This guidebook also gives today’s growing girls remedies to dealing with sticky situations such as steering clear of gossip among their peers.
And it takes a whimsical but serious look at how to keep cool and radiate style when it comes to boys.
Learn good grooming.
Develop your individual "glam girl" style.
Keep cool and radiate style when it comes to boys.
Remedies to steering clear of gossip amoung peers.
Relate to teachers and authority figures.
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Chapter 4 Fashionista or Fashion Victim?
Now that we’ve addressed the first and most important layer of the New You, we’ll move on to the next: your wardrobe. And there’s a distinct difference when it comes to determining whether or not you’re a Fashionista or a Fashion Victim.
Being a Fashionista isn’t always about wearing the latest gear. You’ll find all different types of trends when it comes to fashion. Certain trends last for quite some time, while others may be considered in or out. And then there are those trends that are classic, meaning they never go out of style.
Sometimes, we see someone wearing a really cute outfit, and we decide we’d like to wear the same thing, too. But looking your best when it comes to clothes has so much more to do with your own personality than with what looks good on other people. This means you’re not going to be able to wear everything you see on television, in magazines or, for that matter, on other people.
People will notice you more if you’re wearing an outfit that complements your own personality. You want to avoid trying to mimic the hottest pop star or television starlet of the moment. Those ladies have wardrobe stylists who shop for them and put together really great ensembles for mega bucks.
Now, I’m not saying you shouldn’t watch television or read magazines. Those are great tools to help you follow the forecast for fashion trends. I get ideas from them to develop many of my own looks. I just don’t want you be a carbon copy of every other girl’s look out there. Taking the latest fashion trend and enhancing the look with your own savvy flare will make you more of a trendsetter, or Fashionista, at school and everywhere you go.
I’m going to list some tips that will help you when it comes to building your wardrobe. This way, you’ll have some really basic guidelines to fashion that never goes out of style, no matter what the current trend is.
Chapter 10 Mentor or Monster?
Once you leave the house and arrive at school, the people you have the most important contact with are your teachers. Your entire academic career will be most influenced by how well you communicate and get along with the people designated to guide you through each study subject. This is an area in which you must become socially savvy if you want to have success.
Does this mean you have to kiss up and try to be the teacher’s pet? Absolutely not! What I mean is that school presents some of your first experiences when you absolutely must get along with a person of authority—whether you like that person or not.
Throughout your future working career, you’ll come in contact with supervisors or managers with whom—for the good of the company—you’ll absolutely have to get along. So I suggest you look at the classroom as your practice ground for learning this skill.
A teacher can become one of two things in your life: either your mentor or your monster. Regardless of how teachers behave or come across, it’s your response to them that really sets the tone for how you get along with them.
Just remember that you’re in the classroom to learn and do well in your studies. You can react to things negatively and have a miserable school year, or you can use some simple good manners and get what you need from your class (a good grade for starters). Your attitude during class can be just as important as your academic achievements in determining how well you’ll get along with your teacher in that class. You don’t have to be best friends with your teacher; you just have to respect his or her authority.
Chapter 15 Words Are Alive
Have you ever been in a situation where you’ve said something negative about someone and regretted it later? Or have you ever learned that someone said something not-so-nice about you? In either situation, the outcome is usually that you end up feeling bad.
However, words are so alive they can impact people’s lives in not only negative but also positive ways. For example, words can give encouragement to someone who feels really down, or telling a person the truth can help that person avoid trouble.
The one underlying truth about the words that come out of our mouths is that we can never take them back. Once our words are released, they remain in the atmosphere to be heard, interpreted, contemplated and repeated by others.
What type of memories do you want to create through what you say? If you’ve never really given much thought to what you say, now is the time to begin doing so. Once spoken aloud, your words become both a part of your personal history and a part of other people’s memories.
Chapter 22 Respect: You Deserve It!
Alright, so you find yourself interacting with a boy and/or several peers who just happen to be boys on a regular basis now. Everyone is pretty friendly, and you seem to have a lot of fun together. You’ve become familiar enough to hang out together during lunchtime, at athletic games and while just walking through the halls between classes.
It’s important that you begin to develop a set of boundaries and standards for how you expect to be treated and how you expect boys to behave in your presence. While standing among a group of boys and girls, there’s nothing worse than feeling boiling mad and embarrassed because one of the guys has just said or done something very humiliating or embarrassing to you. I’ve been there before. You try to play it off by laughing with the rest of the group, but deep down inside, you’re absolutely mortified!
In order to avoid situations like this, you must set boundaries and standards—in your own mind, at first. Think about what’s important to you and how you would really like others to treat you. Respect yourself first, and know that you deserve to be treated with decency and respect. Why? Because you’re a special treasure, and you’re not going to settle for just any ol’ thing. It’s quite alright for you to have fun now. But there’s just a difference between fun and foolishness, and you don’t want to be the target of someone else’s foolishness.
Girls Have Style...at School! A Glam Girls Guide to Taking on the Day with Grace and Style By Elaine Swann
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