Dressing our body shape.

Good evening!

Today my tip is about dressing your body type.  How we can use fashion cuts and styles to make our body shape look its best.  Below I have added a picture of the body shapes.

 

Imagine what each of these shapes have a line through them at the waist line.  Imagine what they would look like if they were snitched at the waist.  However as you can see the Pear and Inverted triangle are not fixed by the belt being at the waistline because they have to much weight on the shoulders (Inverted Triangle) or the hips (Pear)

 

For the pear:

 Your goal is to make the weight even through out your body. Pear shaped people have more of their weight around their hips and that is why you want to “distribute” the weight.   For example: if you were wearing jeans and wanted a simple top, go for a boat neck top.  This makes the shoulders appear wider and balances out your hips.  If you like prints, you want them to be from your waist up.

For the Inverted Triangle:

     Typically you have broader shoulders.  So to create the hourglass look you would want to add bulk around your hips.  Have fun with this. You could wear a cute ruffle skirt. If you are wearing Jeans you could wear a shirt that has a print or sequins at the bottom of the shirt. 

For the Apples: Empire waist look good on your body type. 

As long as you create a waistline you can pull of a lot of great outfits.

We are seeing a lot of people wear clothes that hide their body shape but here is the thing, shape is better then no shape.  So show off some of your sexy curves! Be proud of them!

Trick #1 If you are worried about your weight this is a very very simple trick…. BELTS!!! Lets face it; all of us have muffin tops (where just a little bit of skin seems to hang over our jean line. The trick is a belt! it takes of just a little bit of weight because It creates the illusion that the bulk there is the belt.  Now of course this only helps to some degree but the little it does do Is worth it. It also helps an outfit look put together.

Trick #2 wear a fitted undershirt and tuck it in! this will help eliminate some of the lines we have making them less obvious with whatever blouse we are wearing.

I am glad I tried it!

Well, I did it.  It took my friends help to get me out the door.  I wasn’t sure that this would ever be a good look for me, however as the day went on the more and more I grew to like it.   I have a major widows peak, so wearing my hair like this almost made me feel like I have a receding hairline. Ha ha.

   Taking “fashion risk” no matter how big or small it is can help you find fun things that you love, that compliment you. I hope some of you were able to try out a fun new look. 

Once you are willing to try new things is when you are ready for the fashion tips.  My reasoning behind that is sometimes we have so many objections that when a good idea for our body type comes, we turn it down. 

I ended up being happy about my new hairstyle, though I didn’t want to admit it because of all my strong anti feelings towards this look on me. No one likes to   Ha ha. Over the years I have taken a “fashion Risk” with hairstyles, mixing prep and punk, shoes, crazy tops and more.  Now that I have, I can say I know a good amount of the yes’ and no’s of fashion.

be wrong.

This Friday I will be making a post about a quick fix for body types. Not diets, heck no! I love my food, but by having the ideal body shape by using fashion trick illusions.