Legendary costume designer Edith Head dressed everyone from Audrey Hepburn to the recently departed Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday, and the sartorial wisdom she picked up along the way still has surprising resonance decades after the Mad Men era. The recent re-release of her style book, How to Dress for Success (Abrams, $19.95) is full of amazing advice that's as useful in 2011 as it was when it was first published, in 1967.
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