The Maxi Dress is an Evergreen. Every year in fashion and loved by women of any body shape, size or age. Since the choices are so great Maxi Dresses are not anymore only choices for special occasions or for holidays. They have made their way  into our day to day life. It is nowadays perfectly ok to wear Maxi Dresses for casual occasions, to dinner engagements, or as well at the pub and most popular now to choose a maxi dress for barbecues or any outings in the park- as long as the sun is shining. And since the movie Sex in the City 2 has been screened and we saw Carrie Bradshaw lounging in a green maxi dress on her couch while watching TV with her hubby we have discovered just another “Maxi Dress” occasion. With so many wear outs out of one dress your Maxi Dress should hit all the all the right boxes . It should suit your body shape, body size, neckline, bust and arm size. It is just another myth that as long as you get the right size in your maxi dress and it covers up your body that you don’t have to worry about a fit, because it is all the same. Style is noting without a fit. Otherwise it is back to all of the same: You are creating the wrong attention to the wrong features and creating the wrong effect to your visual body balance. So, make your next Maxi Dress into a keeper with maximum impact and wear it many versatile ways!

• Neat Hourglass: Any style goes

• Full Hourglass : Don’t hide your curves behind high neckline or Empire Lines. Show off your curves by following your body shape. You have  already got the attention because of your curves, so don’t out do them with patterns thought out the dress. Less is more.

• Apple : Your neckline is your trump card. So go for only lower necklines. Choose wider straps over spaghetti straps- it won’t give you enough support for your bust and they are too petite for your body shape. Choose only Empire Lines in your Maxi Dress, because they will give you room for your fullest point and as well as structure. Choose straight cuts over A- line, because they will make you look wider visually.

• Pear: Strong shoulder and top details are required to balance the lower half. Strapless options or spaghetti straps are  no nos. Empire lines work best for this shape and be easy on patterns and definitely stay clear of pleats, ruffles, layers on your lower half. Remember the drama stays on top only.

• Inverted Triangle has exactly the opposite rule to a pear. Therefore the drama starts on the lower half. Best are strapless or spaghetti straps to make the broad shoulder less broad and absolutely a noes are one shoulder dresses! Waist or dropped waist lines are great choices while Empire Lines will be more complicated to pull it off. Choose an A-Line, Flare, Bubble shape dress rather a straight one. Pleats, busy pattern, fuzzy styles are all superb in the skirt part of the dress.

• Lean Hourglass is all about adding volume and curves to their body shape. So, any clutter and volume around shoulders, bust and hips work well here . Straight lines as shift dresses need another thought, because they can make them quickly look like a tooth pick if they don’t balance it out with rounder patterns as floral print or horizontal stripes. Keep to smaller rather than big patterns.

• Rectangle: Most important thing here is to create the illusion of a waist.  Best are Empire Dropped Waist lines or Maxi dresses with a dopped sleeve line. Rounder patterns like floral or animal print are always better than abstract print. It will just make you more angular. Remember you don’t need edges but curves at the right places!

Last not least for women with big arms:

• Choose Maxi Dresses with elbow sleeve lines. As long as you wear a e.g bolero, shawl, jacket with your Maxi Dresses wide straps or strapless styles are good as well. Just avoid any petite styles such a patterns or straps that will just high light your big arms.
• Also, choose a loose fit sleeve line over a fitted one – especially when it has any pattern.

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