TV Fashion

Like the Oscars, television will not help you find the most affordable clothes. It will however put some ideas in your head: What looks good? What are other people wearing?
Watching TV with those questions in mind you can take your findings to Target, Marshalls or Value City and find some cheaper variations of Debra Messing’s button down shirt or Teri Hatcher’s sun dress.
Besides the regular sitcoms and dramas there are shows on cable that deal solely with fashion, there is even a network (Style). From Style we have “The Look for Less” this show began a couple of years ago and has changed from little vignettes of shopping to a show where stylists race around a mall to find an outfit for their “client” that is identical to a picture of a designer piece. Oh yeah and they’re on a budget.
The show in my opinion is not the look for less. They used to have $100 budgets but now the rates have gone up. They give their stylists more money and some of the outfits they have to get are very simple and sometimes the outfits they come back with just don’t work the way they should.
I prefer TLC’s “What Not to Wear” with hosts Stacy London and Clinton Kelly. The show does not pretend to be looking for cheap pieces. For an hour one person is deconstructed, having their clothes thrown out, given some rules and $5,000 to shop in New York City. London and Kelly dress well themselves and they give their charges the best advice they will ever get. They know what works on body types and they know that you can find a way to incorporate all the things you want into an outfit that will accentuate any figure.
Watch these shows and get ideas, then go shopping with your own set of rules.