The Right Top for Your Body Shape

In order to improve your look and express your personal style and soul, independently of the occasion, event or time of the day, it's vital that you learn how to adapt your clothing sets to your body shape. The choice and combination of different clothing pieces may enhanced or completely trash your look. This choice must consider more than fashion trends but also how this trends may be fitted to your body shape. Women's body shapes can be divided in four categories: apple, pear, hourglass and rectangular.

The apple body shape is characterized by a wider upper torso in comparison with a narrow lower body. Women with apple body shapes have more difficulty to hide some extra height, because all surplus focuses above the waistline. The solution is to choose clothes that will de-emphasize the waist and reduce the large shoulders look: wear v-neck style tops. Wrap tops is another option to improve your waistline by making it appear slimmer. The usage of empire cut tops may help hide those extra pounds, and a good top can make miracles and worth more that ten diets.

The pear-shaped body is characterized by larger hips, thighs, and legs, together with a small upper body. The key to improve your look is to bright the focus to your upper body, and divert the eyes from your lower part of the body. The way to achieve this is to choose colorful textured tops with wide necklines together with dark pants to balance your overall look. An alternative is to choose skirts with an a-line to skim the hips.

A body which is curvy above and below a defined waist is classified has an hourglass one. The best choices to improve the look is to prefer clothing sets that de-emphasize the hips region and brigs the focus to the waist line. To enhance the waistline you can use several clothing pieces that define this area like belted tops or dresses. Another way to enhance your natural body curves is with a tailored blouse, a fitted skirt, or a high-waisted skirt. In terms of color choices the best option is to go with monochromatic colors to balance the hourglass figure. Avoid using any piece that may add bulk to your body shape, choose dresses and tops made with light fabrics.

The rectangular body shape is characterized by an uniform width of the body from the shoulders to hips. This makes any weight gain be evenly distributed. Layered clothing pieces will create a more balanced figure. Choose jeans with a fading thigh area to create the illusion of curvier hips. Jewel encrusted jeans can make behinds look larger. Prefer dresses with prints and details.



2010 Summer Trends: Belted Tops

One of the major trends for 2010 Summer season are Belted Tops. They allow to finish and perfect longer-style tops, moreover, you can use multiple belts to complete and change the look of your top, add tons of options to your wardrobe.

Several designers have presented Summer collections with tops with a slight retro feel. Almost all of these have a fairly simple shape enhanced by belts or belted lines, and can easily be dress up with a pair of jeans or pencil skirt. This Summer season, avoid styles that over-emphasize bust or hips.

This Summer season color trends for women's clothing are: Violet, Aurora, Turquoise, Fusion Coral, Tomato Puree, Tuscany, Amparo Blue, Pink Champagne, Dried Herb and Eucalyptus. These palette ranges from neutral and natural colors to bright colors, so the final choice will be your and you may adapt them almost freely to your taste and/or mood.

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