Not only giving your outfit a statement and personality, prints, patterns, and stripes also can give your body shape a complement and provide a better proportion. The fit and chosen prints can give you a total make-or-break that flatters your frame, emphasizing the features you want to draw attention to and minimizing parts you desire to conceal. Therefore it's considerably important to know what prints and patterns work best for your body, and it will make it easier for you to shop for new clothes.
Rectangle Body Shape
This body shape means that your silhouette is daily straight up and down. For a rectangle body shape, you want to break your silhouette creating curves from the waist up and down. What's advantageous for this body shape is that you're free to experiment with various textures and details. You can try to wear a short, fitted dress, which shows off your slender shape. As for the patterns and print, you can explore animal print as it gives a 3D effect to create lovely curves. Going for thick horizontal stripes in certain areas you want to look curvy is also recommended to bring out that area. Other options you can experiment with to complement your body shape are florals and polka dots.
Pear Body Shape
If your proportion is wide at the bust, you are most likely a pear shape. However, it shouldn't stop you from wearing patterns and prints both for the top and bottom. Try to keep them small for you to balance your wider hips. To balance your proportions, you can give it a go for a brighter, larger-patterned top or a classic horizontal-striped shirt to make your shoulders look broader and pair it with solid dark-wash denim pants or a skirt.
Apple Body Shape
For those of you who have an apple body shape where your bust is proportionally larger than your hips, you are top-heavy. What you want to achieve in your patterned outfit is to make your upper body look longer and slim down your shoulders and waist. To look more proportional, balance your top by wearing brighter-larger patterned bottoms to highlight the hip and combine them with a solid-colored top. You can experiment with your outfit by choosing a horizontal-striped skirt to give a balanced illusion. However, you can go for a tiny print for the top if you feel like it and try going for V-necks to tease a little.
Inverted Triangle Body Shape
To dress up an inverted triangle body, you want to create an illusion of an hourglass shape by volumizing your hips area to make a great balance for your broader top half. You need to avoid horizontal stripes for your top as it will only make your upper body look wider than your bottom. Instead, you need to go for vertical lines with styles like halter necks, V-necks, and scoop necks. As for the waist down, try for horizontal stripes to make your bottom part wider and balanced. Choose bold and eye-catching shoes to draw attention as a cherry on top.
Hourglass Body Shape
Dressing an hourglass-shaped body is very easy as there's not much to do to accentuate the body proportions. Hourglass is considered the perfect body shape, so, if you're one of them, you're very lucky! All you need to do is dress smartly and find out what kind of outfit that will accentuate your body even more, to show off that lovely figure.
