Body shapes: what to wear

Five female and five male body shapes. For each — what balances the figure and what works against it, from the rulebook our stylists wrote.

Women

HourglassAccentuating the waistPearBalancing top and bottomAppleBuilding a vertical lineRectangleAdding structure to the silhouetteInverted triangleSoftening the top, adding to the bottom

Men

TrapezoidNot fighting the natural taperRectangleAdding structure to the silhouetteOvalA vertical line instead of a belt on the bellyInverted triangleSoftening the top, adding to the bottomBottom wider than topBuild up the shoulder line