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Rectangle body shape

Your proportions behave most like the Rectangle shape. This means your shoulders, waist, and hips create a straighter outline without a lot of natural definition at the waist.

Rectangle body shape

Your proportions behave most like the Rectangle shape. This means your shoulders, waist, and hips create a straighter outline without a lot of natural definition at the waist.

Working With Your Rectangle Shape

“Rectangle shapes can wear anything.”

It sounds helpful until you are standing in front of the mirror wearing something that fits perfectly and still wondering why the outfit feels like it is missing something.

If your shoulders, waist and hips sit in a relatively straight line, clothes can follow that natural column or they can create completely different proportions.

Neither is better.

The real advantage comes from knowing how to choose.

The Rectangle body shape, with shoulders, waist and hips falling in a straight line
The Rectangle body shape, with shoulders, waist and hips falling in a straight line

Working With Your Rectangle Shape

“Rectangle shapes can wear anything.”

It sounds helpful until you are standing in front of the mirror wearing something that fits perfectly and still wondering why the outfit feels like it is missing something.

If your shoulders, waist and hips sit in a relatively straight line, clothes can follow that natural column or they can create completely different proportions.

Neither is better.

The real advantage comes from knowing how to choose.

Body shape reference images showing how the Rectangle outline compares with the other body shapes

You Might Recognise This

  • An outfit fits, but sometimes feels a little shapeless.
  • Belts can create definition, but you do not always want a belt around your middle.
  • You are not sure whether you should be trying to create curves in every outfit.
  • Oversized pieces can go from relaxed to overwhelming very quickly.
  • You see an outfit you love on somebody else but cannot work out why your version looks completely different.

This guide will help you spot the details that create those differences.

You will learn how clothing can create shape through the waist, shoulders or lower half, how finishing points change your proportions, what different trouser shapes actually do, how to use volume deliberately and how to keep your natural straighter silhouette when that is the look you want.

Your Rectangle shape does not need correcting.

It actually gives you enormous flexibility once you understand how to use it.

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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Preview of the Rectangle body shape guide, showing pages from inside the download
Preview of the Rectangle body shape guide, showing pages from inside the download

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