Flatter Me

Hi friends!

Welcome to the flatter me series. So many people confuse being fashionable with wearing the latest fashion trends alone. Its not everything that you see on the fashion rack that you pay for. Some clothes are meant to remain on-the-rack. We want to look like the Beyonces and Rihannas, or appear like Kanye West or Trey Songz, but sorry to disappoint you,  we all can't pull it off.

In order to turn heads, we need to own what we wear. I am not talking about buying clothes-how you get your clothes is nobody's business-what I mean is owning the look; don't let the clothes wear you but wear them. It's one thing for someone to see you wearing a Rihanna jacket and another thing for the person to say you look good in a Rihanna jacket.

There are different female body shapes and these shapes determine the clothes that will fit perfectly. These body shapes are based on the physical features and overall balance of our body. There are basically four female body shapes: apple, banana, pear and hourglass. The bust, waist and hips are the three inflection points used to calculate these body shapes.

APPLE
Apple shaped females tend to have wider upper body and narrow lower body. They have a full face and neck, broad shoulders, big bust, big midsection, undefined waist, narrow hips, flat bum and lovely legs. They are also known as the inverted triangle.

BANANA
Banana shaped females tend to have proportionate shoulders and hips with tiny indentation for their waist. Hence, their shape is also referred to as ruler or rectangle. They have full neck, broad back, small bust, balanced figure (shoulder to hip), undefined waist and great arms and legs.

PEAR
Pear shaped females have small shoulders and wide hips. They are also referred to as the triangle. Their features include a slender neck, narrow shoulders, small to medium sized bust, defined waist, full hips and thighs and full bum.

HOURGLASS
Hourglass shaped females have wide shoulders and hips but with tiny waist lines. They have wide shoulders (symmetric to hips), moderate bust, distinctively defined waist, full hips and shapely legs.

Those are the basic features of the female body shape so the next time you look in the mirror, do identify your body shape because the key to looking fabulous starts with knowing yourself. As mentioned earlier on, these are the basic shapes although there may be variations of these shapes. For instance, you may have a slim apple-shaped figure and a big apple-shaped figure but still an apple.

Thanks for reading my blog, for more on the female body shape, especially on their dos and don'ts, keep following my blog for the Flatter Me Series.