Do you love jeans and are you wearing the ones that best suit your body shape?
I'm sheila and this is chic and confident a channel for women over 50 who want to dress
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notified every Tuesday when i upload a new video. Most of us wear jeans and some of us love jeans
but others just can't see me get that fit right. So today I'm going to show you how to wear jeans
to suit your body shape. The first thing you'll want to consider is your body shape.
We are all shaped differently, we're shaped differently horizontally and
vertically. Here are five body shapes that I'm going to talk about in relation to jeans. The
first one is a triangle body shape. Generally the triangle body shape has narrow shoulders,
a small bust, a small waist and larger hips and usually larger thighs. This
person can be five foot two, or they can be five foot ten, height doesn't matter,
it's the body shape that matters. The second one is inverted triangle body shape, this person has
wide shoulders a large bust a less- defined waist, narrow hips and a flat derriere and slim legs.
The next one is the oval body shape, this person has a large bust, a large tummy and somewhat large
hips. The fourth one is a rectangle shape, this person doesn't have any curves at all so their
shoulders their hips and their waist are kind of all the same and they're usually thin. The last
one is the hourglass shape, this person has a large bust, a small defined waistline and
curved hips. Even though you might not fall directly into one of those body shapes,
you will come really close to it. The next thing we want to consider is vertical measurements. We
could have two women who are exactly the same height, same weight but their measurements are
different vertically, so that means when it comes to jeans. If your waist is short or if
your waist is long the type of jeans is going to be different for you so it's important to know
where your length is. The goal here is balance. In order to create a really nice look you need
to have balance, so if you choose the right jeans for your body shape you will create that balance.
The thing I love about clothes is their ability to create illusions, so when you know how to use
clothes in conjunction with your body shape you can create a visual - any visual that you want.
Today I'm going to show you a little bit about how you can do that with jeans, so first let's talk
about the rise of jeans. They can be a low rise, medium rise, or high rise and as I said before,
depending on the length of your waist certain jeans will look better on you than others. So
if you have a short waist you'll want to create more length and that means you'll want to wear
jeans that are lower. So if you wear high-waisted jeans and you have a short waist your waist is
going to look much shorter. You might be thinking how do I know if I have a short waist? One way to
do this is look in a full-length mirror, create an imaginary line where your legs meet your hips
and then notice if your upper half or lower half is longer. If you have long legs you probably have
a shorter waist, if you have short legs you probably have a longer, waist. This is just a
quick way to do this and I do have a more precise measurement system that I use with my clients so
if this is something you're interested in you can always go down in the description box grab
my email and let me know that you want to find out more about your vertical measurements. So now
let's talk about the shape of the jean leg. You can get wide leg, you can get boot cut, you can
get skinny leg, you can get straight leg, so which one is best for you? Skinny leg jeans accentuate
your leg shape so if your legs are small they will make them look smaller, if they're large they will
make them look larger. Based on body shapes the skinny leg looks best on hourglass body shapes,
rectangle body shapes and the triangle body shape. Wide leg jeans look better on inverted triangle
body shape and on rectangle body shape. The best leg shape the one that suits most body shapes
is the boot cut. The other thing about a boot cut is it's classic - it's always in style.
So now let's talk about pockets and their placement. If you have a small or a flat derriere
and you want it to look larger choose pockets that have light stitching on them to create a
larger look and if you have a larger derriere and you want it to look smaller you can choose pockets
without noticeable stitching. Let's look at the jeans from the back and look at the pockets.
Pockets are the focal point, so depending on the size of the pockets, how much they stand out,
and where you put them or where they're placed, that will make a difference on how your butt
looks. If you have small pockets that are closer together and higher up it will lift your butt,
if you have larger pockets or any pocket that is low it brings the eye down and your
derriere - butt - will look like it's droopy and we don't want that. So in order to bring it up,
bring the pockets up, use smaller pockets closer together and I would suggest before you buy your
jeans take a look from the back to see if it's the look you want. And the last thing is the colour of
the denim. You can get dark wash, lighter wash, and then really light. Darker wash jeans are more
classy and they are more slimming and in my opinion they're easier to mix and match. It's
a personal preference what colour wash you choose and maybe you could choose all of them, but just
take into consideration what look you want and if you want to appear larger, or if you want to
appear slimmer, then you can choose your wash more wisely. something else you want to be aware of is
the tightness of the jeans because most jeans have stretch it's easy to go smaller and have tighter
jeans but sometimes that little bit smaller creates a bump and if you just went a lot to a
larger size you wouldn't have it. If you'd like to know more about how to dress for your body shape
you can download my guide and I will put the link for that down in the description box.
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