How To Find The Perfect Women’s Dresses For Your Body Shape

Women’s dresses can be the answer to just about every style dilemma. There are dresses to suit just about every occasion, body shape and budget. Once you have worked out the best styles shapes of women’s dresses for your body shape not only will you make shopping so much easier  but you will always look amazing where ever you are going. When it comes to looking good, it doesn’t really matter what shape or size you are. The important thing is that you pick the right style of dress to compliment and flatter your figure. Areas that you don’t like can be disguised or balanced out and the areas that you like can be highlighted so that they are the first thing that people notice. Clever choice of choice of your clothes whether they are plus sized dresses or petite dresses will make it look like you have your own personal stylist. So here are some top tips that stylists use to dress the four main body shapes.

Pear Shaped

A pear shape is the name used to describe ladies who tend to gain weight on their hips and thighs. They also tender to have smaller busts and waists. Flattering clothes for the pair shape will be those that skim over hips and thighs with nothing too tight fitting in this area but with a fitted top to highlight the relatively slim waist. They will also have dark colours on the bottom half and will concentrate detail and fuss to the top half. Wide or boat necks are great for balancing the hips as are wider hems and detail along the hem line. Probably the most flattering of all styles for a pear shaped lady is an a line dress. The hem should fall at about knee length (just above or below is fine).

With a black a line skirt and white top, this 2 in one dress by Ben De Lisi at Debenhams is a great work outfit for pear shaped ladies.

Apple Shaped

Apple shaped is the term used to describe ladies that tend to gain weight around their middle. They tend have slender arms and legs. Women’s dresses for the apple shape is all about finding styles that skim over the stomach area. Apple shaped ladies should avoid style that have lots of fuss, detail or belts around the torso but instead look for anything that creates a vertical or diagonal line down the torso, and dresses that show off the arms and legs. Empire lines dresses and draped dresses are both very flattering options for apple shaped ladies. The baby doll dress which is a mini version of the empire line dress will also look amazing.

This Cotton Floral Hitched Dress ticks all the right boxes for the apple shaped lady. It had a fitted top and the loose fitting body skims over the tummy area.

Hour Glass Shaped

Ladies with larger hips and bust and a comparatively small waist are described as hour glassed shape. This is a classic curvy and feminine figure that looks great with a variety of dress styles. The key thing to remember for this shape is that fitted dresses are great but they should always skim rather than cling. Hour glass shapes should always wear underwear that gives plenty of support and wear dresses fitted at the waist to highlight the slimmest part of their body. If a dress is not fitted at the waist, it can usually be cinched in with a pretty belt to give some definition.

This Hope Floral Rose Dress by Boohoo looks great on hour glass figures when the waist is highlighted with a belt in a contrasting colour.

Rectangular Shape

Ladies that have little waist definition and curves can be described as rectangular shape. They are very lucky as there is no area that they need to minimise and there are many styles of Women’s dresses that will look great on them. Dresses that help to create an illusion of curves with details like peplums or flared and puffball skirts will all look great on this body shape. Rectangle shaped ladies should avoid low waisted dresses as these can look boyish and straight up and down sheath dresses which can highlight a lack of curves. Instead they should wear bias cut dresses, full skirted dressed and shift dresses with some shape to them.

This Wispa Dress by Motel  was made for ladies with a rectangular shape. The large polka dots add some interest and the slightly flaring skirt adds some shape.

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Michelle Obama, Barack is not the only one for Change

Come Tuesday 20th January 2009, History will be made. Barack Obama will be sworn in as the the 44th American president .

It is widely anticipated that change will sweep through the country as promised during his campaign, with his “we can fix it” chant on the night of his victory, and boy don’t we need it?

However, change is a comin’ in more ways than one, most notably with the first lady. As everyone knows, Michelle Obama became a fashion icon during her husbands campaign in 2008, preferring outfits from affordable High Street fashion brands such as Gap and J Crew, with those worn becoming so popular they sell out withing hours with one particular yellow outfit becoming J Crews best seeling item of 2008.

In fact people have started to liken her to Jackie Kennedy, with her elegance, grace and fashion sense.

At 45 years old she is the youngest first lady since Jacqui Kennedy to be in the White House, Jacqui last graced the residence on Pennsylvania avenue at around about the same time as Michelle was born in 1963. Nevertheless her profile as an intelligent hot shot corporate lawyer and “mom”, Michelle Obama is on the brink of becoming the new clothes horse, or dare I say it, the new Diana, perhaps that’s something to be judged on hide sight?

Like Diana though, Her ability to sell out dresses within hours as experienced last year has become stuff of legends and means that whatever she wears on Tuesday at the inauguration will be as significant to the fashion world as Barack to the real world.

Its not only the main inaugural event that will have such a fashion focus, but indeed the tour of the ten or so balls that the New Mr and Mrs President will attend afterwards, once the main political event has finished, the fashion event begins.

While Oscar de la Renta will be designing Hilary Clinton’s evening dress, rumours are that Michelle will pick an American designer, but according to Grazia magazine designers such as Marchesa and Badgley Mischka could be in contention or perhaps Rodarte if she is risque, or perhaps she’ll turn to favoured Chicago Designer Mario Pinto who Mrs Obama has entrusted with so many of the designs she has favoured during the campaign trail of 08.

However, whatever the choice she will look fantastic, and within days you’ll be able to buy a copy of it yourself somewhere on the high street.

Legs Eleven

If you’re bit leggy, here’s a couple of tips to help you dress for your shape.

You’ve got GREAT assets that most women would die for, a great set of pins. They’re long, elegant and slims your body down, you can get away with wearing so much more than if you were any other shape.

Tips:

Women’s dresses to suit your shape on an elegant night out is definitely a maxi dress. An elegant Evening dress which shows off those long legs, wear bright colours and show a bit of shoulder.

Show off your legs with devastating effect with a pair of flat riding boots worn with thick black tights and a tartan mini skirt which is totally hot this winter.

Super sexy and change the black tights for the over the knee socks… sizzling!

For a coat try a funnel neck belted coat fasten around the waist emphasizes shape and femininity.