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SILHOUETTE GUIDE
Good morning! Between the end of my "university" career and the beginning of my professional career I am presented with new challenges and projects to carry out and as far as possible I try to show you what I am doing. Today I bring you a styling exercise and basic tips to always look good.
According to standards: shoulders should measure 2'5 cm more than the hip; the chest should not be more than 7 cm below the armpit; the waist should be right in the center between the armpits and pubis and be 10 cm smaller than the chest and the hip 2 cm more.
The arm length is correct if the elbow falls just at waist-high, the wrist at the pubis-high and the legs if they are the half of our height.
But this is only the theory, in practice we must consider the whole environment, which may seem a defect, within the outfit can be compensated, so the first thing to do is look for the real problem. My trick is to visualize the silhouette of the body to be dressed in geometric shapes, with this and thinking about the "perfect" silhouette is that one called "hourglass", meaning chest and shoulders in balance with slightly thinner hips and waist , we can work.
Keep in mind that finding the perfect look for real silhouettes is a complicated and ambiguous task since everything depends on the tastes of each one, what to me may seem a defect for another one may not matter or be an advantage. What It is necessary to consider is that the styling serves to look for the balance of spaces of the body through the clothes and with that to see us technically well.
To start I will name some simple things that will help us a lot to not make mistakes when dressing, think that all this really serves for more formal moments. In our day to day possibly we do not stop to look so much the clothes that can fit us so meticulously well and we dedicate ourselves to dress with comfortable and those that we like.
These things are:
- We should never attract attention to areas that generate conflicts with ornaments or with the coincidence of cuts or lengths in them.
-The long ends stylize us, the intermediate ones can generate disproportions.
- Horizontal cuts or lines, widen and give volume; vertical lines lengthen and stylize.
-The tight garments make the defects and the advantages more visible, the wide ones hide, but the excessively wide, fatten. The tailored garments are the most successful because they stylize.
-The long sleeves give problems to the long arms, it is advisable to wear cuffs, and accessories with short sleeves. The 3/4 sleeves favor short arms.
-Very high inseam shortens the waist and very low inseam produces the opposite effect.
- Garments without waist, lengthen the waist.
-Short legs should avoid turning-on the bottom and long jackets.
-It is clear that the thinnest ones can recharge more their outfit to generate weight and the most voluminous should avoid it.
-Also a tall person can use more styles than a short one.
After telling you these generalizations I am going to talk about more concrete things. You have heard sometimes about the types of silhouette of both, garments and bodies: silhouette in X, Y, O, H, A or the hourglass, cup, apple, cylindrical or column, silhouette of bell or pear, everything basically refers to the same. All the women bodies can fit into one of them. As we have said before, the silhouette of hourglass or silhouette in X would be the ideal silhouette, which must be achieved and in this case everything would be worth, taking care not create disproportions.
Then we have:
-The cup or 'Y silhouette', which has more prominent chest and shoulders than the waist and hip, so we should give volume in this area with pockets, ornaments, horizontal cuts, puffed skirts, voluminous, wide or also tubed; jackets that are narrowing from shoulders to waist and straight or wide pants depending on the height.
-The apple or 'O silhouette', is the most plump, which has a lot of volume in chest, waist and hip. Undoubtedly the vertical line must predominate, match outwards and upwards the shoulders with shoulder pads and seams that surpass the bone, or voluminous sleeves in this part, and narrow waist with narrow belts or cut at waist.
We should not be confused with the column, cylindrical or 'H silhouette', which does not have a big difference between shoulders, chest, waist and hip and in which the biggest problem is the waist which must be visually narrowed with a belt or a cut. In addition, you have to give volume to the chest with horizontal cuts on it, under it, ruffles, pronounced necklines and give volume or mark the hip with tube or floaty skirts, straight pants with pockets.
-The pear, bell or 'A silhouette', whose problems are very wide waist and hips compared to chest and shoulders. To correct it we have to refine the waist and increase the visual space of the upper part as we have said in the previous ones.
And finally, the 'bottle silhouette' in which shoulders, chest and waist are much narrower than the hips and legs. We will correct it increasing shoulders and chest with shallow and horizontal necklines, for example. Hiding hip with overlapping outer garments; on legs avoiding excessive shorts and wearing straight pants. It is recommended that the jacket does not end in the conflict zone and that it is slightly tailored.
All this said, I hope you like this post, and that above all it is super useful. Surely you feel identified with one of the bodies that we have just named or it may be that you do not see yourselves reflected clearly, but you can see some woman that you know in those. So I say goodbye until next Saturday, do not forget that you can find us all the week at your disposal on Instagram!
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