Dressing an Hour Glass Body Shape

A person with an hourglass shaped body has the wide hips, wide bust and thin/tiny waist. If you want to know if you have this body type, check out our Determine Your Body Shape article. Feel free to adjust the tips and ideas in this article to suit your specific style and likes. We want you to know that you have an amazing bod---just the way you are *wink wink*.

Celebrities With Hourglass Shapes

Celebrities with this body shape include;

• Sophia Vergara

• Salma Hayek

• Scarlett Johansson

Tips for Dressing

Styling tips include;

1. Waistline - Because you have a desirable small waistline, you should try the below;

a) Belts

b) High Waisted Pants or skirts (especially if you are full figured)

2. Try to draw a horizontal line above your collar bone and below your hips. You can do this by wearing tight or fitted clothes.

3. Break off the hour glass shape by how you dress e.g. wearing loose tops, skater dresses/skirts, cowl blouses, heavy knitted fabric etc.

Styling

For the fitted clothes, you could wear pencil skirts,leggings, stretchy jeans (with about 2% elastine--Spandex being a good brand). Also, in order to get a good fit, consider getting a tailor who can reduce the size in the right areas for you. Just make sure that you give them complete instructions with no room for "ideas" or "fixes" so that they don't end up ruining your outfit. If you are along Ngong Road, we know a pretty good tailor in Kibera who has been doing this for us for years.

If you are looking to break off the shape, consider wearing flared pants to balance out the curves or wearing loose tops and skater skirts.

If you have more ideas on what hourglass shaped people should wear or accessorize, please let us know by commenting below.

I'd like to thank Justine Leconte for her informative videos. Subscribe to her Channel for more of the above.

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