INTRODUCTION TO BASIC BODY SHAPES.

The shape and silhouette of your garment can be a very important part of communicating the message you want in
your design.

There are 8 major female body shapes according to a study of over 6000 women. The major body shapes are:

•Straight Body Type

•Pear Body Type

•Spoon Body Type

•Hourglass Body Type

•Top Hourglass Body Type

•Inverted Triangle Body Type

•Oval Body Type

•Diamond Body Type

•Your hips are wider than your shoulder
•Fat tends to accumulate on your thighs and sometimes the buttocks
•You tend to have an elongated waist and the legs tend to be shorter in comparison to the rest of your body
•You have a defined waist
HOURGLASS SILHOUETTE

An HOURGLASS SILHOUETTE emphasizes at the SHOULDERS and the HIPS. The waist is cinched in. This silhouette gave the
garment a very feminine appearance, emphasizing NATURAL feminine curves.

The early 1900's hourglass silhouette cinched the waist in unmercifully using a CORSET, and sometimes women would have lower
ribs SURGICALLY REMOVED to achieve this unrealistic silhouette.

A bodycon
sweater dress
Use geometric accessorized
shapes and with a thin belt at
patterns to your the waist is a
advantage to help beautiful way to
create the illusion really draw
of a perfect attention to your
hourglass figure. hourglass figure.
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Well, look for lines colors and
that narrow at the textures, just so
waist, visually long as you don’t
slimming that area go too bulky.
even more.
A tent dress is a dress that hangs loose from shoulder to below the hips, and does not have a waistline. They are
worn without belts of elastic so that the dress will hang without a waistline.