You can lose weight and build up muscle to change your body shape but you can never change your body structure. That is why your Body Type always remains the same whatever your size.
But YOU CAN CERTAINLY change the way your body shape LOOKS by the way you dress.
With a clever use of COLOR, DESIGN and STYLE you can create an optical illusion so that your body shape does in fact look different!
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.
Wide leg pants and top from Chico's
Color and patterns also draw the eye - so use them creatively. Right and left dresses above - does your eye instinctively go to the color and pattern part of the figure first? In the centre the V design on the bodice and optical illusion skirt creates a narrow silhouette - instant slim.
Whatever your Body Type you can influence the way you look. Take the Body Type Quiz then consult the relevant section and see how to dress to flatter your own figure.
If you want to specifically disguise a problem area, see how to dress your own body shape and you'll find easy answers to most of your problems.
Hardly anyone has a perfect figure but there are easy ways to balance every Body Type.
Check out the styling tips for each:
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.
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