Product Description

WHICH BODY SHAPE ARE YOU? Skittle, Goblet, Hourglass, Cornet, Cello, Apple, Column, Bell, Vase, Brick, Lollipop or Pear . . . Forget your size. Discover your shape. Transform yourself. The key to looking fabulous lies in your shape, not your size. Join style gurus Trinny & Susannah as they reveal their revolutionary new concept in dressing for your body shape. Discover the 12 definitive female forms and the principles of dressing for each one. So whether you're a pear, cello, vase or lollipop, Trinny & Susannah will help you understand your proportions and show you the key garments and best looks to fit and flatter your figure, leaving you feeling confident and looking amazing. Discover the most common dressing mistakes and your three best looks. Trinny & Susannah select 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. Includes a fabulous 22 city directory of shops, outlets and services and other must-have addresses across the UK.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13759 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Review
"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 What's Hot: This latest guide is about dressing to suit your shape. THE SUN

Review
"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 )

What's Hot: This latest guide is about dressing to suit your shape. (THE SUN )

THE SUN
What's Hot: This latest guide is about dressing to suit your shape.

Customer Reviews

Thanks again, ladies!
I've got Trinny and Susannah's other books and for a time searched for the features belonging to a typical pear shape, only to find from looking in this book that I'm closer to a skittle. Their advice has prompted me to look more carefully at whether clothes and shoes really suit me rather than whether they suit my wallet so thank you once again ladies.

Only for the complete novice
If you already know what shape you are, avoid this book and if you haven't a clue, this book may just confuse you!

Trinny and Susannah's The Body Shape Bible really only has four different body shapes in it, there are about 5 hourglass variations, 4 of them pears and the rest of them make up the apples, bricks and inverted triangles. Their celebrity examples are dubious at best, Sandra Bullock and Katie Holmes pears? I don't think so. A couple of unflattering back side photographs doesn't make you a pear!

If you know your shape, this book may help you a little. As an hourglass (and no, being plus sized doesn't make me a "Cello" thanks very much), this book didn't teach me anything I didn't already know. In fact I thought some of the advice in here was just plain dodgy. Cropped jackets? Are you mad? Nothing fattens or shortens an hourglass more than a cropped jacket. Now I'll admit they do recommend fitted cropped jackets, but I'll tell you something, I've never found one!

Lastly, unless you actually live in the UK, or are planning a trip there, the shopping section is a complete waste of time.

Most of this information is available in one form or another all over the internet, and a great deal of other stuff on the T&S website. So don't bother with this book, Google is your best friend, NOT this book. I do highly recommend What You Wear Can Change Your Life, however. Buy that instead!

Really Helpful Starting Point
I totally get that not everyone will like Trinny & Susannah, but I think they really know what they're talking about. Unless you fit one of the shapes absolutely, you will probably need to read the shapes you might be, try on the clothes for each shape and review how you look dressed as they recommend for each shape. It's not a quick thing, but once you have clear in your head which shape you are, you then start to understand why clothes you have always liked have never fitted.