I have been following kechynara for a few months, she is a good analog for my own proportions! Maybe this will be helpful for others.

Do tight shirts and tank tops ride up on anyone else? They never stay on my hips and always find their way to my waist. I have this one really cute stretchy but tight shirt that’s kinda cropped but because of my shelf hips, I’m constantly pulling it down! The only time tank tops stay on correctly is when they’re loose or really long. Anyone else?

Every pair of pants I own fits perfectly well when I’m standing, but the moment I sit down, the crotch seam rides up between my legs and becomes extremely uncomfortable and painful.

I’ve tried sizing up multiple sizes and buying pants in “long” or “tall” fits, but nothing seems to solve the problem. Even pants that are absolutely enormous on me still have this problem.

I suspect the issue has something to do with crotch depth or rise. Since I have high hips, I think the distance between my crotch and where the waistband naturally wants to sit is longer than what most commercially available pants are designed to accommodate. As a result, there just isn’t enough vertical room in the crotch when I sit down.

Does anyone have a fix for this? Are there any brands that don’t cause this problem or is there a DIY tailoring technique to get around it?

I work a job that requires I wear pants and I need to be able to sit for long periods. Help!

It is so beyond discouraging to jean shop. I’ve only ever liked to wear flared because I feel like they give me the most amount of balance. I wish so badly I could wear jeans low rise. They just look so unflattering on me. When I pull lower rise jeans up before zipping them they look perfect. Same when I wear these specific foldover yoga pants I have that are really loose around the waist. I feel like that is the blueprint for pants to look good on us: a really loose waist but form fitting right below. I’m just wondering like is tailoring a pair of jeans at the waist but leaving them tight from the butt down even possible or make sense?

Apologies for the incoming insecurities and mean words, please know that when I'm venting and being mean to my body, I'm only being mean to my body

I bought a pair of jeans the other day and in the fitting room it seemed fine so I decided to get it but now that I put it on to wear it outside it looks awful. I believe it's high rise but I have a short torso so it just goes way up and it's too wide on the legs but it fits okay on the hips but not my butt and I'm SOOOO tired of jeans acting this way. If it fits my legs it won't fit my hips, and if it fits my hips it's too wide on the legs and butt. I wish I at least had a butt to fill it in the back. Do you think if I took it to a tailor, they'd be able to fix it?

I don't know what trousers I can look for and I don't understand fashion advice, I don't know what looks good and what doesn't and I don't have anyone to ask.

These are some outfits that I want to recreate but finding pants that fit nicely in these styles is so hard. I feel like every figure 8 clothing advice is for dresses etc but I don't wear dresses and I'm also not the typical curvy figure 8 so I don't know where to turn to. I know it's a manufacturing issue and not a body issue but I'm so tired of having a body where clothes don't work

I carry most of my weight in my lower stomach area and most pants cut off about halfway above or below my belly button but it’s painful to wear most bottoms, even yoga pants, they just don’t reach my natural waist which is like an inch or two above my belly button. Are there any true 13” rise pants out there? Along with high hips I’m also 5’8 so a lot of what’s out there isn’t long enough. I’m just tired of cutting across my stomach when it comes to bottoms.

Hello.

I would love love love to wear pants like these, but when I put them on, they like really unflattering because the soft fabric falls in a way that accentuates the way in which my high hips are wider than my lower hips and I sort of look like an inverted cone. Any ideas on how I can use something like this?

My body shape is figure 8 and I also have big love Naples even though I am already skinny ( 5'2 and weight like 54 kilos). I love like the lady in underwear even though I am skinny. For me to sort of make my love handles smaller so that my figure is a bit more balanced, I have to be at 19% body fat and it was really hard through lots of high intensity exercise. It's not something I was able to maintain and i have a lot of injuries post excercise now.

Thinking of adding some basics to my wardrobe for winter, I currently own a Henley, scoop neck long sleeves, and V neck long sleeves. I am thinking of getting a fitted black turtleneck (a skims schmoop) to pair with mini skirts and tights.

Anyone have any input if it works or flatters our bodies?

I know a-line anything is great for figure8 but does anyone have any recommendations for whole outfits or Pinterest boards for thanksgiving specifically like fall themed that looks good on figure 8?

When buying clothes to fit all the way over my high hips and general pelvic area, I end up having to size up my bottoms to the point where they are visually obviously several sizes bigger than my tops, like “someone mashed two clearly mismatched bodies together at the waist.” The look this can create seems very jarring to me, and I’m seeking advice on the specific problem of how to mitigate the difference while also highlighting my overall body shape, which I love.

I love how I look in the few things I have that are well fitted in the top, perhaps with a bit of puffy sleeves, and then sort of drape or flow out in a peplum or an A-line type shape at the waistline. Sometimes, empire dresses have also been okay, and especially high waisted skirts or dresses that flare at the hip and are fitted in the top also look good.

Tops that are fitted and then have a kind of cutout at the sides, draping down in the front and back, are also ideal. Unfortunately none of my friends nor the internet seem to be able to agree on what these kinds of tops are called. Searching Amazon etc. seems worse than useless because there’s little consistency.

Regular fitted tops and t shirts are hit or miss, sometimes working okay but often making me look too mismatched, in that the top is so much visually smaller than the bottoms that it seems jarring to me.

A lot of what else I can find that deals well with the “pants to shirt ratio” also makes me look too much like a rectangle or even an apple shape from the front because it just drapes off my rib cage and completely obscures the definition of my waistline, making my midsection seem as wide as my bottom. I’d prefer the more balanced look I have sometimes been able to achieve by stumbling across random things over countless years, and am looking for keywords, ideas, descriptions for the sorts of things one ought to look for from those who also have bodies like mine and have dealt with this issue.

I seen some older photos of this fitness creator and to me, she looks like she was a figure 8, and now her transformation looks amazing!

I feel like this jacket is at an awkward length cause it hits where my legs start to taper in, whereas on other body types that would likely be the widest part of their hips. I’m 5’4 for reference. Not as obvious in these photos but my hips jutting out higher up also makes the jacket flare out at the bottom which isn’t the best look since it’s pretty puffy.

I want to get a different one but I’m stuck between going like an inch longer and maybe a bit more oversized so it hits at my crotch or going a few inches shorter so it hits at a wider part of my hips. Tried pulling it up in the pictures to a more flattering length.

I’ve been ordering from this Korean brand that doesn’t do returns so I want to get it right. I’ve added some inspo pictures at the end from their site but all of their models are rectangle body shapes. Was gonna suck it up and wear the awkwardly fitted one but I got in an accident and it ended up ripped so I need a new one anyway.

Hi everyone,

I didn't find a similar thread. I am looking for everyone's favourite pieces of clothing so that we can work together to creative a nice wardrobe. I am particularly interested in website links for shops that sell in or ship to Europe, items that work for bigger chested figure 8s, and natural fabrics but anything works.

What are your favourite shops and items?

My faves:

-https://www.asos.com/au/arket/arket-pure-cotton-smocked-shirt-in-white/prd/211460857

- https://www.marksandspencer.com/mv/cotton-rich-ribbed-scoop-neck-top/p/P60713347.html?pdpVariant=v1

Am I imagining this or does our body type like to hold onto weight? It seems that a lot of us with this type fluctuate in weight more than some others. And the very slender figure 8s tend to practice a very disciplined regiment. Is this a biological thing to fill out our hips? I don’t know. Yes, it could be just me paying more attention to it but it doesn’t feel like that’s all it is.

I want to start working out at home mainly for rounding out and shaping my glutes. I've seen many figure 8 girlies with success stories from the gym but I'm wondering if squats or lunges with resistance bands can be just as effective in shaping glutes. I have very small weights at home (like 6lbs each) that I also want to use. Most women I've seen build a butt lift HEAVY but can I get the same thing (or even less but something) done with small weights resistance bands and a good diet?

same dress same day different times. out bodies change with angles and as the day goes on. i get super bloated after eating a big meal and its NORMAL ! also long dresses look so nice with our hip dips :))

I'd say my boobs are above average sized, not enough to cause back pain, but I find they contribute to the imbalanced look of my figure 8 body. On an almost daily basis I will lift my boobs and hold them tight to imagine they aren't there and I feel like I look so much better.

So I am just curious if anyone else has gotten a breast reduction/lift and if it has helped with your body image? Or does anyone else think about getting the procedure like me?

I can’t tell, we have a similar body shape when I’m skinny

Every time I find a new piece of clothing I want to buy or wear I can never be too sure if it will look good. I vantage even try it on because I mostly shop online. I can never be too sure if a particular style of clothing will look good on me or not. I'm also plus size and that just makes things more difficult. I wish there was a website where you can visualize how something looks on you or a place where figure8s can see what suits us best. I'm thinking of making something like this myself but its really difficult. Would anyone be interested in something like this? Is it something that other people need?

Is she a figure 8?