Elevate your daily style!
Firstly learning about your body should not be a negative experience, if at any part while reading my blog you feel bad just stop and you can revisit this topic at another time. so the first step is to understand your height. Height does not play that much important role while styling your outfits as much as proportions do but one needs to consider it while starting to understand your body type. If two people are the same height there are 90 percent chance that you both will look different in the same outfit because of different body proportions.
Now comes step number two how to discover your body proportions. Let’s start with shoulders are they broad or normal? So to identify this stand in front of a mirror and see if the shoulders align with the hips or are wider than your hips another way to identify this is if you wear a fitted shirt so that it only feels a little tight or uncomfortable around the shoulder armhole then you have broad shoulders. Now let’s look at the ratio between the bust, waist, and hips, understanding the ratio between hips waistline and bust plays an important role in accommodating garments perfectly on your body when you look at the ratio of these three you will be able to see whether you have an hourglass, pear, square, or round. body shape. Then comes an understanding of the upper body which is till the waistline and lower body ratio which is from your waistline to toe.
So one needs to understand whether their upper body is longer than their lower body or their upper body is shorter than their lower body or both bodies are balanced. To understand this I use a double hand method , so what you have to do is depicted in the picture, if your hand covers the belly button then you have a short upper body and if it covers half of it then you have an average upper body and it the belly button comes completely under the second hand then you have a long upper body, this may not be the perfect way to find out, but it pretty much works. The last thing is to understand body fat distribution which means where your body stores fat you need to determine it. If you figure out which part of your body contains fat then it helps you to accommodate garments better and you could focus on cutting the fat from that specific area as it might disrupt your overall body shape and you might have difficulty styling even those outfits that would suit your body shape. I hope you understand how one can understand their body shape. Now go stand in front of the mirror and identify your body shape and proportions.
