Apple, pear; what does it all mean besides being delicious fruits?

Discovering your body type will make shopping for clothing much easier. You’ll be able to buy clothes in a style that fits right for your body shape and accentuates the positive; instead of being a slave to fashion and purchasing trendy clothes that look better on the rack than they do on your body.

There are four basic body types: Hourglass, Pear/Spoon, Straight/Ruler and Apple/Cone. Sometimes looking in the mirror to figure out your shape is just not enough. You might think you’re a pear when in reality you’re an hourglass.

Hourglass

As the name implies the hourglass figure is the one shaped just like an hourglass. The chest is larger than the waist and the waist is smaller then the hips.

You are an hourglass shape if there is at least 6” between the measurement of your chest and waist and there is at least 6” between your waist and hips.

Pear/Spoons

If you look at Pear you can see that it starts off thin on top and rounds out in the bottom. The pear shape tends to carry most of their weight in the lower half of their body. Most pears the measurement of your chest and waist are similar. The difference between the measurement of your hips and chest is a big difference. For instance: 34-30-42.

Straight/Ruler

This body shape as the name implies is straight as a ruler. The measurements of your chest waist and hips are all similar.

Apple/Cones

The apple/cone shape tends to have broader shoulders with no definitive waist as the measurement of the waist is similar to the chest measurement. The hip and thighs are smaller than the upper half of the body.

Regardless of whether you are overweight, underweight or just the right weight, knowing your body shape can help you purchase clothes that will give curves where there are none and diminish the curves that we’d like to conceal. This is the first step so that you never have to feel like you have a closet full of clothes but nothing to wear.