Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me: A Guide to Living with Impeccable Grace and Style Review

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(More customer reviews)Things I wish her mother had told Lucia: A graceful woman does not use vulgar language, flaunt her cash, hoard money and possessions, wear red high heels, or offend others.
It is not elegant to describe other people's physical shortcomings as jokes, tell everyone how much you spend on items and services, or buy bargin basement ski-wear for your helicopter mountain hopping outings.
Worst of all, the main mantra "never take offense, only little people take offense" seems not to apply the other way around. It seems perfectly elegant, stylish, graceful to constantly offend others. In the British version, at least (I don't know whether they cancelled these passages for the American version of the book), Ms Van der Post jabs and ridicules American women every time she can. They only good thing she has to say is that Americans found a way to make sturdy swimsuits for obese ladies. But we would be oh so little to take offense at that, wouldn't we?
As an American living abroad, I have seen more truly elegant and - particulary graceful - American women than Ms Van der Post seems to have noticed. They are not sassy, cute, fizzly, etc., they have manners, are considerate, and do not talk about money. Zero stars is what this book deserves, but the software demands at least one.

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Lucia van der Post has dispensed advice on living stylishly for more than three decades, and her common sense, confidence, and wit have garnered her legions of fans worldwide. A bestseller in the United Kingdom, Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me offers-in van der Post's distinctively warm, aphoristic style-everything a woman needs to know about living well, with elegance and glamour. Leaving no aspect of a woman's life unconsidered, sections include How to Work and Have a Life; Cheap Chic; Ten Easy Main Courses; How to Wear Black; and Love, Marriage, and Happiness.

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