Book ~ "Pretty in Plaid" (2009) Jen Lancaster

From Goodreads ~ In Pretty in Plaid, Jen Lancaster reveals how she developed the hubris that perpetually gets her into trouble. 

Using fashion icons of her youth to tell her hilarious and insightful stories, readers will meet the girl she used to be. Think Jen Lancaster was always "like David Sedaris with pearls and a super-cute handbag?" (Jennifer Coburn) Think again. She was a badge-hungry Junior Girl Scout with a knack for extortion, an aspiring sorority girl who didn't know her Coach from her Louis Vuitton, and a budding executive who found herself bewildered by her first encounter with a fax machine. 

In this humorous and touching memoir, Jen Lancaster looks back on her life-and wardrobe-before bitter was the new black and shows us a young woman not so very different than the rest of us. The author who showed us what it was like to wait in line at the unemployment office with a Prada bag, how living in the city can actually suck, and that losing weight can be fun with a trainer named Barbie and enough Ambien is ready to take you on a hilarious and heartwarming trip down memory lane in her shoes (and very pretty ones at that).

After all my growling a couple weeks ago about not particularly liking Lancaster in Bitter is the New Black, I liked her in this book. There was no arrogance or shallowness ... just a comic and sarcastic tone as she talks about past experiences.

I remember very well the scary styles of the 1980s (she spends a lot of the book in this era).

I'd recommend this book ... I enjoyed it much more than Bitter is the New Black and will continue to read future books of hers.