Are you dressing for Your Body Type?
Part 1: Identifying Your Body Type
- Tip 4: Consider whether you’re a straight/rectangular body type.
About 46 percent of women are this shape where the waist is about the same as hips and bust. Your silhouette isn’t as curvy as the pear or apple bodies. Instead, you’ll look fairly straight up with flat shoulders.
- Unlike the prior two body types; the best way to determine for a rectangular type is to measure. Upon measuring, you’ll notice that your waist is one to eight inches smaller than your bust.
- Standing straight up, you should not notice any significant curves around the waist area.
- Your rib cage will define most of your shape, as there will be no waist definition to add curves.
- Despite being rectangular, you may still have a curvy bottom (similar to a pear bottom), or a wide chest with a little bit of extra weight around the midriff.
Part 1: Identifying Your Body Type
- Tip 5: Look at whether you have an hourglass body.
This is the least common with only 8 percent of women. The hip and bust measurements are usually equal, with a narrow waist.
- The defining characteristic of hourglass figure is a significantly defined waist with more or less proportional top and bottom.
- Hourglass shapes tend to be “curvy” both on top and on the bottom.
- You can still have an hourglass body even when: slightly fleshy upper arms, wider looking shoulders, or a slightly fuller bottom.