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Me - all body types combined?

Mushu

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Hello Angie and the rest of the fab looking world!
I am new here and with a question...this is me:

http://miamichaela.files.wordp.....nlhasa.jpg (mind the lhasa apso head, my face looked weird at the said photo)

and http://miamichaela.files.wordp.....g_3451.jpg

I have VERY broad shoulders, A size boobs, thin waist and I tend to gain all the fat at my hips & butt. So, am I partially inverted triangle (the shoulders I'm very self-conscious about), partially hourglass (with no boobs) AND a pear (because of the butt fat)???

I'm always lost when reading all the "dress according to your body type" because I just can't find anything fitting to me. So HOW?

Thanks a lot for your help

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16 replies

Latest reply was from Frenchie

rute

Veteran

My God!!! What fat? You don't have any fat, you have a nice slim body with a strong shoulder line! I'm sure you be lovely in tons of clothes!
I would say inverted triangle but I'll leave to final word to the experts!
Welcom to the forum and have fun dressing your fabulous body!

Ele

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You have such a lovely figure, Mushu! (Oh, and welcome to YLF!)

I don't see a hint of pear about you, not with that wonderful shoulder line! At first glance, you look very hourglass-y to me. The definition of hourglass (at least here at YLF) is that your shoulders (NOT your bust, which is a common misconception) balance your hips, with a small waist in between. To me, that's what you have, but with perhaps a slightly stronger shoulder line than some?

So, I think you're either an hourglass with inverted triangle leanings, OR an inverted triangle with hourglass leanings. I'll let Angie be the final judge, though

Mushu

(website)

Hello girls!
No fat, no fat! But an INCLINATION to gain fat at those butt & hip areas. I'm UK size 12, sometimes even 14 depending on the cut and on my butt-fat-stage. Hah.

This forum is fab by the way, I am very happy to be here

Louise

Veteran

Welcome Mushu, i'm rubbish at body shapes but just wanted to say hi x

Angie

(website)

Fashion Stylist

Welcome, Mushu! You are lovely!

I can’t determine your body type from the pictures you’ve posted. I need you in jeans or leggings with a form fitting top - from the front. Think you can try again?

Mushu

(website)

Sure! Will take pics soonish & post them here! Thanks Angie...and thanks Loulou for saying hi

Mushu

(website)

Okay, Angie! I am posting the ugliest picture of me up to date (no make-up, glasses and a bad hairstyle day) BUT it's in jeans and a top and taken from front. I apologize for the bookshelf behind :)))

http://miamichaela.files.wordp.....oring3.jpg

(It's called 'boooooring' because I don't think there can be a MORE boring look. Haha.)

Thanks a lot for your help in advance

Angie

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Fashion Stylist

I *think* you are an hourglass. I need both arms down!!! Sorry!

You look pretty in that picture :0)

athleticlyflat

You look like an hour glass to me. Strong shoulders are a good thing, don't be so hard on yourself. I think you look great!
P.S. I like the glasses

Mushu

(website)

Haha, okay! Both arms down photo soonish I apologize for the trouble!

Mushu

(website)

Here here! http://miamichaela.files.wordp.....oring2.jpg

anne

Veteran

Hourglass!

Angie

(website)

Fashion Stylist

You're a trooper Mushu! Thank you for reposting your picture.

Hmmmm. I’d say you’re an hourglass with pear tendencies. You have a strong shoulder line which is unusual for a pretty pear. The width of your shoulders *just* matches the width of your hips, which is why I'm going with hourglass. How does that sound?

You are pretty :0)

Mushu

(website)

Thank you Angie!
Thanks for leading me out of my confusion...I can now feel better reading all the body type articles
I think if I had bigger boobs I'd be a great hourglass but the nature didn't intend it that way. Sad. But an hourglass with pear tendencies sounds great too!

Qair

Member

Oh sweet, Mushu, we're almost identical in body shape! I'm 5'7", 38-28-40 and always considered myself a pear since I store fat below my waist and have saddlebags. And yet, my shoulders are very broad. After seeing your final photo I took a similar one of myself and even though the cursed saddlebags add a lot of width to my lower hip, my shoulders are the same width. (Even then, my bottom half dominates the upper half in visual mass, so I guess that in YLF terms I'm a secondary pear.)

Having such radical curves, it feels nice that somewhere there is a place where I'm considered an hourglass

Frenchie

My best friend is just like you, except that she has a C cup. Her shoulders are bigger than her hips but she still is a pear and every one can see it : she has wide hips, a big bottom (she is slightly overweight) and chunky legs but her upper body is quite slim.
On the Trinny and Susannah Body Shape Calculator she was a "skittle", I actually think she's an heavy-bottom houglass or a pear with hourglass tendencies but that's pretty.