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Your Guide Lois Joy Johnson
robe, boost confidence, and feel great at any age. “My clients and friends say books and magazines focus too o to
much on younger women, celebs, and
the super-rich and there’s extreme Looking Fabulous We fell in love with fashion at first sight, but after
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pressure to diet, have surgery, and twenty, thirty, or forty years the romance fades.
Lois Joy Johnson
spend hours in the gym—all so they e Maybe the body you’ve dressed and shopped for has
Any Age
is a leading style and beauty at
can look better in clothes. It’s time evolved and your wardrobe just hasn’t gotten the
expert. She was one of the
for a new kind of fashion guide for W memo. We’ve all had that moment when clothes that
founding editors of MORE
made us feel sexier, more confident, and put together
women who aren’t 20 and size 0!”
magazine and its beauty
suddenly don’t anymore. Changes in lifestyle, body,
and fashion director for over a
work, finances, and attitude require updated fashion
a decade. In her role as a
strategies—a wardrobe wakeup call.
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beauty and fashion editor
As a top fashion and beauty editor, Lois Joy
for numerous publications
e Lois Joy Johnson has spent twenty-plus years working with
and websites, Lois hasbeen
models,celebrities, and everyday women to redefine
a force in redefining the way Johnson
u how women dress after forty. The Wardrobe Wakeup
women 40+ dress, shop, and think about clothes.
is a realistic, honest fashion guide that crunches Lois’
She has interviewed and photographed hundreds of p
vast experience and knowledge into practical lessons
everyday women, models, and celebrities who helped
and tips. Within these pages women will learn hundreds
change the landscape of fashion, among them Diane
of body-enhancing, style-boosting, closet-reviving,
Foreword by
Von Furstenberg, Lauren Hutton, Christie Brinkley, Cheryl
J money-saving tricks:
Susan Sarandon, and Diane Keaton. Lois is co-author o
h Tiegs (cid:129) Get more style and flattery from your same
of The Makeup Wakeup: Revitalizing Your Look at Any n
old clothes
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Age. She lives in New York City. o
(cid:129) Look contemporary but not silly, spend less
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Photography by but look better, and dress for comfort without
Michael
giving up on fashion
ISBN 978-0-7624-4584-4 Waring (cid:129) Find solutions to the fashion dilemmas spe-
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Lois Joy Johnson
Photography by
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Foreword by
Cheryl Tiegs
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To my BFFs, the girlfriends
who have always been there
for me 365 days a year, 24/7!
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Cheryl Tiegs
Foreword by
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The Wardrobe Wakeup
Introduction by Lois Joy Johnson
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CHAPTER ONE
Same Old Clothes,
10X More Style!
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CHAPTER TWO
Money Changes Everything
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CHAPTER THREE
I Wanna Be Me . . .
Stick With Your Own Look!
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CHAPTER FOUR
Ageless vs. Age-Appropriate
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CHAPTER FIVE
To Work or Not to Work . . .
162
CHAPTER SIX
So What Now?
196
CHAPTER SEVEN
Fashionably Furious
226
CHAPTER EIGHT
Cracking the Fashion Code. . .
Tales from the Rack Pack
252
Thank You!
XXOO from Lois
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