Here are a few interesting titles to help with learning how to Adorn the body. You'll notice some classist implications, which are always good to keep in mind from an LBM perspective. Paul Fussell's
Class: A Guide Through the American Status System will help as will his more specifically on topic
Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear.
Here are a few rough guides. These books are best for "Book store reads" rather then things you need in your library. Don't become a slave to any of these texts but do not dismiss them out of hand either.
Dress Your Best: The Complete Guide to Finding the Style That's Right for Your Body by Clinton Kelly and Stacy London
[A good overview for both sexes dealing with common body types and the ways people go wrong and right in picking cloths. The authors are the hosts of the American version of "What Not to Wear" which can be fun, but not nearly as good as the BBC version]
Details Men's Style Manual by Daniel Peres
[The folks who usually need the most advice on how to dress themselves tend to be the men who are attracted to Magical practice. We either come from fashion-inept lifestyles or we are aging subculturistas who haven't substantially changed our sense of style since our later teens/early twenties. This book will help upping your game some by giving you a grasp of the vocabulary of men's clothing and some ideas of what might work and what probably won't for you.]
Glamour's Big Book of Do's and Don't by Cindi Leive
[Much of my previous criticism for the Gentlemen above goes for the Ladies interested in Magical practice as well, though usually less extremely. This book was Glamour's attempt to use the format of Vice's brilliant "Do's and Don'ts" section to get some points across. Vice's roughly pointless but far funnier features can be found at
http://www.viceland.com/int/dos.php ]
