The Body Shape Bible: Forget Your Size, Discover Your Shape, Transform Yourself: Forget Your Size Discover Your Shape Transform Yourself

I've got Trinny and Susannah's other books and for a time searched for the features belonging to a typical pear shape, only to find from looking in this book that I'm closer to a skittle. Their advice has prompted me to look more carefully at whether clothes and shoes really suit me rather than whether they suit my wallet so thank you once again ladies.

Only for the complete novice (0/0 people found this helpful)

If you already know what shape you are, avoid this book and if you haven't a clue, this book may just confuse you!

Trinny and Susannah's The Body Shape Bible really only has four different body shapes in it, there are about 5 hourglass variations, 4 of them pears and the rest of them make up the apples, bricks and inverted triangles. Their celebrity examples are dubious at best, Sandra Bullock and Katie Holmes pears? I don't think so. A couple of unflattering back side photographs doesn't make you a pear!

If you know your shape, this book may help you a little. As an hourglass (and no, being plus sized doesn't make me a "Cello" thanks very much), this book didn't teach me anything I didn't already know. In fact I thought some of the advice in here was just plain dodgy. Cropped jackets? Are you mad? Nothing fattens or shortens an hourglass more than a cropped jacket. Now I'll admit they do recommend fitted cropped jackets, but I'll tell you something, I've never found one!

Lastly, unless you actually live in the UK, or are planning a trip there, the shopping section is a complete waste of time.

Most of this information is available in one form or another all over the internet, and a great deal of other stuff on the T&S website. So don't bother with this book, Google is your best friend, NOT this book. I do highly recommend What You Wear Can Change Your Life, however. Buy that instead!

Really Helpful Starting Point (0/0 people found this helpful)

I totally get that not everyone will like Trinny & Susannah, but I think they really know what they're talking about. Unless you fit one of the shapes absolutely, you will probably need to read the shapes you might be, try on the clothes for each shape and review how you look dressed as they recommend for each shape. It's not a quick thing, but once you have clear in your head which shape you are, you then start to understand why clothes you have always liked have never fitted.

Good Advice But A Little Confusing (0/0 people found this helpful)

Feel Fab at 50

Body shape is crucial to finding clothes that flatter, as they determine the fabrics and styles that will move with you and not add on pounds. I think that S&T, though I am a fan, have moved away from the traditional image shapes such as pear and apple and come up with many more, probably unnecessarily. You really only need to understand where the curves or straight lines of your silhoutte appear and dress them accordingly. So a straight hipped woman with no bum would look great in a straight skirt in a stiff fabric. Curves need drape to skim. It's really quite simple. It was good to see proportions addressed and the photo's were also good. Is it the best book on the subject - not really - but it's a start for someone who isn't able to see a professional. What would have improved it is if other pieces of the image jigsaw were included such as personality and style preference, as this is why many make over programmes fail in the long term.

Helpful in parts (3/3 people found this helpful)

As a fan of T and S i bought this hoping it would advise me of the right styles for my shape which i must say that it did however the book is heavily padded out with other info which is not at all helpful if your not that shape. the part relevent to your own shape is only about 5 pages long and then the majority of the rest of the book is about all the other shapes. I'd recommend either borrowing this from the library and scanning the pages relevant to your shape for future ref or buying it from amazon then selling it on. it won't be a classic

The Body Shape Bible: Forget Your Size, Discover Your Shape, Transform Yourself: Forget Your Size Discover Your Shape Transform Yourself

Trinny Woodall, Susannah Constantine

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Thanks again, ladies! (0/0 people found this helpful)

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