The days of starving to fit in are over!
Pretty Plus delivers specific guidance and the secrets to transforming the plus-size woman to looking terrific
and self-confident while carrying 20, 50, or even 100 extra pounds. The best investment a plus-size woman will ever make,
this guide demonstrates that style, comfort, and sexiness can coexist with a bigger body. This go-to source includes tips
on shopping, choosing perfect attire, and accessorizing for career, leisure, and romance. Illustrations and an informative
list of resources show how to create the perfect appearance from head to toe. The "Light to the Face: Spotlight You"
chapter address keeping the face bright and alluring with skin care, makeup, hair, and eyewear, and "Beachwear: No Kidding!"
identifies the best swimsuit styles for larger frames. Whether at the workplace or social settings, the robust woman can feel
comfortable while looking amazing.
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Library Journal 2/15/2010
Having struggled with weight issues her entire life, Hope, a national Plus-Size Fashion
Examiner...wants to help her plus-sized sisters look sexy, sensational and successful. Her guide includes suggestions
for purchasing quality undergarments, building outfits that accent one's frame instead of weight, and selecting accessories
that highlight one's best feature. While her instructions for building essential wardrobe inventory cards may seem a
bit over the top, her tips on body language can be put into practice immediately. Positive, practical advice for the
thousands of women who do not fit the fashion industry's ideal; destined to be a hit.
STLtoday.com
Why settle for looking 10 pounds thinner? by Patricia McLaughlin
Babe Hope thinks women who wear
plus-size should forget about dressing to look thinner and instead dress to look pretty...
After a lifetime of struggling
to look acceptable, though fat, then deciding to give up on acceptable and go for looking fabulous, and then launching a business
that helps other plus-size women decide how they want to look and shop for a wardrobe that delivers, she's written a book...
Another
problem for women who wear plus sizes is how much of the fashion advice they get comes from fashion editors who, as a condition
of employment, live on lettuce and therefore can't know what they're talking about...they don't quite get the obstacles their
larger readers are up against...
But what's most impressive about the book is it's ambition: It goes way beyond
offering to make large women look marginally thinner. Hope -- her name couldn't be more appropriate - wants to change
your way of being in the world, liberate you from your culturally induced sense that you need to be apologizing for youself,
free you to take pleasure in who you are and how you look. Brava!
The Paramus Post 3/16/2010
Plus-Size Fashion Tips by Sharon Mosley
When it comes to wearing plus-size
clothes, it's all about attitude, says Babe Hope, author of a new guidebook: "Pretty Plus: How to Look Sexy, Sensational
and Successful No Matter What You Weigh" (New Horizon Press, $14.95) Since Hope has struggled with weight issues all
her life, she has decided to transform her "pitty party" into a "pretty party" by writing a book that
gives new fashion skills to plus-sized women.
One of Hope's biggest tips centers around accessories: "For us curvy
women, much of fashion, in terms of clothing, is dictated by fit," she says. "But when it comes to accessories,
the sky's the limit and the opportunity to create "focus" on meaningful attention and expression abounds.
The plus-size woman should revel in this opportunity."
Bookviews by Alan Caruba 4/2010
In a culture that is obsessed with being thin, many women have had to struggle with weight loss, constant
diets, and the demand to look their best. Have I got a book for them! Pretty Plus: How to Look Sexy, Sensational and
Successful No Matter What Your Weight ($14.95, New Horizon Press, softcover), just out this month. Babe Hope, its
author, provides step-by-step guidance that shows how plus-size women can be stunning and raise their self-esteem at the same
time. This is a real go-to source filled with tips on shopping, choosing the right attire, and accessorizing for career, leisure,
and romance. This is the book full-figured women have been waiting for. The author holds bachelor’s, Master’s
and law degrees, as well as a Doctorate, so this is not some airhead bunch of bubbly nonsense. It’s the real thing.
ForeWord Reviews 1/13/2010
For readers who've decided to exchange "lose weight" for "be happy,"
there's Babe Hope's Pretty Plus: How to Look Sexy, Sensational and
Successful, No Matter What You Weigh (New Horizon Press)...In Pretty
Plus she discusses ways that women with different shapes can camouflage the negatives and accentuate the positives
of their figures. She includes chapters on underwear, coats and accessories. The book also contains helpful illustrations
of casual and dressy outfits for women of each silhouette. Later chapters discuss make-up, body language, posture, and lists
of resources for plus-size women.
