Product Description

WHICH BODY SHAPE ARE YOU? A Skittle, Goblet, Hourglass, Cornet, Cello, Apple, Column, Bell, Vase, Brick, Lollipop or a Pear.... Trinny & Susannah have identified 12 classic women's body shapes. In each case, it is proportion, not size, that matters. So whether you are a skinny, average or larger Skittle, Cello, Apple or Pear, the same principles of dressing will apply. Using real-life women, they analyse in depth each shape and show how to choose the clothes that fit and flatter it. They show the most common dressing mistakes and the three best looks. They select the 10 key garments to make up a capsule wardrobe, and show how these basics can be built upon to vary the look. And they show how to make the most of what you already have: what you can do with an ill-fitting or expensive mistake to bring it back to life. It includes Trinny & Susannah's fabulous 22 city directory of shops, outlets and services and other must-have addresses across the UK.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20477 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-18
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

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"The boob-grabbing style gurus are back with another essential guide on looking good" (OK! )

"Giving genuinely useful, non-nonsense advice, it's a brilliant starting point for anyone confused about how to best flatter their figure" (HEAT )

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Customer Reviews

The best body shape yet!
I've bought a few books about dressing for your body shape but this one is definitely the best one. Their advice is spot on and definitely changed the way I view my body. Most body shape books break down body types to about 6 at best but this book goes further with not only a lot more body shapes and but also describes traits like leg proportion, neck length and bottom size.

It has changed the way I shop. I now walk straight passed all the gorgeous but wrong for me clothes - no matter how fab! I look for shape first, fabric and colour next. My "what was I thinking" shopping mistakes have disappeared and I'm now feeling a lot better about my body. Not bad for one book!

Very informative book and great fun!
I have been a fan of T&S for many years - I like their advice which I feel is down to earth and applicable to the majority of woman. This book takes their advice from previous books and distills it into 12 body types. Whilst it is true that once you find out your type you don't need the rest of the book, I still found it great fun and very informative. For example, the book has been passed round my friends and office colleagues and all of them have, fairly easily, identified their body type. It is also useful reading about the other types as there are different hints that are also applicable to your own. They finish each chapter with celebrity pictures of each type showing both a good outfit and a bad one - this I found instructive and interesting as they analyse exactly why it is good and bad for that type. The wardrobe suggestions for my type (hourglass)were also spot on - having read some of their advice in the past I have a much better idea of what suits me. The only trouble is that I now need to go out and buy a whole new wardrobe!

Mix and Match for Best Results
By expanding the four classic body shapes into 12, Trinny and Susannah have tried to make it easier for women to find their type. Ironically, this has made it more difficult, because their new shapes are so specific that most women won't fit one exactly. (Of my friends who have read this book, only one knew her type immediately, because she is a classic hourglass.) T&S do acknowledge in their introduction that there may be crossover, but nowhere else in the book.

For example, I am most definitely a Pear, but my legs are one of my best features and my calves are not chunky. The book suggests all kinds of ways for pears to hide their legs, assuming they're a cosmetic detriment for all of us. Basically, Trinny has turned the Pear shape into Trinny shape, without acknowledging that she is an extreme example of that type, with a VERY long torso, VERY short legs, and a VERY flat chest. (Yet she is beautiful.)

I think it might have been better to have fewer shapes with broader descriptions, and then give specific advice based on certain features possible within the type. ("If you are an Hourglass with a large frame....etc.") Measurements and tips for finding your type would have been helpful too for readers who can't tell if their waist is long or short, for example, in proportion with the rest of them.

You may find that you have been unconsciously choosing some of their looks for your body type without realizing why you like them. I never understood why I preferred chunky heels over stilettos on myself, but it's because the thicker heels help balance my hips. Susannah and Trinny explain these things in their characteristic, abrasive tone and do not hold back. In each chapter they tell you authoritatively what is wrong with your body and then lay down the law. It can make you flinch.

The celebrity examples for each type are really nice, because it not only makes you see how each shape can be beautiful, but how shape is about proportion and not how much you weigh. Even in their "bad" examples, though, most of the stars look good. It's hard to swallow that Shakira, who has one of the world's most celebrated bodies, should never reveal her legs above the knee. Beauty, confidence, and physical fitness hide a lot of body-shape "sins."

All that said, the advice in this book is extremely useful when used judiciously. It's a great guideline for choosing new clothes and understanding out why some styles will just never work for you. Along with their guide to "what colors go with what" from WYWCCYL, this is my favorite T&S reference.