Dressing for Your Body Shape with Care and Confidence

This read is a true gem!

As someone who is unlearning toxic things around my body, it was so helpful in helping me embrace my body a lot more. I am an inverted triangle shape and was always taught that I needed more hips and a coke bottle shape.

My biggest takeaways were: Focus on the shape your clothes create, not the body underneath them. This helped me to feel better about my own body shape and to embrace it more when styling myself verses trying to alter my body shape.

My second takeaway was the visual style guide that shows how to combine and/or stack style shapes for more style options. After reading this book I have a better understanding of how to embrace my natural body shape and how to play around with style shapes for maximum benefit and I understand that it’s ok to break the rules with style as long as it works for me.

– Yakol Price

This book is like nothing I’ve ever seen.

I’ve struggled with my body shape all my life—not because it’s “bad”, but because it’s unusual. That difference has always felt isolating, leaving me overwhelmed by advice about apples, triangles, hemlines, waistlines – none of which ever really worked. The result? I’ve dressed fine, but boring. Safe. I look like a mom. A reasonably attractive mom if I put in a bit of effort.

Holly’s book cleaned up the whole mess for me. She offers a fresh perspective that makes me see shape in a whole new way. I’ve stopped blaming and shaming myself. For the first time, I feel empowered. I feel a little excited. Clothes might actually be fun again. Holly’s way of explaining things is transformative—I wish I could take her shopping with me or have her dress me every morning. Since I can’t, this book is the next best thing.

Thank you, Holly, for opening a door I thought was forever closed to me.

– Naomi Dunford