We have easy dressing tricks for all body shapes including yours! How many times have you bought clothes that just don’t look good on you? It gives you broad shoulders, an undefined waist, and a strange-looking bust area. But if your friend wears that exact outfit, it looks like it’s tailored just for her.

Well, it’s time for you to look your absolute best and not average like always. Dressing according to your body shape makes more difference than you would think.

And styling yourself based on your body shape not only makes you look good but also confident.

Body shapes can be broadly divided into:

• Hourglass 
• Pear or triangle
• Inverted triangle
• Rectangle 
• Round or apple

 We have curated an ultimate fashion guide for you based on your body type. Tops, skirts, jeans, and shorts and how to style them and look your best. 

Easy and Quick dressing tricks for all body shapes:

1. Hourglass body shape

Hourglass body shape can be recognised by the following features:

• overall curvy silhouette
• same width of shoulders and hips
• Your waist is smaller than your shoulders or hips.
• Full breasts and hips

If this sounds like you, you’re an hourglass body type. To look your best, emphasize your small waist by making good use of a thin belt, cinched dresses, high-waisted bottoms, and tops that accentuate your natural curves. Avoid heavily designed tops and bottoms that take attention away from your waist.

Tops

Go with well-fitted tops and waist-emphasizing tops like crop tops, peplum tops, wrap tops, and deep neck tops. Stay away from any topwear that doesn’t emphasize your small waist. Avoid high-neck tops, heavily designed tops on the front area, wide sleeves, and loose tops. These tops make you appear bigger, bulkier, and heavier than you are.

Bottom wear 

For bottomwear, look for a high waist and relaxed fit options like a cigarette, bootcut, or straight pants. Avoid low or mid-waist bottom wear since it makes your body shape look undefined and bulky.

Skirts or dresses

Go with cinched dresses that accentuate your waist, like A-line dresses, wrap dresses, bodycon dresses, and bias dresses. Tapered, pencil, and A-line are your best friends when it comes to skirts.

Jackets

For jackets, go with simple designs and unstructured jackets like fitted jackets, single-breasted jackets, and belted jackets. Avoid wearing jackets that hide your waist, like boxy or heavily designed jackets.

Pear or triangle body shape 

A pear-shaped body shape can be recognized by:

• Narrow shoulders and wide hips
• Small to medium bust
• Overall curvy silhouette

If this sounds like you, then you are a pear or triangle body type. Focus on making your shoulders appear wider to balance out your hips whenever you style yourself. This will make you look more proportionate and highlight your overall silhouette.

Tops 

To appear wider on the upper half, go with tops that have a structured and detailed style, like ruffled tops, embellished tops, and puffed-sleeve tops. However, in the case of long-sleeved tops, go with well-fitted sleeves to divert attention from your hips. Avoid bodycon tops if you wish to balance out your shoulders and hips.

Bottom wear 

Go with a high-rise cigarette, a flared bootcut, and straight jeans or trousers to tone down your heavy hips. Avoid detailed bottomwear and styles like low-waisted, skinny, and tapered. They make you look heavier and bulky.

Skirts and dresses

Go with a relaxed fit and high-waisted skirts like A-line, straight, pleated, or bias skirts. Avoid low-rise or body-hugging skirts.

For dresses, the styles that best suit the pear-shaped body are A-line dresses, tulip dresses, and wrap dresses. Avoid body-length or oversized dresses that hide your natural curves and make you look bulgy.

Jackets 

Go for jackets that either go below your hips or above your hips, like mid-thigh-length jackets, long blazers, cropped jackets, and trapeze jackets. Avoid hip-length jackets and blazers.

Inverted Triangle body shape 

Inverted triangle-shaped women have:

• Wide shoulders and comparatively smaller hips
• Small to medium bust
• Great legs 
• Overall athletic silhouette

If this is you, your main focus should be to put more attention on your hips and make your shoulders appear narrower to balance out your overall silhouette. This means you should dress plain on the upper half and style yourself with patterns and designs on the lower half.

Tops 

Wear tops that put less attention on your shoulders and make you look smaller. Top styles that look best on an inverted triangle body type are sleeveless, deep neck, bodycon tops, wraps, and peplum tops. Avoid anything with feminine frills, ruffles, structured sleeves, embellished tops, high necklines, and horizontal stripes. They make your shoulders appear wider and your hips smaller, hence making you look unproportionate.

Bottom wear 

For jeans and trousers, go with a relaxed fit that makes your hips look fuller and in balance with your upper half. The bottom wear styles that best suit an inverted triangle are cigarette, long flared, bootcut, and relaxed fit. Avoid wearing skinny or tapered jeans and trousers.

Skirts and dresses

Go with high-waisted skirts and a relaxed fit like A-line, Tulip, Pleated, and Bias skirts. Avoid pencils and tapered skirts. For dresses, go with similar styles like A-line, panelled waist, and pleated dresses. Avoid tight dresses with heavy embellishments or feminine frills on top.

Jackets

Wear smooth-finish single-breasted jackets, cropped jackets, or long jackets. Avoid double-breasted jackets with structured shoulders.

Rectangle body type 

Rectangle-body-shaped women have an overall straight silhouette and can be recognized by their:

• Average shoulders and hips
• Small to large bust
• Little definition waist

Almost everything looks good on a rectangle body type as long as they refrain from clothes that add to a more rectangular silhouette and balance their top and bottom wear.

Tops 

Make great use of feminine necklines and designs like sweetheart necks, V-necks, Halter necks, off-shoulder tops, wrap tops, and bow tops. Avoid necklines like Sabrina, Boat, Square, and Tight Sleeves.

Bottomwear 

For bottomwear, go with a moderately relaxed fit like a cigarette, bootcut, flared, cargo, or jogger fit. Avoid too much flare or very skinny jeans and trousers.

Skirts and dresses

Wear skirts with patterns and feminine styles like A-line, pencil, or pleated skirts. Avoid boxy or straight-fit skirts that give little definition to your waist. For dresses, go with A-line, cinched, pleated, X-line, wrap, and off-shoulder styles and avoid straight-fitted dresses.

Jackets 

For jackets, wear peplum, single-breasted, and long-structured jackets. Avoid cropped, boxy jackets.

Round or apple body type  

Round-body-shaped women have an overall curvy structure and can be recognized by their:

• Undefined waist 
• Uniform shoulders, bust, waist, and hip
• Average to large bust

Round or apple-shaped women need to emphasize their chest and waist to appear elongated.

Tops 

The styles that best suit the round or apple body type are trapeze, swing, and wrap tops. The necklines—wide-deep neck, sweetheart neck, V-neck, or scoop neck—look best on apple body types. Avoid fitted sleeves and high-neck tops.

Bottomwear

Wear a mid- or high-rise bootcut, straight jeans, and wide jeans. Avoid high-waisted skinny jeans. For trousers, go with mid-rise flared, palazzo, culotte, and relaxed fit styles. Avoid high-rise tapered trousers.

Skirts and dresses

For skirts and dresses, go with simple and relaxed styles. The skirt styles that look best on a round body type are flare, trumpet, high-rise, and bias skirts. Avoid tiered, layered, or too much detail at the bottom.

For dressing, the styles Empire, Wrap, and Bias look best on you. Avoid tapered or fitted dresses with bodycon in the hip area.

Jackets 

Wear jackets that are unstructured or simple, like cardigans, straight jackets, and long jackets. Avoid structured, double-breasted, and belted jackets.

No matter what body shape you are, you are beautiful and anything you wear will look good on you. But for more fruitful results, dressing based on your body type will win your an edge over majority of people who don’t consider their body type while dressing up.