Apple body shape

Your proportions behave most like the Apple shape. This means you tend to carry more of your outline around your midsection, with slimmer arms and legs often standing out as key features.

Apple body shape

Your proportions behave most like the Apple shape. This means you tend to carry more of your outline around your midsection, with slimmer arms and legs often standing out as key features.

Dressing for the Apple Body Shape

Why Fit Matters

Knowing you are an Apple shape is one thing. Knowing why your jeans fit beautifully through the legs but fight with you at the waistband is far more useful.

If tops seem to fit everywhere except through your middle, dresses catch in one particular place, or going up a size simply leaves you feeling swamped, this guide will help you understand why.

Because very often, it is not a size problem. It is where the garment has been cut, where the waist sits, where the fabric starts to fall and where the outfit creates its strongest lines.

Once you understand those things, getting dressed becomes a lot less frustrating.

Woman with an Apple body shape standing in fitted clothing, fuller through the midsection with slimmer arms and legs

Woman with an Apple body shape wearing an everyday outfit of jeans and a top

You Might Recognise This

Jeans fit your legs but the waistband feels uncomfortable.
A top looks lovely from the front, but catches or pulls through your middle.
You choose something looser for comfort, only to feel that the extra fabric makes the entire outfit look bigger.
You have been told to hide your tummy, wear long tops or avoid belts, but nobody has really explained why.
And some days you simply want to get dressed without making your middle the deciding factor in every outfit.

This guide will show you how to look at the clothes instead.

You will learn what different rises do, where tops and jackets should finish depending on the result you want, how fabric can skim rather than grip, how to use waist placement without having to define your waist, and how to move the focus around an outfit.

The aim is not to hide your Apple shape. It is to make clothes easier to understand.

This Is Not Another List of Body Shape Rules

You have probably already seen the lists.
Wear this neckline.
Avoid that trouser.
This dress is “good” for your shape.
That one is not.

The problem is that those rules are not much use when you are standing in a fitting room with an outfit that looks wrong and you have absolutely no idea why.

I want you to understand enough to work that out for yourself.

Get the Apple Shape Guide

Inside Your Guide

You will see real examples of your shape and learn what to notice rather than what to copy.

You will understand five of the biggest things changing how an outfit looks: placement, where the outfit divides, waist awareness, visual presence and the difference between fit and focus.

You will get practical outfit formulas for everything from everyday clothes and workwear to nights out and occasions.

There is dedicated guidance on denim, useful places to shop, pieces worth looking for and, more importantly, what those pieces actually do.

I have also answered the questions I hear repeatedly from women with your shape.

And at the end, I will help you look at your own wardrobe and find the evidence of what is already working.

What I Really Want You to Take From This Guide

You will still occasionally try on a terrible pair of trousers. I cannot perform miracles.

But instead of looking in the mirror and deciding there is something wrong with your body, I want you to be able to say:

The rise is wrong.
That jacket finishes in the wrong place for the result I want.
I need more room here, not a bigger size everywhere.
That fabric is gripping rather than falling.
I want to move the focus somewhere else.

That is when clothes become much easier. You stop following rules and start making better decisions.

Because knowing your body shape is useful. Knowing what to do with that information is what changes things.

€19.99, once. Instant digital download, saved to your library. If you want to be sure the quiz got your shape right, reply to your quiz result email with a photo, standing straight on in fitted clothing, and I will confirm it myself.

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