Straight on Top, Curvy on Bottom
The book uses Georg Kolbe’s Junge Frau (Young Woman), bronze, 1926 (at Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Walker Art Center, photographed by Doug Miller) to illustrate my body type. I’m feeling sort of naked.
silhouette
A Universal Skirt Silhouette
For some reason this skirt shape has been on my mind for the last several days. Honestly, I’m having trouble conjuring up a picture of someone it wouldn’t look good on. Consider the different figure types and the silhouettes we create with our clothing: Type A = shoulders narrower than hips, works because of the …
Tummy Solutions
A reader question: This is the first time I have heard of the figure type “8”. It describes my figure exactly – or it used to. Now that I’m approaching my 70th birthday, I don’t know what my figure type is -mainly because my tummy looks like I’ve swallowed a small watermelon. My waist is …