Body shape and clothing fit
Fit is not style. Style is aesthetic identity; fit is compatibility between the garment, your body and your taste. We describe a silhouette through four axes of proportion — stature, torso-to-leg ratio, where the volume sits, and waist definition — and not through fruit: hourglass and pear label without predicting anything. Fit taste is declared across eight dimensions, from closeness to the body to sheerness. The rule that governs all of it: fit reorders what you see, it never hides.
Why we do not use hourglass, pear and triangle
Fruit names group very different bodies under the same label and say nothing about what to do. Two women classified as pear, one at 1.55 m and another at 1.75 m, need opposite lengths and waistlines. The label carries judgement and carries no prediction — the worst of both worlds. Axes of proportion do the opposite: they describe little and predict well.
The four axes
Stature: short, average or tall. Torso-to-leg ratio: long legs, balanced, or long torso. Where the volume sits: hips and thighs, bust and shoulders, midsection, evenly distributed, or no marked volume. Waist: defined or softly defined. Four questions, all about proportion, none about weight or dress size. The object being assessed is always the garment — what the clothes need to do for you — never the body.
Eight dimensions of taste, declared and not guessed
Closeness to the body, hemline length, neckline, shoulder and sleeve, sheerness, exposed midriff, trouser rise, and slit. Each allows three answers: love it, no strong feeling, never. Love it adds to the ranking; never is a hard filter and is the only thing that makes a piece disappear from your closet. Age stays out of the engine: it is a poor proxy for what actually matters — context, formality and limits of exposure — which those eight questions capture directly. No copy in the product will say for your age, and we never ask your weight, your dress size, or what you want to hide.
What the product does today
Fit preferences and the four silhouette axes are declared by you, are optional, and appear after your first style report, never during onboarding. You also declare the sizes you wear, and we read the size grid nine brands publish piece by piece: what is not cut in your size drops down the list and never disappears — a grid read a week ago is not proof of anything today. Garments carry shape attributes taken from what the brand itself declares in its catalogue — cut, length, sleeve, neckline, rise — complemented by image reading when the brand declares nothing. Learning your fit from what you save and dismiss happens only after you allow it, separately; what was inferred stays visible and can be erased one item at a time. What we do not do: we do not infer your body from a photo, and we do not ask your weight.
How do I find out my body shape?
The more useful question is not what your type is, but how your body distributes across four axes: stature, torso-to-leg ratio, where the volume sits, and whether the waist is defined. Those four facts predict what a garment will do; a fruit label does not.
Does the hourglass, pear and triangle classification work?
It works as quick vocabulary and fails as prediction. Very different bodies fall under the same label, and the label does not say which length, waist or neckline resolves the problem — which is the only thing that matters when getting dressed.
Does fit change my style profile?
No, and that is a design decision. If fit entered the style vector, a close-fitting piece would start to look less elegant than it is. Fit is a layer of its own that reorders the closet and never touches the seven archetypes.
Does La Lista infer my body from a photo?
No. The silhouette is declared by you, is optional, and can be deleted. We do not infer measurements or body shape from images.
If I say I never wear sheer, does the piece disappear?
It does, and that is the only case where it happens. Never is your veto and acts as a hard filter. Proportion rules — such as oversize and stature — only reorder: they change a piece's position and never hide it, because fashion breaks those rules on purpose half of the time.