OMG! I was a Pear Shape...! @_@!! How Body Shapes Can Be Confusing/Conflicting...

Hmmm... OK.
So, this is just 'mind blowing'...

I am still going through Bobbie Thomas's book, "The Power of Style"...
Mine is in Korean though...

I just took a look in the mirror, to see which body shape I was...

In her book, Bobbie uses 5 different shapes that she calls the X-factor.

• Hourglass
• Triangle(=Pear)
• Inverted Triangle
• Rectangle
• Diamond(=Apple)

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Just by looking with my eyes, it doesn't look like I have the Triangle/Pear shape...

My shoulders and hips look roughly about the same...

AND, here's the tricky bit...

Don't forget to check the size of your head!!

This info is NOT in her book...

But doing the X-factor in Thomas's way, made me realize this!

I have pretty broad shoulders for an Asian...

Same with my hips...

BUT! My head size is quite small...

And I think that's what gives the ILLUSION...

that I'm a moderate hourglass shape...!

(Now, there ARE two ways out there, in determining your body shape also, which makes it even MORE confusing; some style gurus tell you to measure your shoulder width, while others ask you to measure your bust size...! And you could end up with TOTALLY different answers based on this!)

It looks to me that...

due to my head to shoulder ratio,

my hip size looked about equal to my shoulder.

In reality though, and I took a straight pole (my floor wiper) and let it fall perpendicular to the floor, and my hip was a little bit bigger than my shoulder.

* * *

In the past though, both neat hourglass shape outfits and inverted triangle shape outfits have worked for me...

So, I never even suspected that I could be a pear shape...

Or, it could be that I put on more weight on my hips in the recent year(s)...

* * *

Whichever it is, I'm surprised that I am NOW a Pear Shape...

and I'll have to see if their suggestions for silhouettes resonate for me!!!

Click Here to See Bobbie Thomas Talk About X-Factor in This Video

^ Sorry. I couldn't get the code to paste into my blog post...

This is a page from her book that helps you figure out which type you are!!

:-)

OK, ladies~!!

xoxo

Jessica Flatshoenista

Book Review: Bobbie Thomas's "The Power of Style" & My Color Compass and Mystery of My Season

Hi ladies!

OK! So I stumbled upon this book by Ms. Thomas at the bookstore, and it's been a gripping read! I was so excited, I couldn't sleep!

I bought the translated version in Korean, so there may be small differences I guess, but so far, I am really touched and inspired by the warm, loving, and practical help she is giving in the 10 steps to YOUR own Power Style!

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Having said that, if you have read 3 dozen style books already, this isn't going to be entirely new. And a lot of the first part of the book (first five chapters) do get a little bit repetitive when it goes into the WHY you need style & importance of having self-esteem.

If I had a daughter though, this is the book I would most likely give her in her early teens. So, thank you Ms. Thomas! 

I have been through a lot of different systems in the past decade, so I'm really happy to work through her 10 steps, trying to put it all together into a cohesive whole... and this book is helping me do exactly that!

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While the whole book is presented in pretty clear steps, 3 of the exercises were my definite favorites... I'm not going to share pages from the books, just what I wrote down as my own answers...

#1. What is my favorite movie, book, and music?

Movie: Gigi

Book: Han Feizi

Music: R&B, Glenn Lewis & Amel Larrieux, "What's Come Over Me"

#2. Who would portray me in a movie?

Julia Stiles in the Shakespearean adaptation of "Taming of the Shrew" 

in "10 Things I Hate About You."

 #3. Making Your Color Compass

7 Important Colors for Me!!!

1. Favorite color: Red

2. Accent color: Magenta pink/purple

3. Light color: White

4. Summer color: Teal green

5. Winter color: Wine/bordeaux

6. Dark color: Black

7. Neutral color: Gray

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Mystery of My Seasonal Color . . .

So...

As I wrote in the blog post title, 

I'd been really mystified by WHY my deep autumn colors
didn't give me the results I wanted...

According to those color draping test,
I was definitely reacting best with the vivid autumn colors.

BUT, the muddier and more grayed autumn colors didn't work for me at all.

Basically, taking out all of those muddier/grayed colors just left me with very little to choose from... :(

Even with the David Zyla body colors, my 'passion color' which is my Red, was clearly a terracotta color which is an Autumn color... that places me in the Autumn grouping.

Having said that...
the MOST important thing, which is my HAIR color...
is unmistakably a Winter color.

It's black.
My eye color reads Autumn brown in the Sun,
but in indoor light, there is very little difference and it reads as a cool dark brown.

I started checking all of the known Zyla colors in the 2 deep palettes in the book. 

Even though my skin tone is more peach-beige than pink-beige, 

my Dramatic Colors are both in the Deep Winter Palette. 

Teal green and magenta pink-purple.

My hair/eye colors are found in BOTH palettes.

So, overall, I have MORE check marks in the Deep Winter, than the Deep Autumn...

There's also the psychological impact of colors. Deep Winter reads more urban/modern which is the predominant scene of Seoul... Unless I color my hair in more noticeable red/copper/brown, I probably would be better off sticking with my Deep Winter palette. Because it does NOT contain the muddy colors.

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I still look forward to the body shape & rearranging my closet...

But so far, I'm pretty impressed, and very grateful for Bobbi Thomas's clear cut & nurturing information. 

Thanks for reading!!

Will be back soon~~

Love & Light,

xoxo

Jessica Flatshoenista

Dressing Your Truth team emailed me about copyright issues...

Hi ladies.

Well. I just got an email, asking me to stop using the words DYT, Type, Type 1~4, T1~4 saying that people might mistake me for a DYT expert.

I don't know if I had ever made anyone believe this, because I have always focused on my experience of DYT.

I will be making changes thusly, as requested. But it is with really mixed feelings that DYT crew are so 'controlling' about how their system is 'experienced' by their customers. I believe in the 'freedom of speech' if I am focusing on my own experiences of their product and services.

I have also mentioned the positives of DYT as well as some of its limitations, but DYT has emailed me three times in total I think on me voicing my own opinion.

Anyway. I am not following DYT as a system right now, and I am doing other style journeys, so I guess it's 'divine timing' for me to be more open and passionate about these new things, and let go of DYT as a whole.

And say 'farewell' to DYT completely.

Thanks for reading my posts on DYT. I have daily wondered how there is such a high demand for other ladies wanting to read about my experiences with DYT, because each day I think there were about 80 hits to my shares about it.

But this issue of DYT having a very heavy hand in policing their community was always there from the beginning. It began in their forum on their website, then in the Facebook groups, and my friend blogger was also contacted.

It seems to me that this is just how they are. OK.

Is all from me. Will let you know of other updates and changes to my blog, when they have been completed! Thank you!!!


Love,

Jessica Flatshoenista