A lipgloss-ary that has been missing from every woman’s life
Have you ever tried something on at a department store without bothering to hang it back up (fit it then quit it)? Or been saved by a Sephora when a last-minute invitation strikes and you’re without makeup (serendipretty)? Stephanie Simons, the author who shared with us her stiletto-sharp wit in All’s Fair in Love and Wardrobe, A Fashion Editor’s Rules on Shopping for Love, has a new resource on the market for stylish females to turn to when real words just won’t do.
Chic-tionary is a darling little dictionary of fashion and beauty words you never knew existed. It takes its inspiration from the peculiar and amusing language of fashion people like Tyra Banks (smize), Man Repeller (arm party), and André Leon Tally (dreckitude), and contains more than two hundred made-up acronyms, abbreviations, and afflictions that are certain to help you improve your fashion faux-cabulary. Malia Carter is also back with her delightful watercolor illustrations to accompany these fabstract terms.
According to Simons, a style maven, “every 3.5 seconds a new fashion word is born (coatigans, flatforms, jeggings, wooties, furkenstocks) that leaves an indelible glitter stain on the English language.” Therefore, once you learn the divine secrets of the fashion sisterhood, you may never read another fashion magazine or blog the same again.
Other terminally chic terminology includes:
- accessorcism – What needs to happen when you feel possessed to wear every piece of jewelry you own, all at once.
- bangover – The morning-after remorse that occurs after getting bangs that are too short and don’t behave.
- dresspassing – When another woman invades your territory by showing up in the same dress as you.
- fête-abolism – The phenomenon in which calories consumed while standing and making small talk at a fête don’t count.
- ideal body weight – Bradley Cooper on top of you.
Simons leaves us with a phonetic guide to saying every tongue-twisting fashion label correctly while also injecting this Tiffany pearl of wisdom, “as a general rule of thumb, only wear what you know how to pronounce, in the event someone asks who you’re wearing.”
Chic–tionary is currently available in store and online at Barnes & Noble.
About The Creators:
Stephanie Simons is the author of All’s Fair in Love and Wardrobe: A Fashion Editor’s Rules on Shopping for Love. An editor and writer of thirteen years for icons such as Daily Candy, she speaks fashion as her native tongue. Simons lives in the SF Bay Area where she specializes in editorial strategy, product naming, and advertising concepts for global retail brands such as Banana Republic, Tria Beauty, and Benefit Cosmetics. Malia Carter is a fashion illustrator and creator of DeepFriedFreckles.com. Her portfolio includes work for Teen Vogue and Kingsrowe Gallery. With her trusted watercolors, she is inspired by pop culture, trending style, and colorful compositions. Carter resides in Columbus, Ohio.
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