Can you Change your Body Shape?

Dark colors RECEDE and will make you look smaller while light colors come FORWARD and make you look larger.  

Enhance your best features with light or bright colors and hide a problem area with darker shades. 

Large bust and slim hips? Light bright colors and shiny fabrics will draw the eye - so keep your darker colors to the top and allow the eye to be drawn to slim hips. 

Small bust and larger hips? Keep darker colors to the bottom half of your body and bring the eye upwards with a brighter or lighter shade.

The images to the left do, in fact, change your body shape. 

• Wear the lightest color on your top half to draw the eye, you're immediately taller and slimmer. 
  

• The loose fabric creates a larger top half to balance the width of the hips

• Add heels, even a small wedge, to lengthen the legs.  

• The cut of your pants makes a difference. Excess fabric makes hips look bigger and cut off legs make you look wider/shorter; straight leg pants lengthen the leg.

• You're in control. If you have a large bust and like to play it down avoid shiny or sparkly fabrics. 

Wide leg pants and top from Chico's

There's no such thing as the perfect figure but there are easy ways to balance every Body Type.

Check out the styling tips for each:

• Hourglass
• Pear shape
• Rectangle
• Inverted triangle
• Apple shape

And if you have a particular 'figure challenge' - wide hips, worried about your arms etc. - there are lots of ways you can dress to disguise or camouflage your concern here.