Having the apple shape means you have beautiful curves, but at the same time you might be wondering what jumpsuits can camouflage your midsection, a typical feature for the apple. In this detailed guide, we’ll first take a deep dive to fully understand your body features, and then help you find the most flattering jumpsuits for the apple body type.
MAIN CONSIDERATION
- Broader and more prominent shoulders. This also means that they are also relatively wider than your narrow hips.
- Shapely and well-defined bust. Your bust is fuller and more prominent, which also means that they tend to be bigger.
- Little to no waist definition. Your waistline may appear less pronounced or even completely absent, with a more rounded or straight shape from the ribcage to the hips.
- Heavier midsection is prone to a muffin top. Your midsection area often has a rounded appearance due to your tendency to gain more weight in this region of your body. Your midsection may protrude outward and create a heavier-looking frame.
- Small and straight hips. The transition from the waist to the hips goes straight, with less emphasis on a defined curve or narrowing at the hip region.
- Slim and well-shaped legs. Your gorgeous legs provide a sense of balance to your overall body shape, which also acts as a counterpoint to your bigger upper body.
It’s really important to know the areas of your body that you need to highlight and downplay in order to choose the right structure for a jumpsuit.
FIT
Tailored
A tailored fit when it comes to jumpsuits can be customized to cinch in at the waist, creating the illusion of a more defined waistline. This efficiently brings balance to your frame while also enhancing your features and downplaying your problem areas.
A well-fitted jumpsuit can bring the best out of your features by minimizing areas of concern such as your lack of curves and heavy midsection. Tailoring ensures that the jumpsuit skims your body in the most flattering way to accentuate your curves and create a streamlined silhouette.
You can achieve a tailored fit if you go for strategic seams and darts, or by having your jumpsuit professionally altered if needed.
Fitted at the Waist
One of the key causes of your apple figure’s imbalance is your undefined waist. Good thing, most jumpsuits come in structures wherein the waist is properly cinched using a tie, belt, or elastic band.
Jumpsuits should have the ability to hug your waist in a way that its curve will look more distinct. This will help you achieve a curvier figure, similar to an hourglass frame.
Flowy
If you’re looking for a more relaxed fit that doesn’t look too baggy, find jumpsuits that feature flowy, lightweight fabrics. Jumpsuits that have a flowy fit create a sense of movement on your silhouette and therefore visually add curves and dimension to your frame.
NECKLINE
V-Neck
V-Neck jumpsuits are great for apple figures because the shape of the neckline itself creates a vertical line that visually elongates your upper body to give more room to your prominent upper half features. The sharp point of the V-neck draws attention towards the center and decolletage area, which also effectively divert the focus from your thicker midsection.
Square
Square necklines in jumpsuits can give you the chance to enhance your bust area. They provide a wider and more open neckline that frames the bust and makes it appear more defined and accentuated.
In addition to this, they are also quite elongating in a way that helps draw a vertical line that visually elongates the upper body. This efficiently diverts attention from your thicker midsection and focuses on the upper body, resulting in a more balanced and elongated overall silhouette.
Off-the-Shoulder
Off-the-shoulder jumpsuits are great for highlighting your beautiful broad shoulders and distinct collarbone. This effect neutralizes your visual width in the upper body for better balance in comparison with your lower body.
By exposing the shoulders and collarbone, the off-the-shoulder neckline creates a focal point right where your best features are and detract attention from the areas you are probably concerned about like your undefined waist, fuller midsection, and narrow hips.
SLEEVES
Flutter
If you’re looking for some subtle coverage and a very romantic design, you’ll love the charm of flutter sleeves! The gentle flutters also distract the eyes from seeing the imbalance in your figure by softening the sharpness of your shoulders.
This brings the attention upward, where your best features are like your shoulders and well-shaped bust.
Cap
Cap sleeves are short sleeves that cover just the top of the shoulders, extending just a little beyond their edges which pretty much resembles a cap. They’re like the cute, dainty cousins of regular sleeves and your apple figure will surely find them flattering as well.
They help to balance out your proportions by subtly muting the prominence of your shoulders to look more balanced with your narrower lower body. Apart from this visual benefit, they are also quite comfortable thanks to the slight coverage they offer for your arms.
LEG SHAPE
Flare
Flared pants in jumpsuits are also very helpful in terms of bringing balance to an apple-shaped body. With the fabric gently flaring out, the voluminous flow of the pants adds significant depth to your less prominent lower body.
The distinct shape of the pants makes them quite catchy and therefore detracts the attention away from your heavier midsection and an undefined waist.
Straight Cut
Going for straight-leg jumpsuits is definitely a foolproof fashion choice for Apple body shapes due to its minimal and streamlined silhouette. The straight cut of the pants neatly falls vertically from the hips to the ankles, which makes your overall frame look more proportionate.
Straight-leg jumpsuits also have a more tailored fit, which makes it easier to pull off without worries of any size discrepancies. This will also neutralize the imbalance that your upper and lower body naturally possess.
Wide-leg
Wide-leg jumpsuits are great if you’re looking into adding a subtle but consistent flow of volume to your lower body, more particularly your hips and legs. The wide structure of the pants visually balances the fuller midsection by creating an illusion of broader hips.
It significantly gives a sense of verticality that helps elongate your legs and overall figure. In addition to this, its wideness provides enough room for the legs to feel relaxed and more comfortable.
Palazzo
Palazzo jumpsuits are relatively wider compared to the usual wide-leg silhouette, so if you’re into adding a fancier amount of volume to flatter your frame, this is a very stylish option. The voluminous nature of these pants visually offsets the heavier midsection to create better balance overall.
As they usually have a draping flow, they draw the eyes up and down and therefore influence your visual length and slimness. This tones down your top-heavy frame while still giving prominence to your best features.
FABRIC
Structured
Fabrics that are able to firmly hold shape can be very helpful for apple-shaped ladies because they can give more volume without the unnecessary excessive amount of fabric.
Structured fabrics (such as cotton twill or linen) can provide a supportive framework to help shape and contour your apple-shaped body in a flattering way. These fabrics can help create the illusion of a more defined waistline while also camouflaging your fuller tummy area, creating a more proportionate silhouette.
Drapey
Drapey or flowy fabrics, particularly for the leg part of the jumpsuit, can help create an uninterrupted vertical visual line that gives you a longer and leaner silhouette. This is very efficient in counterbalancing the strong features of your upper body and evenly distributing the attention from top to bottom.
Flowy chiffon, silky satin, and georgette fabric are just some great examples of drapey fabrics that can visibly tweak your apple body shape’s imbalances.
BEST STYLES
Boiler
Boiler jumpsuits are not just super comfy and stylish, but they also often have a structured and tailored fit that helps Apple figures to work around their uneven body proportions. They have very distinct seams that help create a polished look, as well as figure-flattering details like single-row vertical buttons and belts.
Since additional waist definition is very important for apple figures who lack this feature, a boiler jumpsuit that features a belt can be of tremendous help to bring a more feminine shape to your frame. These certain details draw attention upwards and therefore distract the eyes from the midsection, diverting focus to your other best features and creating a more balanced overall appearance.
Blazer/Suit-Type
If you’re looking for an elegant jumpsuit to take your apple-shaped body to sophisticated events, then you better have at least one blazer jumpsuit in your wardrobe! Just like the usual formal/semi-formal blazers, blazer jumpsuits have that tailored fit to perfectly embrace your frame and work around your problem areas.
Blazer jumpsuits typically feature a belt or a cinched waist, which again, is a very important thing for apple figures to create the appearance of a defined waistline. In addition to this, many blazer jumpsuits incorporate vertical seams or lapels that visually produce vertical lines that elongate the body.
Cape
The cape detail that hangs from your shoulders is already a statement on its own. With this said, it becomes the focal point of your look, highlighting one of your best features – your shoulders.
What’s great about cape jumpsuits is that despite the fact that they are placed on your relatively more prominent upper body, this doesn’t overwhelm your lower body. It basically just flatters your upper body and detracts attention away from your heavier midsection and lack of curves.
STYLES TO AVOID
Bodycon
Anything that’s too tight is a big no-no for apple figures, including bodycon jumpsuits. Remember, your body shape’s biggest concern is the apparent imbalance between your pronounced upper body and smaller lower body so you wouldn’t want anything that clings too close to highlight this imbalance.
In addition to this, it will definitely highlight your heavier midsection, which is a very common concern among apple shapes. It will make your muffin top or tummy bulge look way more obvious (or even bigger) than it actually is!
Harem
I know how many apple shapes would think about adding volume to their lower body to balance out their voluptuous upper half. Well, harem jumpsuits with their very unflattering drop crotch are not really the best way to do this.
Harem jumpsuits are constructed with billowy pants that taper tightly at the ankles. This adds an overwhelming amount of volume that drastically narrows down at the smallest part of your legs (ankles) and therefore gives you a very heavy look.
Its overall silhouette – from the drop crotch style to the billowy pants, can only lead to a disproportionate look that disrupts the natural balance of your body.
Baggy
Baggy jumpsuits, while also visually voluminous, excessive fabric use can lead to horizontal creases on your lower body that will only make you look shorter and heavier. Not only that, baggy jumpsuits have a very loose fit, which also means that your naturally undefined waist won’t get the cinch it needs to look shapely.
Overall, it overshadows your figure by creating too much volume from top to bottom. This will also conceal even your best features like your shoulders, bust, and slim legs.
