How to dress for your body hang-ups
telegraph.co.ukfat or skinny shaming, we feel there’s still value in talking about how best to dress for your shape. We may have moved on from the bossy diktats of, say, MGM costume designer’s Edith Head’s book, The Dress Doctor, which came out in 1959, but that doesn’t mean we’d jettison everything she says in it.
This, after all, is the woman who dressed Grace Kelly on and off screen. While her advice about what to wear for an archery session is firmly rooted in an era when women still wore hats and gloves to go shopping, who wouldn’t want a bit of the glossiness and poise that Head helped Kelly achieve in Rear Window.
When she says that “even a perfect figure looks better if it doesn’t resemble a sausage”, we hear her. Of course you might be partial to a sausage effect and, to paraphrase Carol Vorderman, we can all wear what we b***** well like.
That doesn’t have to be at odds with ac-cent-tchu-ating the positive. There are so many tools to help us look our best, the prime one being that little oblong thing in your hand.
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