The Body the Rules Were Written For
Pick up any styling guide for apple-shaped bodies and you will find the same instructions: wear dark colours on top, draw attention to your legs, avoid anything that cinches at the waist. The advice is not wrong, exactly. It is just written for a body that lives in a different climate, buys clothes in different silhouettes, and does not attend a single wedding between October and February. It was written for a Western body wearing Western clothes, and it has been copy-pasted into Indian fashion media without a single adjustment for the woman reading it in Mumbai or Lucknow or Coimbatore.
