Dressing Your Body Shape : Menswear Advice & Tips

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m Janie Yasko-Mangum with Successful Style and Image. Today on Expert Village we are going to discover your body shape. That’s right men! You have body shape. Some of you may like it and some of you may not like your body shape but ya’ll have one. Now what we want to do is focus on how to balance your body shape. Most men like to have inverted triangle in their torso. That means that their shoulders are wider than their hips. However, you don’t want to stop with just your shoulders wider than your hips because you don’t want pencil legs. So what we want to do is balance your body frame. That means if you have real wide shoulders, you need to develop styles, no how to dress that may tone down those shoulders a little bit. Let’s say you need a little more expanding in your stride area, your pants. Well, there’s a way to do that sometimes with pleats, may be staying away from flat ____ type of pants and shorts. Designs also help. If you have a pattern, it can also help. What you want to look for in your body shape is you want to balance it. You do not want to look top heavy; you don’t want to look bottom heavy. You need to look not only at the front part of you; you need to look at the side part of you. Go look in the mirror. Look at the side part of you. You need to look at every body part that you have. You need to write down maybe what your challenges are. Maybe you have a wide tummy. Maybe you have big arms. Maybe you have real small legs. I’m not talking about short legs; I’m talking about small legs. But then you just sit and look at yourself, you also have body assets. What are your body assets? Do you have wonderful eyes?. Do you have a good chest? Do you have great legs. What are your body assets? Because when you are learning to dress social dress, you need to have all that, you need to know all that so that you can balance out your body shape. Thank you."