Body Types
Curvy/Hourglass:
- Ample Tummy
choose styles with:
- Mid to slightly high-rises. A lower rise can bisect the stomach.
- Zipper flys rather than button flys.
choose styles with:
- Pleating
- Hips
choose styles with:
- A bootcut or slight flare to balance out your figure.
- A contoured waistband or mid-rise.
- A flat-front seen in many trousers in a darker rinse.
- Slit pockets.
choose styles with:
- Front patch pockets or cargo styles and look for jeans with slit pockets.
- Light stitching or detail on and around the hip.
- Pegged, stovepipe, or tapered legs. They will make your hips look bigger.
- Low-rises or high rises.
- Heavy Thighs
choose styles with:
- Leg openings such as bootcuts and trousers that skim but doesn’t hug your leg.
choose styles with:
- Pegged, stovepipe, tapered, or even flared legs. They will make your thighs look bigger.
- Rear
choose styles with:
- Pockets that are proportionally sized and centered.
- Darker rinses.
- A bootcut or slight flare to balance out your figure
- Contoured waistbands. These have a lower rise in the front, and a higher rise in the back.
- Slimming effects such as trousers.
- Stretch (2% lycra). Thse will hug your curves without feeling too tight.
choose styles with:
- Any extra details/embellishments on the back pockets. Avoid back flap pockets.
Slender
choose styles with:
- Contoured waistbands to give illusion of more curves.
- Stitching and detail on hips, thighs. and rear.
- Front patch pockets and cargo styles.
- Low-rises and some stretch.
- Whiskering and fading on hips, thighs, and rear.
- Back flap pockets
choose styles with:
- A lot of stretch that may emphasize a straight silhouette.
- A leg that is too loose.
Plus-sized
choose styles with:
- A bootcut or slight flare for balance.
- A bit of stretch for comfort.
- Darker rinses.
- Back pockets that are large and closely-spaced.
- Back pockets that are sewn flat.
- Higher waistlines.
choose styles with:
- Lighter denim rinses.
- Whiskering or fading.
- Without rear pockets.
- Too much stretch.
Tall
choose styles with:
- Straighter leg styles that will show off long legs
- Lower rises if you wish to emphasize a flat tummy and slim hips as well.
choose styles with:
- Too low of a rise if your proportions present a longer torso rather than longer legs.
Petite
choose styles with:
- Slimmer fits in darker rinses to make your legs look longer and leaner.
- Trouser legs.
- Pinstripes or vertical seams.
- A slightly longer inseam so that the hem almost touches the floor
choose styles with:
- Cropped legs.
- Flare legs - they can make you look stout.
