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  <subtitle>Body shapes and fit, with the evidence.</subtitle>
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    <title>Body shapes, measured: five for women, five for men</title>
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    <updated>2026-10-14T09:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>What the shape names mean, how researchers sort bodies with a tape measure, and why most people are not an hourglass.</summary>
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    <title>Stripes, dark colours and fit: what vision science says</title>
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    <updated>2026-10-14T09:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Horizontal stripes don’t widen you the way the old rule says. What experiments found, what depends on the body, and which tips are only habit.</summary>
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    <title>The best dress for your shape, one shape at a time</title>
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    <updated>2026-10-14T09:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Wrap, A-line, sheath, empire, shift: which silhouettes suit hourglass, spoon, rectangle, inverted triangle and round bodies, and which measurement to choose the size by.</summary>
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    <title>Menswear for your shape: jackets, shirts and trousers</title>
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    <updated>2026-10-14T09:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Trapezoid, inverted triangle, rectangle, triangle and oval: what to wear, how it should fit, and which advice is evidence and which is tailoring habit.</summary>
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    <title>Fit first: why your size label is the wrong place to start</title>
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    <updated>2026-10-14T09:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>About one in four online clothes orders goes back, and size is the top reason. Labels drift between brands; your measurements don’t. A method that works for every shape.</summary>
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