Description

If style advice has ever left you halfway there, there is a specific reason: it was not bad advice, it solved half of your proportion. Almost every guide is written for shapes with a single imbalance.

Yours has two narrow areas — the shoulder and the hip — with the wide point in between. That means every decision gets made twice, once above and once below, and applying only one half leaves the job unfinished. It is the only one of the six shapes that works this way, and understanding it changes the result completely.

With two details specific to you: above there is a ceiling on volume worth respecting, and below there is none. And pockets and pleats, which other shapes avoid, work in your favor here.

What is inside

The four levers — volume, line, proportion and echo. The mechanism behind why a garment works, so you can decide on your own in front of anything this guide does not cover.
Ten applications across garments, fabrics, color and accessories, each with examples and concrete signs to tell whether you got it right.
Which shapes get confused with yours, and the exact test to tell them apart.
Five real situations for when the theory meets your actual life: work uniforms, summer, and the pieces you love that do not follow the rules.
A one-page cheat sheet to check before you leave the house, with nothing to re-read.

23 pages, PDF, instant download.