If you were Princess Beatrice's style advisor....

[Empress Merel]

Every fashion adviser would suggest for a girl who has more curves to wear clothes to hug your body more.
I think a lot of bigger girls make the mistake that wide clothes will make you look slimmer. Well, that's not true. It makes you look more plump, sometimes even pregnant, un-groomed and messy. With the right colors, form and pattern (vertical stripes for example) it makes every curvy woman look great.

[Mermaid1962]

Curvy ladies (like me!) can look good in clothing that skims the body, but it has to fit really well--not tight and not loose. I like tailored clothes for that reason: lots of princess seams (no pun intended) and darts.

Originally Posted by rmay286

This is why I'd hate to be a princess looking for fashion advice!

I'm not saying either of you is right or wrong, but I find it funny how one of you says to "wear clothes that hug your body more" and the other one says "quit with all the tight clothes"!

I guess everyone has a different sense of style.

[Jacknch]

I have a female friend (she's Italian with lovely olive skin tone) who has rather a curvy figure and she asked me to go shopping with her to help choose a dress for a wedding she was going to. Her boyfriend had gone with her the day before and picked out a slinky white dress with huge split at the side, whcih she didn't like! So we went to Monsoon and she tried all their dresses on. Of course there were many styles, designs, colours and shapes etc and I was amazed at how some looked OK on her yet others looked dreadful! Eventually, after a couple of hours, she tried on a black, 3/4 length A-line skirted sleevless dress with colourful silk flower embroidery and it looked absolutely amazing on her. So she at last found the shape and fit that looked best on her. On someone else, it might have looked awful! Anyway, the moral of the story so to speak is that rather than slavishly follow all the up-to-the minute fashions and styles no matter what they are (and always look great on a six-foot tall, ultra slim model), Beatrice should find style, shape, colours etc that really bring out the best in her looks.

[rmay286]

I can't say I'm particularly curvy, but that fashion advice definitely makes sense. I wouldn't call Beatrice fat, but she is a little on the heavy side, and loose fitting clothes do tend to make people look larger...but on the other hand, tight clothes emphasize curves that maybe shouldn't be emphasized. Beatrice seems to be following your advice about well-fitted clothes in the latest set of pictures that were just posted, and I think she looks nice.

[kimebear]

She would benefit from fuller, shorter hair. Getting rid of the ever present jackets would be a good start as well. Clothes that accent her curves instead of emphasizing them would also not go amiss. My biggest suggestion would be that she tries dressing more for her age. Her clothes always look like they belong on an older woman. She really is quite a pretty girl. If the stylist in her finally meets the princess in her, I think she could be quite a stunner in more classically lined clothing.