Comments on: Picking jeans for your body shape: the rectangle or boyish figure

By: Cassie

Cassie — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:53:12 +0000

Thanks for the photo references! Planting a fruit on my figure is never very enlightening.

Sad to say though, I appear to have the Anna Paquin ‘chubby’ era figure. So whilst I am relieved to have classified me as a definite rectangle, I’m also in the ‘chubby’ category. Booo.

Unless you’re a Clinique Chubby Stick or in possession of puppy fat, ‘chubby’ is mean And I am not a mass marketed lip crayon, nor have I recently eaten any puppies.

By: Deeabc

Deeabc — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:20:28 +0000

I’m an inverted/upside down triangle too Beckybk! Big shoulders in my case though. The rest of me is pretty straight up and down!I just try to draw attention to my waist and hips to balance thing out.

By: missmilki

missmilki — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:51:13 +0000

Gigi – I’m just under 5ft tall too, it makes buying jeans a pain. I’d guess my leg is about only about 26″/27″ – I have to take up even the ‘short/petite’ sizes & there just aren’t that many options to start with. Rosemary, maybe you could do a post on jeans for shorter legs? I think I’d be a pear from looking at those photos & an 8-10.

By: Gigi

Gigi — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:03:11 +0000

I am size 6, 25 inch waist. I DO have hips but I am only less than 5 foot tall, meaning there isn’t much top half to show the fact that I have an hourglass, it’s just like someone put a hand on my head and a hand on my feet and pushed me up I have E cup boobs, so if I just looked a little bit curvier (also thanks to my no-ass) I’d be happy out, just 3 inches more height, between waist and hips.
I end up boyish basically.
Rant/

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:37:32 +0000

Sarah, no – it’s about your waist-hip, chest-waist ratio. So you might be a B, but a size 8, which would make you fairly hourglass-y!

SugarAndSpice, check it: http://www.radaronline.com/sites/radaronline.com/files/imagecache/350width/cameron-diaz-breastjob-splashinf.jpg

By: SugarAndSpice

SugarAndSpice — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:21:32 +0000

Cameron diaz had a boob job??

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:44:00 +0000

Does one need a large bust to qualify as an hourglass?

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:58:42 +0000

Beckybk, you sound like an apple to me! Check out my post on apple shapes for help: http://beaut.ie/2012/picking-jeans-for-your-body-type-the-apple-conquer-that-muffin-top/

Rebecca, I call myself chubby so don’t see it as being at all insulting, although I know some people do. I think you can’t please all folks all of the time, and I veer between using “fat”, “chubby”, “chunky” etc!

Caitríona, yours sound like the fairly perfect body type to me! Probably somewhere between rectangle and hourglass

By: Carine

Carine — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:50:54 +0000

This is me, the shape immortalised forever by Trinny and Susanna as ‘the brick’. Have very few pairs of jeans because of my shape but will Definately look into these now. Ta.

By: Donna

Donna — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:31:10 +0000

I am a hourglass.