Key Takeaways
- Use open necklines to create vertical balance.
- Choose structured fabrics over clingy materials.
- Look for wrap, empire-waist, and A-line silhouettes.
- Use long outer layers to elongate the torso.
- Highlight legs and arms when desired.
Dressing up should boost one’s confidence. Nonetheless, fashion trends cannot be applied to all people. Many fashion trends are applicable to women with hourglass or pear body shapes. This means that if one has an apple body shape, photo effects will differ greatly if she tries these guidelines. If one’s body has excess fat in her chest and abdominal area, and if she has beautiful, slim legs and arms, she should not feel like she has to hide her upper body with voluminous clothing.
Instead, one can try making the emphasis on other body features and reaching harmony in her appearance. Once one understands the principle of visual weight, it becomes easier to manipulate with the proper shapes and textures. To help you get better at this, we have put together 12 apple shaped body before and after outfit comparisons.
12 Before and After Outfit Comparisons
1. The Everyday T-Shirt & Jeans Look
- Before: A fitted and thin jersey crew-neck t-shirt with low rise and skinny jeans. It becomes very narrow in its width and creates a “muffin top.” In the meantime, the upper body looks bigger than before.
- After: A comfortable woven V-neck t-shirt with mid-rise or high-rise straight leg jeans. The open neck makes the neck look longer. The straight-cut jeans give a feel of balance for the width of the upper body.
2. Office Blazer & Trouser Ensemble
- Before: A short and double-breasted suit jacket that is tightly fastened over pleated pants. The double-breasted button design will create an illusion that the wearer has a big tummy, while the open pleats will highlight the tummy area.
- After: A long, single-breasted blazer that you wear open over trousers with a flat front and wide legs. When you leave the structured blazer unbuttoned, it makes two straight lines down the front of your body. This helps make the body look slimmer and taller.
3. The Classic Casual Dress
- Before: This is a big t-shirt dress made from soft cotton. It has no shape and hangs loose from the chest. It makes the body look bigger and boxier because it does not hold its form.
- After: This is a real wrap dress that uses a firm fabric like crepe. The V-neck crosses and helps your bust look good. The tie sits just below your ribs at the slimmest spot of an apple-shaped body.
Visual Summary:
Clingy T-Shirt Dress –> Boxy, unstructured, highlights the midsection.
Structured Wrap Dress –> Defines the ribcage, creates an elongated vertical flow.
4. Sweaters and Winter Knitwear
- Before: Bulky and chunky sweater knit by fishermen, which ends where the body reaches its widest point at the hips. The chunkiness and horizontality of the knitting contribute to further adding width to the outfit and creating a strong line across the belly due to the short hem.
- After: Thin ribbed sweater with vertical lines and slit hem, which allows the fabric to glide easily across the hips. Worn with thin black leggings.
5. High-Summer Shorts & Tank Tops
- Before: Short and very tight denim shorts with tight spaghetti straps focus all the attention on the centre of the body. It looks like the upper body area is small and compacted.
- After: Mid-rise, loose linen shorts with a flowy, sleeveless halter top that goes over the hips help the body look more even. The shorts’ wide legs make the shoulders and legs look balanced, and also show off lean legs.
6. The Evening Party Gown
- Before: A bodycon dress made from satin fabric with a seam line across the waist. Satin, being the fabric, is highly reflective and shiny on all areas of the body. In addition, the tight waist accentuates the middle part of the body, which is unstructured.
- After: A dress that hits mid-length level with the empire waist style. This will mean that the dress must fit at the upper part but be loose at the lower part. The dress is then put on just under the bustline.
7. Blouses for Special Occasions
- Before: A blouse with a high neckline that also comes with puff sleeves and large ruffles over the bust. The use of excess fabric over the shoulder and collarbone makes for a bulky shirt.
- After: A tunic-type blouse that comes with either a split neck or a scoop neck, that comes with fitted sleeves that end in the mid arm area. This enables the display of the forearms and wrists of the body that have slimmer proportions.
8. Casual Athleisure Wear
- Before: A short and tight hoodie with joggers that are tight and low around the belly button. This leads to an imbalance in the body’s mid-section because the centre portion of the body is pushed outwards.
- After: A lengthy and bulky sweatshirt accompanied by well-tight high-waist leggings. The long sweatshirt will ensure that the waist area is covered, but the leggings expose slim and muscular legs and ankles.
9. Skirts for the Creative Wardrobe
- Before: A gathered, high-waisted circle skirt starts with heavy folds of fabric at the waistline. When you gather fabric at the stomach, you add width right away.
- After: An A-line skirt or a slip skirt cut on the side with a flat front band that you close on the side. Clothes that fasten at the side get rid of the zipper bulge over the stomach. The clean line makes the flare help balance wide shoulders.
10. The Everyday Button-Down Shirt
- Before: It is a button-down shirt that is stiff and structured and is tucked into a tight fit of trousers. The whole shirt is tucked inside the trousers and creates folds that highlight the waist portion.
- After: There is a button-down shirt that is paired either in a French Tuck style (the front part of the shirt is tucked only), or simply left unbuttoned over a scoop neck camisole.
11. Spring Outerwear & Cardigans
- Before: A short puffer jacket with two rows of buttons. It has horizontal quilted lines and a short length. This adds width to the upper body, so your torso can look round or bigger.
- After: A light duster cardigan with no buttons or a trench coat with one row of buttons. When left open, these clothes make clean-up-and-down lines in the centre. This helps your torso look longer.
12. Footwear & Ankles Styling
- Before: Soft ballet flats that are pointed at the toe and lack ankle straps. And the old ones had straps around the ankles so that your legs looked shorter and your torso larger, and it screamed out as the straps were really in your face.
- After: Pointed-toe flats or simple boots that are the same colour as your pants. Not having lines across your ankles helps make your legs look longer. This can give you a longer and slimmer look all over.
Conclusion
Discovering one’s personal style is not an effort to camouflage oneself in dark or bulky garments. Rather, it is about learning how to combine lines, forms, and fabrics in the best possible manner for oneself. By replacing fitted sweaters and low-rise jeans with tunic tops, straight-legged jeans, and long loose layers, one can create a fabulous outfit. These tips change how an apple shaped body before and after styling can look, showing off your slim legs and your nice neckline.
Pick well-shaped clothes that move over your body and do not stick. Keep small details away from your middle, and always choose your clothes based on what you like best.
FAQs
Q1: Am I allowed to wear a belt with an apple-shaped body type?
The use of belts can also turn out to be flattering when worn correctly. One should avoid wearing belts that may make you look fat due to being worn at the natural waist position. The best thing is to select belts that blend well with your outfit. The belts may be worn either across the open coat or just below the bust line.
Q2: How come some high-waisted pants may feel awkward or make me look bad?
In case of high-waisted pants that have pleating in front, pockets, or gathers may increase the appearance of belly fat. It would be best if you wear pants that are flat front with side zips. The soft fabrics like ponte or stretch twill are good and won’t fit very tightly.
Q3: Is there any particular rule that is the most crucial one concerning dressing up people with apple-shaped figures?
Choose outfits which have an open neckline, like the V-neck and the scoop neckline. Choose outfits that do not hug your body. The technique will ensure that your face and shoulder areas are highlighted.
