What type of dress suits you according to your shape?

You want to buy a dress, you have the image in your head of that dress you saw for the new season and you go straight for it. You try it on and, even if it's your size, it doesn't fit the way you thought it would, nor do you look favored enough to decide on it. Does it sound familiar to you?

Don't worry, it happens to all of us; we fall in love with a design and the way it suits the model who wears it, but we forget that our body may not have the same proportions and that this is the dress that favors that type of silhouette. But of course you can get it right too. Do you want to know which dress suits you according to your shape? We will tell you about it in this article.

What dress suits you according to your shape?

First of all, observe your forms by looking straight at yourself in the mirror and find out what your type of silhouette is. Pay special attention to the line of the shoulders, the waist and the widest part of your hips; Depending on the proportions of these three widths, you will position yourself in one way or another. If you doubt your objectivity, take a tape measure and measure yourself head-on to compare them with each other.

1. Rectangle

If your shoulders, waist and hips are practically the same measurement, your silhouette will be a rectangle type. The key to harmonizing your shapes will be to differentiate more the measurement of the waist with respect to the hip to give more femininity to your silhouette.

• Neckline: better crossed, draped, round or V-shaped.
• Sleeves: they can be of any type because it will favor you indistinctly.
• Length: preferably, wear it above the knees.

Type of dresses that favor you if your shape is rectangle:

With balloon bottom

As the fabric inflates at the hips, will provide a feeling of greater width hip than waist, just what we are looking for.

With flare on the skirt

Ideal to give the sensation of increasing the hips, we give the base of the dress a flared shape by playing with more fabric to provide it with flight.

With peplum between the waist and hips

The peplum It is that kind of frill that starts from the waistband of the upper part of the dress and goes down simulating the shape of a widening hipto.

Crossed

Only with the gesture of closing the dress crossing and adjusting to the height of the waist, we will cause a greater optical sensation of an hourglass silhouette on the rectangular-shaped body.

2. Triangle

If your hips are noticeably wider than your shoulder line, you will have a triangular type silhouette.

What we will try is to draw the attention of the gaze to the upper part of your body (in the chest and shoulders area) and at the same time hide the hips area.

• Neckline: strapless (strapless), boat neckline or round neckline.
• Sleeves: with volume, mainly in the area near the shoulders like the lantern.
• Length: below the knee.

Type of dresses that favor you if your shape is triangle:

Empire Court Dresses

Those that gather the chest in a rectangular horizontal band, from whose lower part the fabric comes out with a lot of drape, are ideal to hide the hips while at the same time puts the focus of attention on the neckline.

A-shaped dress

Perfect those that are loose at the waist and with the shoulders more marked or with volume.

Dress shirt

Gives structure to the shoulder area at the same time that it does not increase the sensation of width in the hips, but yes, with a belt to tighten the waist.

Babydoll

Feminine and very appropriate to enhance this very feminine shape.

3. Inverted triangle

If the line of your shoulders is visibly wider than that of your hipsyes, your silhouette is the inverted triangle.

For this type of morphology, the question is to reduce the sensation of volume in the chest area and hide the shoulder size, while adding volume to the hips and, if they are pretty, diverting attention to the legs.

• Neckline: V-shaped (visually reduces chest volume), asymmetrical, square or rectangular.
• Sleeves: raglan type and rather narrow, except if the arms are thick; in that case, opt for sleeves slightly wider than the contour of the arm so that they do not mark its thickness.
• Far over the knee.

Type of dresses that favor you if your shape is an inverted triangle:

Straight dress

By falling the fabric keeping the same width constant from the shoulders to the bottom, it would disguise the fact that the hips are narrower. By being hidden, it would pretend to have the same width as the dress as the top, giving a feeling of greater balance.

With balloon bottom

Perfect for those who have narrow hips and want to give their look a more feminine air. Only suitable for legs with slim knees.

With A-shaped bottom

Ideal for visually increasing the hipsWith pleats or a lot of flare, we add width to the base of the dress and, if the legs are your strong point, show them off!

With peplum

Just as we recommended its use for rectangular shaped bodies, the use of peplum It is also a great ally of the inverted triangle silhouettes to give sinuous shape to the waist line towards the hips.

4. Hourglass

If your shoulder line measures the same as the maximum width of your hips, while your waist is noticeably narrower, congratulations! You have the hourglass silhouette the one that is considered the ideal of feminine silhouette.

If you are one of the lucky ones with this type of body shape, you will already know that practically anything favors you. Of course, the point of attention should be the waist. Take advantage of the fact that in your case it is narrow to fit it tight and enhance your feminine silhouette.

• Neckline: V-shaped, asymmetrical, boat type, rectangular... practically any type.
• Sleeves: You can afford to opt for different lengths.
• Length: knee length

Type of dresses that you favor if your shape is an hourglass:

Tube dress

Enhance the natural shape of the hourglass. The absence of horizontal seams will lengthen the silhouette by stylizing the whole, and it will be more elegant if the length reaches the knees.

Babydoll

Despite the air naive that characterizes this type of dress, its conjunction with this body shape that represents the ideal of a woman's body, makes the innocent become sexy.

Cross dress

Perfect example of how to define the waist elegantly and enhance the silhouette with subtlety.

Trapeze dress

The structure of the shoulders will already give sufficient prominence to the upper part of the dress, no matter how simple it may be. Its soft fall widening as it goes down will draw the width of the hips in a natural way. Simple and flattering.

Empire dress

As happened to triangle women, the empire dress will be very flattering. In the case of the hourglass woman it will not be in order to hide her hips, but to create a ideal frame to show off your beautiful silhouette.

5. Oval

If the widest area is your waist, your silhouette is oval.

What we will look for when dressing this silhouette will be divert attention from the abdomen area and direct it to another part (it could be the legs if they are pretty or the neckline), while trying to stylize the body as a whole.

• Neckline: V-shaped or heart-shaped.
• Sleeves: that do not fit the arms.
• Length: In order not to promote the oval shape of the body, ensure that the length of the dress does not exceed the height of the knees.

Type of dresses that favor you if your shape is oval:

Trapeze dress

Its flared shape will optically change the oval feel in the central part of the body, giving the impression of a narrower waist that gradually widens towards the hips. Better to be above the knees and show your legs (if you like them). If possible, it has a striking neckline or some type of decoration that draws attention to that point.

Empire court

If you like the area of ​​your neckline and the line of your shoulders, you can use this dress to give prominence to that part of your body while the fall of its fabric (from just below the chest cut) will hide the area of ​​the abdomen.

Cross Shaping Waist:

If there is a dress that emphasizes the width of the shoulders and hips while narrowing the waist (precisely what we are looking for) that is the wrap dress. Of course, it has to highlight the shoulders with some type of adornment, shape at the beginning of the sleeve or folds of the fabric itself that place the volume at its ends.

And the lower part of her skirt should look to flare or generate flight to inspire the idea of ​​an hourglass silhouette that harmonizes the whole.