Flattering Clothing for YOUR Body Shape: How to Choose
One of my favorite childhood stories was “The Princess & The Pea.”
After that story was read to me, I began to secretly believe I must be a princess.
When I was in my early twenties I was shopping at Marshall Fields and I discovered a dress that I called “my princess dress.”
I guess it was my secret childhood belief that I was really a princess that made me fall for that dress.
If you think about how Fiona from the movie “Shreck” looked before she turned into an ogre, that was my image of a princess.
My princess dress looked like the dress Fiona wore. It was dark blue velvet with a deep v neckline and princess darts. It narrowed at the waist and had a soft flowing a-line skirt and it was long. This was many years ago before Shreck had been made and my idea of what a princess wore came from my viewing Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty.
Walt Disney Princess dress
I put that dress on many times but was never able to wear it out of the house because instead of looking like a princess, I looked like a stuffed sausage.
The dress was my size but even when I exercised and toned up and lost a few pounds, I never looked good in it. It hung in my closet for several years unworn.
Finally, I gave it to a friend of mine who had similar coloring to me and was the same height, and weight as me. The minute she pulled it over her head she look like a princess.
Why did she look so wonderful in the dress and why did I look so awful in the dress?
The answer- body shape
I have a wide waist and narrow hips and she had a narrow waist and wider hips.
The dress narrowed where I widened and widened where I narrowed.
my body shape, no waist definition, narrow hips
My narrow parts were hidden and my wider parts were emphasized by the style of the dress.
My friend looked fantastic because the dress shape was an extension of her body shape.
My friends body had a defined waist and wider hips
Body shapes have both curved and straight lines, but there will be a predominance of more curves or more straight lines.
If your body shape is more curved, clothing with waist definition will be more flattering.
If your body is straighter, like mine, clothing without waist definition will be more flattering.
Simple rule when choosing clothes
Choose clothing that widens where your body widens and narrows where your body narrows
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