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Body Matrix Grids - How to Combine width shape and length | Members Newsletter

How do you start to combine your narrowness with your roundness, or width and short lines when they seem to contradict? I have created three grids to better understand the body matrix categories

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Ellie-Jean Royden
Jul 28, 2025
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‘How do I dress for narrow and round together - they seem to contradict?’ ‘I can’t figure out how to dress for wide and short lines’ ‘Straight shapes with width don’t make sense to me’

I get a variation of one of these questions daily, and it got me thinking - what if I could separate the different body matrix categories to show how they interact with each other, one-on-one. In other words, what if I could show how narrowness and roundness interact without length getting in the way - and so on.

I came up with a system of grids to do exactly this. You can navigate the three grids (shape / width ; length / width ; shape / length) below:

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