Style Your Body Shape

Wardrobe Planning Step 1: How Do You Spend Your Time?

When I started researching for this project what I planned was a a short session where I sat down, filled in a couple blank questionnaires and hey presto! shopping list. With only a little preliminary research I already know that its not going to be that simple. So ... What Is ...

New Project: Plan A Wardrobe

I've always had this dream about clothes - specifically a wardrobe full of beautiful, sexy clothes that fit wonderfully and are perfectly me. Possibly this is not much of a surprise since you're reading this on my blog about style. That said I have to say I'm not much of a ...

Where To Go From Here

I haven't posted for a while because I've been in two minds as to whether to continue this blog or not. Recently I've been reading lots of different stuff about body image. I struggle constantly with my own body image, and it tends to permeate every part of my life. When ...

Must Not Have Dress

I saw this gorgeous dress on one of the style blogs I subscribe to. Truly this is a beautiful dress but since the post was entitled "must buy for autumn" or words to that effect I just had to laugh because this dress is actually not going to flatter a ...

Boobs or Butt? The Basics of Evening Wear

Recently the VMA's were held and in true completely superficial fashion (pun intended) I've been checking out what all the stars wore and, just as interesting, what people have to say about that. Everyone has a different viewpoint. One thing all the commentators seem to agree on is that highlight ...

Are You A Pervert?

The other day I read an article about a piece published in the Observer, a British paper. They'd taken a couple of size 16 women, models, and done a photo shoot. The idea being that size 16 is the average size of British women. They were shocked by the results ...

The 12 Shapes Of Trinny & Susannah

The more I learn about body shape the more resistant I am to actually defining a shape. One of the things that I, personally, have gained from writing this website is a greater measure of understanding of my own body and the shape that it is. How that translates into ...

Site Review: myShape.com - Clothes To Fit Your Shape

One of the things I really want to achieve with this site is a resource where you can find good information, for free, on how to dress for your shape, so that other people like me, who didn't know an empire line from a kitten heel, can, from scratch, develop ...

Should Someone Pear Shaped Wear A Pencil Skirt?

Susana Monaco skirt - $47.40 from JBandme.com I've had quite a few queries about pencil skirts and pear shapes so wanted to address that. I love this awesome pencil skirt and it's definitely something that I might wear and I'm a pear shape. But then not all pear shapes are ...

6 Things That Will Instantly Make You Look Bigger

This is a list of things that will make you look bigger. I've tried to concentrate of things that we unintentionally wear not realizing the effect they will have, so I haven't mentioned the obvious things like a downy parka or a thick knit sweater - because, well, duh! Weed ...