How To Style An Apple/Round Body Shape ; Flattering Your Body Proportion

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How to know you have the Apple body shape

First things first. What is your body type? The surest way to figure this out is by taking four
body measurements: shoulders, bust, waist, and hips. The relationship among these numbers will reveal the shape of
your frame.

The apple body shape is a variation of the inverted triangle where you also have a thicker, less defined waist. People with round or apple body shapes tend to gain weight in their stomach more than any other body part.

Celebrities with apple or round shapes include Mindy Kaling, Queen Latifah, and Rebel Wilson.

Key points for this styling

1. Emphasize the mid section
2. Redefine your waistline
3. Trick the eye/create a focal point:Draping , ruching ,colour draping ,open neckline and interesting prints
4. Show off your legs

Tops

When choosing the top for this body shape you should be thinking about how to emphasise the waist, that is breaking the tummy and the chest area

Tops to wear often :

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These tops will break up the chest vertically and take away attention from the fuller mid section. You are tricking the eye and redefining your waist by skimming

Tops to avoid

Sleeves

Choose sleeves that will take attention away from the mid-drift and choose sleeves that are going to accentuate the upper body and arms

Sleeves to Avoid

BOTTOMS

Trouser

Don’t add weight to the midsection but gently camouflage it

Jeans/pants to wear often

Pants /Jeans to avoid :

REASON TO AVOID :This pants is going to highlight the torso

Skirts

Camouflage the wide midsection .. preferably a skirt above the knee

Skirts to wear often

Skirts to avoid

Short

You want to balance out the mid section. The goal is to slim out the legs and elongate your figure

Shorts to wear often :

Shorts to avoid

REASON TO AVOID: This is going to make you appear shorter than you are and we don’t want that

Dresses

ByChoose dresses that are going to nicely skin over your mid section without clinging too much to your body . You will want to highlight the torso and create a bottom heavy silhouette

Dresses to wear often :

Dresses to Avoid

Jackets

You will be look for something that will brush past the midsection and help foster the body proportion

Jackets to wear often

Jackets to Avoid

REASON TO AVOID: You will want to avoid a boxy top heavy look

Best styling for the apple body shape