Match Your Shape
By Bradley Bayou
Original Content | July 14, 2010
Measure Yourself
To dress your body right, you have to know your body. Don't just guess. (Believe me, mirrors can be deceiving!) So, grab a measuring tape and a friend to help you, because it's very difficult to measure some parts of yourself and get it right. The more accurate you are now, the better you'll look later.
Your Shoulders: This is the hardest measurement to do by yourself, so you really should ask someone to help. Place the measuring tape at the tip of one shoulder and wrap it all the way around you like a shawl until it meets back at the same shoulder. The tape should skim the top of your shoulders so closely, it almost slips off. This is the widest circumference of your shoulders.
Your Bust: Stand up straight and wrap the measuring tape around your back and across the fullest part of your breasts, usually the middle of them. Pull the measuring tape as taut as you can without changing the shape of your breasts. If things start to squish, you've gone too far.
Your Waist: Wrap the measuring tape around your torso, at the smallest part of your natural waist. It should wrap flat around your back without buckling and meet just above your belly button.
Your Hips: Hold the measuring tape at one hip, below your hip bone, at the fullest part of your hip. Then, keeping the tape flat, wrap it around the largest part of your butt (no cheating!), your other hip, and bring it back to the meeting point.
Now that you've measured yourself (shoulders, bust, waist and hips), use those numbers to help determine your silhouette shape.
Inverted Triangle
Your shoulders or bust are larger than your hips.
Just to be sure, check the numbers:
Your shoulder or bust measurements are more than 5 percent bigger than your hip measurement. For example, if your shoulders measure 36 inches, your hips will be 34 1/4 inches or smaller.
Rectangle
Your shoulders, bust and hips are around the same size, with no defined waistline.
Just to be sure, check the numbers:
Your shoulder, bust and hip measurements are within 5 percent of each other. Your waist is less than 25 percent smaller than your shoulder or bust measurements. For example, if your shoulders measure 36 inches, your waist will be 27 inches or more.
Triangle
Your hips are wider than your shoulders.
Just to be sure, check the numbers:
Your hip measurement is more than 5 percent bigger than your shoulder or bust measurements. For example, if your shoulders measure 36 inches, your hips are 37 3/4 inches or larger
Hourglass
Your shoulders and hips are around the same size, with a very defined waistline.
Just to be sure, check the numbers:
Your shoulder and hip measurements are within 5 percent of each other.
Your waist is at least 25 percent smaller than your shoulder, hip and bust measurements. For example, if your shoulders and hips measure 36 inches, your waist is 27 inches or smaller.
Now that you know your body shape, find:
Dresses that flatter your figure
Pants that fit perfectly
Tops that look great on your shape
MY THOUGHTS
it'll be nice to have that hourglass figure. but since some of us are not that lucky, being more aware of our body shape can help us choose clothes that would flatter.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
WHAT DO I WEAR TO WORK?
WHAT DO I WEAR TO WORK?
from the article "Do Women Need Grooming Advice from Employers?"
By Sean Silverthorne | February 10, 2011
Women on the executive ladder face impossible choices when it comes to dressing for success. Here’s some conflicting advice I bet many of my female readers have received at one point or another:
Dress conservatively, nothing too tight, plunging, or short. But don’t dress too manly. A little makeup, but not too much. By the way, if you want to advance, stand out from the crowd!
So where is a get-ahead gal to turn to for sensible fashion advice when it comes to work? Sylvia Ann Hewlett, a blogger on gender issues for HBR.org, makes the controversial case for companies to write up fairly detailed do’s and don’ts for up-and-coming employees.
“Since leaders shrink from suggesting that subordinates don flesh-colored underwear, a 43-page handbook on dress, decorum, and grooming is precisely what thousands of would-be professionals need to negotiate treacherous fashion fads,” she writes in her post, Dress for the Job You Wan’t?
Companies should couple sensible dress codes with courses such as executive presence, she suggests.
Sure, many women would be turned off by being told what to wear and how to act — you’ve dressed yourself and held a job for years! But many others — especially younger women at the beginning of their careers — might be grateful for the advice, especially given the fact that women much more than men are judged on appearance.
“Until more up-and-comers — predominantly women — get the constructive feedback they need to succeed, the executive suite will remain the domain of those whose social privilege makes ‘obvious’ what patently isn’t to the majority of the workforce,” Hewlett writes.
Certainly the employer has a right to demand a certain level of professional grooming, but how detailed should that go? It’s a slippery slope for managers — just ask Swiss banker UBS AG. A few weeks ago it rescinded its dress code after being ridiculed around the world for advising employees on everything from proper lunch ingredients (no onions) to underwear color (no red).
How about you? Would you welcome a little grooming advice — maybe even a dress code — from your company?
MY THOUGHTS
most definitely - companies have every right to dictate what we should wear to work. after all, they have an image to protect. but then, companies should also think of what's an in but comfortable. companies should seriously think of what employees would also like to work. this is the best way to get willing cooperation. and that's what makes it exciting. how do you put together an appropriate dress code that can please a hundred, maybe a thousand, different needs and wants.
from the article "Do Women Need Grooming Advice from Employers?"
By Sean Silverthorne | February 10, 2011
Women on the executive ladder face impossible choices when it comes to dressing for success. Here’s some conflicting advice I bet many of my female readers have received at one point or another:
Dress conservatively, nothing too tight, plunging, or short. But don’t dress too manly. A little makeup, but not too much. By the way, if you want to advance, stand out from the crowd!
So where is a get-ahead gal to turn to for sensible fashion advice when it comes to work? Sylvia Ann Hewlett, a blogger on gender issues for HBR.org, makes the controversial case for companies to write up fairly detailed do’s and don’ts for up-and-coming employees.
“Since leaders shrink from suggesting that subordinates don flesh-colored underwear, a 43-page handbook on dress, decorum, and grooming is precisely what thousands of would-be professionals need to negotiate treacherous fashion fads,” she writes in her post, Dress for the Job You Wan’t?
Companies should couple sensible dress codes with courses such as executive presence, she suggests.
Sure, many women would be turned off by being told what to wear and how to act — you’ve dressed yourself and held a job for years! But many others — especially younger women at the beginning of their careers — might be grateful for the advice, especially given the fact that women much more than men are judged on appearance.
“Until more up-and-comers — predominantly women — get the constructive feedback they need to succeed, the executive suite will remain the domain of those whose social privilege makes ‘obvious’ what patently isn’t to the majority of the workforce,” Hewlett writes.
Certainly the employer has a right to demand a certain level of professional grooming, but how detailed should that go? It’s a slippery slope for managers — just ask Swiss banker UBS AG. A few weeks ago it rescinded its dress code after being ridiculed around the world for advising employees on everything from proper lunch ingredients (no onions) to underwear color (no red).
How about you? Would you welcome a little grooming advice — maybe even a dress code — from your company?
MY THOUGHTS
most definitely - companies have every right to dictate what we should wear to work. after all, they have an image to protect. but then, companies should also think of what's an in but comfortable. companies should seriously think of what employees would also like to work. this is the best way to get willing cooperation. and that's what makes it exciting. how do you put together an appropriate dress code that can please a hundred, maybe a thousand, different needs and wants.
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