Body Shapes
Guide to Styling Your Body Shape - How to Bring Out the Best in Your Body Figure with Clothes!
We have 5 general body shapes, each of them having a different silhouette with their own different set of fashion and style guidelines that complement their shape.
The 5 silhouettes are: Pear, Inverted Triangle, Rectangle and Apple. And the Hourglass, which is considered the ideal body shape because of its balanced proportions.
Here’s what you’ll discover below:
- How to save money by analyzing your own coloring and know what colors look good with it
- How taking a “Gold or Silver” color test can cut your time in half when trying to figure out your best colors
- Colors that are worth investing in and what colors look good on most skin, hair- and eye colors
- Tricks to wearing colors that aren’t on your color palette
- … and more!
Understanding your body figure is a very important aspect of building your personal style.
Why?
Because you need to figure out what proportions of your body you need to adjust to look your best. Each body figure has typical characteristics that often make you self-conscious of your body and can lower your self-esteem. (For example, the classic Pear body figure tends to hold more weight around the hip area)
On the flip side, there are positives to your shapes as well – and these are the body traits that we wish to accentuate.
Basically – knowing your body proportions helps you decide how to correct and camouflage parts of your body so you can achieve a balanced silhouette – with curves on all the right places!
"Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions"
- Coco Chanel (French fashion designer)
How to Dress Your Body Figure
When I say “body shape” I’m referring to your horizontal body figure, but there are several other factors involved in analyzing your whole body figure.
So in addition to finding your horizontal shape (Pear, Inverted Triangle, Hourglass, etc.) you should also assess:
Your Private Stylist
- Your Vertical Body Type (Do you have short or long legs? Or a balanced body figure?)
- Your Face Shape
- Your Weight
- Your Height and Body Scale: Petite, Plus Size and Tall
- Your Bone Structure (thin, average or big-boned)
- Your Shoulder Size and Angle
- Your Neck Length and Circumference
- Any problem areas such as a large bust, muffin top, flabby arms, etc.