Body Shape Diagnosis & Self-Check– category –

Why Does Self Body-Shape Diagnosis Never Feel "Right"? The short answer: the biggest reason self-diagnosis results keep shifting isn't your body shape itself — it's day-to-day differences in "condition, posture, and viewing angle." Body-shape diagnosis is meant to look at fixed traits like bone, muscle, and joint size, but when you check yourself, things like slouching or an arched back, or checking in a mirror while wearing clothes that hide your body's true lines, easily...

If your body shape self-check gives you a different answer every time, the cause is either that you're judging by the silhouette of your clothes, or that you're only looking at parts of your body that shift with your daily condition and water retention. What a professional actually checks during a real diagnosis comes down to just three or four spots around the "bones and joints" — the parts that don't change much with your weight or body composition. In this article, I'll...

"Body shape diagnosis? Isn't that just another fashion buzzword?" If that's what you've been thinking, you're exactly the person who stands to benefit most from learning your own body type and using it when you shop. Do that, and the amount of time you spend every morning agonizing over what to wear drops dramatically. In thirteen years as a professional stylist, I've helped countless clients choose their clothes, and without exception, the ones who truly understand their ...

You've probably heard the term "body shape diagnosis," but wondered, "so which type am I, actually?" or "can I really figure this out myself?" Body shape diagnosis is a way of classifying the fashion styles that suit you into three types — Straight, Wave, and Natural — based on your natural bone structure, muscle, and how you carry fat. You don't need to visit a salon: if you know the right checkpoints, you can diagnose yourself perfectly well at home. In this article, dra...

Have you ever had the experience of clothes that worked perfectly back home suddenly looking completely wrong the moment you moved to Malaysia? In a hot, humid, year-round-summer climate, you only get real "polish" and "coolness" together once you match your fabric choices to your own body shape type. Drawing on what I've learned facing exactly this climate firsthand as a professional stylist of thirteen years living in Malaysia, I'm YUKI, and here I'll share the standards...