Body Shapes, What To Wear, What Not To Wear

What to wear and what not to wear ? This is a very common question among women. One of the important factors of dressing is to conceal your weak point and accentuate your best but the most important thing is to feel comfort and confidence. Every woman have their own unique figure, no two women are the same, so knowing your Body Shape first than you will know What To Wear and What Not To Wear.

Basic Principle

The basic principle of dressing is to either balance up your body proportion or drawing attention away from your weak area.

For balancing your body proportion, it can be done by wearing clothes of certain cut, style, color or fabric to create a visual effect of reducing or enlarging part of your body. E.g., set-in sleeve make a shoulder look smaller, gathers to look bigger, black or dark color minimizes, white, light or bright color maximizes, big flower print to enlarge, horizontal stripes make you appear wider, vertical stripes you look longer and leaner and etc

To drawing attention away from your weak area, this can be done by emphasizing more on your best area, can also be done via design, style and color or put on some attractive accessories or printed fabric. E.g. If you have a beautiful shoulder, wearing off shoulder clothes will draw attention to your shoulder, a low neckline will draw attention to your beautiful bust, a sparking diamond necklace will draw attention to your chest, sleeveless garments, hot pants and mini skirt to show off your sexy limbs and etc

Figure Flaws

For those who having figure flaws, listed below are just some general guidelines when choosing your clothes, it doesn’t mean if you fit into a particular group, you can’t wear that particular type of clothes. Sometimes with a bit of creativity in balancing your proportions, mix and match, or accessories, you might just look fabulous. So go and try it, you never know unless you try. Don’t always stick to a design or style because of your flaw, give yourself a chance to try sometime new, you will be surprise with the outcome of your new image.

Narrow shoulders

What To Wear: To broaden your shoulder or draw attention downward. Try wearing shoulder pads and wide necklines that is wide and shallow which delivers a horizontally widening effect such as Boat necks. Clothes with more details on top will have a widening effect. Tops with horizontal stripes will also help to broaden your shoulders.

What Not To Wear: Avoid necklines that is narrow and plunging such as narrow deep V, U or square shapes. As it is narrow and deep, it will draw the eye inwards and diminish your shoulders even further. More info on Narrow Shoulders

Broad shoulders

What To Wear: To create a visual balance between your wide upper body and narrow lower body. You simply need to choose clothing that helps make your shoulders look proportional to the rest of your figure, make your broad shoulders look attractive and showcase femininity. You also need to shift the emphasis from your shoulders to the more flattering body parts.

What Not To Wear: Wearing top with too many details like gathers, pleats and puffy sleeve, it will make you look big and wide on top, Stay away from tops made of bulky fabrics or design that emphasize your shoulders,. Also avoid bold patterns, large checks, horizontal stripe and light colors above your waist. More info on Broad Shoulders

Fleshy upper arms

What To Wear: To conceal the fleshy upper arm. Go for top with sleeve, you may still go for sleeveless with a cardigan or jacket

What Not To Wear: Stay away from sleeveless top.

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