked, even though my body was still the same inside them. As a kid, I’d worn the same things as my friends, never asking myself if I actually liked the clothes or felt good in them. As a teen, I’d dressed for invisibility, never trying anything that fit to my curves or drew attention. But then I saw a new, better option, and I jumped on it. It took a lot of experimenting to figure out which styles and shapes worked best for me, but eventually I found them. I started wearing flared skirts that floated over my hips, fitted tops that showed off my waist, and slim pants that balanced my proportions. My body came out of hiding.

      And you know what? I felt better. I hadn’t lost a pound, and I actually felt better about my body. In fact, finding clothes that worked with my body instead of against it helped me feel more connected to my physical self. My brain-in-a-jar fantasies finally vanished, and I began to see that there had never been anything wrong with my body in the first place.

      Once I figured out that dressing my body well helped me feel better, I wanted to share my discovery with other women. Almost all the girls and women in my life struggled with body image, and almost all of them believed that weight change was the only way to stop that struggle. But I had found another way. It wasn’t the perfect way and it certainly wasn’t the only way, but it was another way besides diet shakes and weight-loss surgery. I

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