Little Black Dresses for Every Body Type
The perfect little black dress for a smaller frame elongates and flatters like this stretch satin dress (Buy Direct.) More flattery: look for a dress with a lot of shape — here it has a V-neck and horizontal seaming — and is scaled just right for your figure. Avoid too-cutesy looks (like puffed sleeves) so you won’t look little girlish.
You don’t need to hide your upper body in a little black dress if you have wide shoulders. Instead, look for body-balancing details like the trendy asymmetrical neckline, like this 
one-shoulder style (Buy Direct) Avoid puffy sleeves or voluminous tops paired with slim bottoms that will exaggerate your shoulder width.
Disguise a thick waist in a little black dress by either raising, lowering or eliminating the waistline. This shift works by skimming the body without defining the waist. (Buy Direct). A drop-waist dress, which hits somewhere around the hipbones, or empire waist dresses which have a raised waist are other good choices.
