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You are an Hourglass body shape

Your proportions behave most like the Hourglass shape. This means your shoulders and hips carry a similar outline, with your waist naturally defined in between.

You are an Hourglass body shape

Your proportions behave most like the Hourglass shape. This means your shoulders and hips carry a similar outline, with your waist naturally defined in between.

Understanding Your Shape

“Hourglass shapes are easy to dress.”

That is not particularly helpful when the dress fits your bust and hips but leaves a pocket of fabric at your waist. Or when something technically fits, but somehow makes the shape you know you have disappear completely.

The Hourglass shape is often talked about as though clothes naturally work on it. In reality, many clothes are simply cut straighter than your body.

That difference matters.

Woman with an hourglass shape, shoulders and hips in line with a narrower waist
Woman with an hourglass shape, illustrating the fit problems described alongside

You Might Recognise This

  • Clothes fit through your bust and hips but feel loose through your waist.
  • Buttoned pieces pull in one area and feel oversized in another.
  • Straight dresses can leave you feeling much bigger than you actually are.
  • You have been told to “show off your waist”, but you do not necessarily want every outfit to be fitted.
  • Oversized clothes appeal to you, but you are not sure how to make them feel intentional.

This guide takes you beyond “cinch in your waist”.

You will learn how different cuts follow or change your natural proportions, how to leave the waist relaxed without losing control of the whole outfit, what different rises and finishing points do, how to recognise a genuine fit problem and how fabric, structure and drape change the result.

Sometimes you will want to show your shape. Sometimes you will not.

The useful part is knowing how to create either result deliberately.

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.

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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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Woman with an hourglass shape, illustrating the styling covered inside the guide
Woman with an hourglass shape, illustrating the styling covered inside the 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.

Get my Body Shape Guide