Body Shapes: How to Dress Your Body Shape

"How to Determine Your Body Shape and Dress to Flatter it
- Guide to Bringing Out the Best in Your Body Type!"

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Understanding your body figure is a very important aspect of looking your best.

Why?

Because you need to figure out what proportions of your body you need to adjust to look your best. This basically helps you determine how to correct and camouflage parts of your body so you can achieve a balanced silhouette!

There are several other factors involved in analyzing your body type. In addition to finding your horizontal figure (Pear, Inverted Triangle, etc.) you should also assess:

• Your Vertical Body Type
• Your Face Shape
• Your Weight
• Your Height
• Your Bone Structure
• Your Shoulder Size and Angle
• Your Neck Length and Circumference
• Any figure flaws such as a large bust, saddle bags, large stomach, etc.

I know, that's a lot to consider! But to get you started in looking your best, we'll focus mostly on analyzing your vertical and horizontal body type plus face shape. Or you can always purchase your own private stylist personalized program for about $79 (there's a discount, go and check it out) and get everything you need to know about how to wear clothes for your body type.

However, if you want to do the free way to determining and styling your body shape then follow my guidelines below!

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Disclaimer: I can not guarantee that the celebrities I have selected have the exact body figure as presented. The celebrity images are merely used as examples of how to dress for a specific body shape. Many celebs have stylists to help them get dressed and this may visually alter their actual silhouette.

How to determine your body shape -- we'll do a visualization of a dress form.	Are you short/long legged, short/long waisted or balanced.	Why fit is important + step-by-step guideline to taking your body measurements.	Check out this 3-part series on the golden rules to dressing your body figure.
The ideal body shape. Tips on how to flaunt your proportional figure.	Basic fashion advice for your body with curvy bottom compared to bust/shoulders.	Fashion & styling tips for wider upper body with narrow hips.	Styling tips and advice for women with little to no waist definition.
Fashion guidelines for full/wide torso compared to hips, known as apple shape.	Get your personalized style makeover program based on every aspect of your body figure!	Undertstand why having balanced body proportions matter and how to achieve it using 'Enhance & Minimize'.	Learn how to improve your self confidence and achieve a fabulous style and appearance.

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So What's the Real Deal With
Body Shapes and Clothes?

I know that saying that the hourglass body shape is what you should aim for sounds utterly shallow and 'shapist', but it IS the ideal body figure because it gives you more room to play up your best features such as a pretty face, great hair, great legs, etc. But of course, if you're proud of your J.Lo booty then by all means make it your trademark and shine!

Look at it this way:

Your goal is to create a visually balanced yet feminine silhouette – making it look like your bust and shoulders are at the same width of your hips.

Here's an example of how balancing out your silhouette can help flatter it:

Normally, a person with full torso will feel self-conscious about their heavy upper body. However balancing it out will improve this issue by making it look less heavy. So for example, if your hips are wider than the shoulders then you'll have to add more volume to your top half. Or if you have a straight waist you're going to have to find clothes that will add more width to your upper and lower part, making your torso look narrower. The key to looking fab and pulled together is to make your upper and lower body look in proportion with each other!

Balance is the key. As long as your outfit makes your body figure look balanced you're half way to looking fabulous. So yes, you can wear skinny jeans even if you have a wide lower bottom (pear body shape) as long as you fill out your upper body. Learn more about it here

Not only will understanding your body figure help you look your best, it will make shopping so much easier because you can steer yourself in the right direction to what you should buy. You'll save lots of time and money going this route.

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• How to Put Together Stylish Outfits
• Guide to Effective Closet Organizing
• Guide to Finding Your Unique Personal Style
• How to Determine Your Face Shape
• Basic guidelines to flattering all face shapes