Body & Proportion

Reading your own frame — shape, scale and line — and dressing the proportions you have rather than the ones a size chart assumes.

In this topic

Body shape

Where your weight and width sit, and what that changes about a silhouette.

Scale & height

How height and bone structure change the size of a print, a lapel or a bag that reads as balanced on you.

Shoulder line

Slope, width and where a seam should land — the single measurement tailoring is least able to fix after the fact.

Measuring yourself

Taking the measurements the rest of this section assumes you know.