Figure Analysis Kit
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For Female Clients:

Figure Magic Wardrobe Consulting Kit

 

And For Male Clients: From Head To Soul Men

This step by step kit gives you everything you need to perform a Figure Analysis on both male and female clients. No previous training is needed! Professional report pages are provided so you can give your client a complete analysis report.

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Personal Style: Body Shapes For Women

Figure Types for Women

Hourglass

hourglass figure shape

Your shoulders and hips are balanced and you can see an indentation at the waistline.

To look your BEST:

  • Wear soft unstructured clothes
  • Wear wrap dresses, shirtdresses with a full skirt, skirts with a flared hem and pants with tapered or straight legs, with gathered or pleated waists.
  • Belt should be of like color to the dress and of medium width.

Inverted Triangle

inverted triangle figure shape

Your shoulders are wider than your hips and/or you may have a full bust.

To look your BEST:

  • Wear dark colors on top and light colors on the bottom. (Darker colors minimize size).
  • Wear raglan sleeves and V-necked garments to elongate upper body.
  • Wear loose clothing that falls from your shoulders (cardigan sweaters, blazon type blouses, shawl collar jackets).
  • Wear soft gathered skirts, flared hem shirtdresses, and dropped waist dresses.
  • Wear slim sleeved blouses, without horizontal lines, ruffles or patch pockets.

Rectangular

Rectangle Figure Shape

Your hips and shoulders are blanaced and there is very little or no indentation at the waist.

To look your BEST:

  • Wear sculptured jackets with defined shoulders.
  • Wear small printed wrap dresses with a small belt of the same color.
  • Wear two-piece blazon or drop-waited dresses and flared bias cut skirts.
  • Wear long, straight cardigan sweaters, long pointed bottom vests and long sweaters with vertical detailing. (Vertical lines elongate your figure).

Triangular

Triangle Figure Shape

Your shoulders are narrower than your hips and/or you have a small bust.

To look your BEST:

  • Wear tops with epaulets, pleats, ruffles, patch pockets, or horizontal detailing.
  • Wear light colors on top and darker colors on bottom.
  • Wear straight jackets with shoulder pads that fall above or below the widest part of the hip
  • Wear simple straight/tapered skirts without gathers, pleats or bulky pocket detailing.

 

Three Shapes, Three Lengths:

NORMAL OR AVERAGE FIGURE - with a difference in measurement between waist and hip of about 10 inches.

  • HIP HEAVY TYPES - with a difference up to about 15 inches.
  • TOP HEAVY TYPES - with a difference down to about 6 inches.

There are definite characteristics showing the differences between each of these three basic types. These characteristics have certain equally noticeable tendencies, for instance–

Where the figure is a hip heavy type and the difference between the waist and hip measurement is anything between 12 in. and 15 in., the thighs as well as the buttocks will be heavy and fleshy, and to accommodate and control these, as well as the prominent back curve, the customer will need a long, strong garment. Such a figure type shows also marked thigh-spread when sitting, hence the garment chosen must provide for this in the design of the skirt.

The normal figure type where the difference between the waist and hip is about 10 in. will often vary in one of the two directions–towards the hip heavy or towards the top heavy type. Accordingly the waist to hip difference, while truly being about 10 in., may in fact be as little as 9 in. or as much as 11 in. Where it is as little as 9 in., this normal figure will be the one that tends to acquire extra fat around the diaphragm, to have a full, rather sagging bust and a flat buttock line with the minimum of thigh spread when sitting. When the difference is 11 in. between waist and hip, the curve at the waist is more marked, the bust usually firmer and rounder and the thigh spread greater when sitting. The difference between waist and hip, and between bust and hip, is the fitter's guide to the type of average figure she has to fit.

A good way to define the two average figures is as follows:

Difference between bust and hip Difference between waist and hip
Curved average 2 - 3 in. 10 - 11 in.
Straight full average About 1 in, or identical Less than 10 in.