How To Dress For Your Body Type

Hi. I'm Zoe Lem, stylist and owner of My Sugarland, and today, I'm going to give you some insider's tips on how to do fashion. And now, I'm going to tell you how to dress for your body type.

So, everyone is different no matter how much we can categorize. Every single body is different and all these years I have been styling, every single body is different. But it's really about understanding what shape you are and then dressing for it.

So, for me, I categorize into 3 sections - hourglass, pear shape and straight up and down. So, it's then about how to dress up for each type. Think your body is a rectangle.

If you are hourglass, the shoulders and the hips inline the two ends of the rectangle, waist nipped in. Pear shapes, hips the bottom of the rectangle shoulder slightly smaller, so more of a triangular shape so it's about bringing the balance back to the shoulders. Straight up and down is the rectangle with no nipping into the waist, so it's really all about creating the waist.

So, for each of the body types, it's important to create the balance, balance on shape and then on colour. So, if you go for a wide leg trouser to balance out, then you need to balance out the shoulders. If you are the pear shape, the most important thing is to balance out the shoulders.

If you are hourglass, it's really about going with your curves and don't be afraid to go with those curves. So, it's nipping in the waist still, still keeping the balance on the shoulders and on the hip where you already have it there. So, whether it's A-line skirt or a pencil shape skirt, it's about going with that shape.

The straight up and down is all about creating their shape, so you want to nip in the waist, you want to add fat break. Even though you feel like you're making yourself little bigger, as long as you nip in the smallest bit, which is generally most women is underneath the bust, and then going something wider. So, for straight up and down, you want go with A-line shirts, shirt dresses are great anything to nip in and going for belts over seam lines and nipping in the waist but its adding the fabrics in, to make yourself to look smaller.

Hourglass figure, pear shape figure, wide leg trousers are great. A-line skirts are great. Shoulders adding a little bit ruching through the shoulders, it's really important.

Straight up and down, you want to add the width and you want to add the width of the bottom, nipping in. Get the shape rights, get the cut rights and then you will be dressed up for your body type. .