{"id":2243,"date":"2011-01-03T20:46:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T00:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/blog\/?p=2243"},"modified":"2025-04-08T21:48:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T01:48:21","slug":"the-best-bridal-dress-shape-for-your-body-triangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/blog\/the-best-bridal-dress-shape-for-your-body-triangle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Bridal Dress Shape for your Body &#8211; Triangle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This shape is opposite to the pear shape. You will have wide shoulders, yet your hips are slender and smaller. The key to flattering a triangle shape is to balance out the top and bottom halves of your body, so you should choose a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/wedding-dress\/beach-wedding-dresses.html\">simple wedding dress<\/a> to emphasize your bottom half to play down your wider top half.<\/p>\n<p>Opt to dresses with few details on the shoulders as they will highlight the shoulders. Simple sleeves are a good bet, as is a simple bodice. To balance out the two halves of your body, choose a full or slightly flared skirt with as few details on the bodice as possible. Triangle shapes are well suited to ball gowns as the full style skirt will create a balance between your upper and lower body. Sheath <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/wedding-dress\/unique-wedding-dresses.html\">unique dresses<\/a> are also a good bet.<\/p>\n<p>To tone down broad shoulders, a halter neck style is actually a good look as it draws the eye upwards and so narrows the shoulders. Strapless styles are also a good idea, but stay away from off-the-shoulder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/wedding-dress\/beach-wedding-dresses.html\">informal bridal gowns<\/a> as they do nothing but draw attention to the shoulders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This shape is opposite to the pear shape. You will have wide shoulders, yet your hips are slender and smaller. The key to flattering a triangle shape is to balance out the top and bottom halves of your body, so you should choose a simple wedding dress to emphasize your bottom half to play down your wider top half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,34],"class_list":["post-2243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wedding-dresses-guide","tag-beach-style-wedding-dresses","tag-unique-wedding-gown","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14707,"href":"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions\/14707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}