Dressing for your body type provides you the tools to identify your body shape, and leads you to the relevant material to learn to balance your appearance to look your best.

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What You Can Find in the Category Dressing for your Body Type
How Can You Determine your Body Type?
Before You Dive into Dressing for Your Body Shape …
Where to Start When You Know your Body Type

What You Can Find in the Category Dressing for your Body Type

Every person has horizontal and vertical body features that determine the person’s body type. For best personal style, it’s an urgent need to create vertical balance between the four quadrants of the body as well as horizontal balance between shoulders and hips, and create the illusion of a waist. Posts in the category dressing for you body type address how to achieve such balance.

Topics covered include, among others, styling tips for petite women to looking taller as a petite, how to master the style challenge top-heavy, what to wear when apple-shape, or styling secrets how to create a balanced look when being a short-waisted.

How Can You Determine your Body Type?

Posts lead to free body shape identifying quizzes so you can determine your body shape. The goal of the quizzes is to lead you to the post relevant for your own body shape. The respective post provides the overall concept, and points you to more detailed posts, if deemed necessary. For instance, posts with more example outfits or more in depth discussion of a particular aspect of a general concept. Or to posts that discuss a style subject with respect to various shape types. For instance, which are the right belts for you or how to chose your pants or how to make prints and stripes work for you or how to look slim in a waterfall cardigan. Consequently, you can learn dressing for the body shape you have without the guess-work involved.

Before You Dive into Dressing for Your Body Shape …

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Where to Start When You Know Your Body Type?

Then start here when you are

Pear-shaped
Ruler or banana-shaped also aka straight-up and down
Big and Tall
Size 14 and up

For the other body shapes start at the relevant links given earlier on this page.

chic woman wearing plus size

See How You Can Look Chic in Size 14 And Up

Tips what to wear when you are a size 14 or up to look posh and chic in midlife.

Tall big guy in corporate style with a gray suit and white shirt needing a tie. Image by Pexels from Pixabay

Guide to Dressing for Big and Tall People

Finding the right outfits to wear when you are big and tall can pose a unique challenge. You want to make sure that you pick out an outfit that looks…

Image credit: Pexels

How You Can Make Stripes and Prints Work for You

This post for senior women of various body shapes provides tips how to wear prints and pattern and use them strategically for a more balanced body appearance.

Great Northwest denim shirt with Loft flare jeans, white Fossil denim jacket, Coach bag, Studio strappy multi-color sandals and statement belt (all own)

46 Undeniable Truths to Chose Your Pants

Ultimate pants guide: Tips, tricks to find the best pants for any occasion, your body, lifestyle, what to look for in trousers, which one you should own

How to Master the Style Challenge Top Heavy

Styling tips on what to wear and not to wear when you have a full bust and photos of best style for this top heavy body type, outfit ideas trend update.

Gaußian distribution (From: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/08/07/earth-indicator-3%CF%83/), mean and various standard deviation and when you are a regular size, petite size or tall size

27 of the Best Styling Tips for Petite Women

This post provides 27 tips and tricks how to dress to look serious and taller than you are in all life situations (work, dancing, weekend) when you are petite

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