Sam Saboura’s Real Style: Style Secrets for Real Women with Real Bodies by Sam Saboura; illustrations by Bunky Hurter (2005)

Saboura is the guy from the old Extreme Makeover reality show, where they had plastic surgeons and cosmetic dentists and all these people make over so-called ‘ugly’ people. This book isn’t really about that; the focus here is really just on clothes and dressing to suit your body type. (I am a ‘half-pint’, apparently.)

It’s just funny — this book isn’t even quite a decade old, but some of the information is so out of date… No mention at all of skinny jeans! Nothing about Spanx. Patterned tights are super uncool. There’s a backlash against pashminas! Just get used to having to haul up your strapless dress and wiggle back into it… Strange.