Body Shape Fashion
Tips on Clothes, Tip # 1:
Create illusions with lines
while dressing for
your body type

Let's learn to use body shape fashion tips on clothes to create illusions with lines. If dressing for your body type inspires a desire to visually lengthen and slenderize an area or to visually widen and shorten an area or to emphasize or de-emphasize an area we can learn something from the positioning and intensity of lines.

No matter which woman body types we’re considering, each one can be artistically and strategically presented by the owner of the body, you.

The way lines are positioned impacts how the eye responds to them, even when it comes to womens professional clothing, regardless of woman body types.

Body Shape Fashion Tips on Clothes # 1, Part A
Using Lines: Taller & Slimmer

Causing the eye to move up a woman’s body, without interruption, accomplishes the task of making her look taller and slimmer. When lines are positioned in a manner similar to the diagrams below, whether they are part of the fabric’s pattern or part of the garment’s construction details (e.g., seams, darts, pleats), a longer and slimmer looking silhouette is achieved.

Single vertical lines or vertical lines placed relatively close together carry the eye up a woman’s body, elongating and slenderizing the figure.

Although, it may come as a surprise, if dressing for your body type consists of wanting a longer, slimmer appearance, even horizontal lines spaced close together will help you achieve that end.

When the upward movement of the eye is interrupted or directed around an object, the area or body appears to be shorter and more voluminous…think horizontal lines or vertical lines that aren’t spaced close together…or diagonal lines that point toward the center of the body rather than toward the head or feet if dressing for your body type includes wanting to minimize height and maximize width.

Check out the images below, how are your eyes directed?

Body Shape Fashion Tips on Clothes # 1, Part C
Using Lines: Emphasis & De-emphasis

We’ve discussed it, eyes follow lines…womens business clothes usually include several different kinds and types of lines. Which ones do you think get the most attention (look below and take a guess)?

So, if you want to emphasize your face have a bolder line at your neckline…want to highlight your waist, put the bold line at your waist…if you want to showcase your great legs, you guessed it, put the strongest line at your legs.

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Dressing Different Body Types Fashion Tip #2

Create illusions with color and patterns

From color coordinating clothes to color placement, learn how strategically dressing for your body type can enhance your professional image.

My Body Type Fashion Tip #3

Learn to create illusions with texture and details to showcase the areas of your body that you want to or not...

After you've learned to dress body types, you'll know what happens when one woman wears a shiny fabric in contrast to fabric with a matte finish or if she wears slacks with pockets on the hips versus the back of her pants?

Dressing for Body Type Fashion Advice Matrix

Dressing for your body type can be simplified after you've reviewed the tips on the women's business clothes for your body shape and this matrix/chart is a quick reference tool.

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