I've been wondering how much people take traditional flattery advice to heart. For instance, do you minimize a large bust? Enhance a small one? Create or define a waist? Hide a tummy? The list goes on, but those were some of the main ones I thought of. There's a host of other, similar advice out there, though, and it basically says that either you should hide what you have and fake what you don't have, or try to look exactly like one tall, thin body type. How much do you listen to and how much do you discard?
I'll start: I do define the heck out if my waist, because it's a feature I like to show off. But I loathe the word "minimize." And whenever someone talks about "balancing" a large bust, it annoys me no end. Balance is what keeps you from falling over. Balance should not, to me, mean pretending I have an average size chest. I don't, nor do I want to, because I like my body as is.