Pear body shape

Your proportions behave most like the Pear shape. This means your hips carry more of your outline than your shoulders or waist.

Pear body shape

Your proportions behave most like the Pear shape. This means your hips carry more of your outline than your shoulders or waist.

Understanding Your Natural Balance

If trousers fit your hips but leave a gap at your waist, your body is not the problem. The trousers are giving you useful information.

That is the difference this guide will teach you to see.

If you have a Pear shape, you may regularly need one size on top and another on the bottom. Dresses can fit perfectly through your upper body but pull across your hips. Jeans can be an absolute lottery.

And traditional Pear shape advice usually amounts to making the lower half look smaller.

I think you deserve considerably better advice than that.

The Pear body shape, with fuller hips balanced against a narrower shoulder line and a defined waist

Understanding Your Natural Balance

If trousers fit your hips but leave a gap at your waist, your body is not the problem. The trousers are giving you useful information.

That is the difference this guide will teach you to see.

And traditional Pear shape advice usually amounts to making the lower half look smaller.

I think you deserve considerably better advice than that.

Outfit styled for a Pear shape, showing where the top and the trousers divide at the waist and hip

You Might Recognise This

Trousers fit your hips but gape at the waist.
A dress fits perfectly on top but feels completely different from the waist down.
You automatically reach for dark bottoms because you have been told they are more suitable for your shape.
You are never quite sure where jackets or tops should finish.
You like fuller trousers or skirts but worry they will make your hips look wider.

This guide will help you understand what is actually happening.

You will learn why different trouser cuts behave differently on a fuller hip, what a higher rise actually changes, how jacket and top length affect your proportions, how to use your naturally defined waist when you want to, and how colour, print, structure and volume move the focus around an outfit.

You do not need to disguise your hips. You need clothes that have actually allowed for them.

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 Pear 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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Styled look from the Pear body shape guide