Ladies' Room

Pear ladies have beautiful shoulders, a small chest, slim arms, a tiny waist, curvy hips and they carry weight on their bottom and thighs.

Do: Focus attention on your upper body. Wear eye-catching earrings or necklaces. Play up your shoulders and balance your hips with wide slash-neck tops. Wear three quarter length coats and jackets that skim your bottom and thighs, or cropped jackets nipped in at the waist. Choose A-line skirts that skim the hips. Wear a dark slimming colour on your lower half. Restrict patterns and bright colours to tops. Make your bottom look smaller with low-rise bootleg trousers. Wear heels to balance out thick calves.

Don't: Wear short skirts if you have chunky calves. Choose bias-cut skirts, they cling in all the wrong places. Wear bright colours on your bottom half. Wear gathered or belted waistbands.