One thing I noticed, though, is your recommendation of yoke sweaters. I understand the principle, but with yokes you also have to keep in mind that it’s a bold, curvy shape right at your shoulders. This works great if your shoulders are a little boxy (not meaning wide, but the shade of them itself) and the two qualities even each other out. However, if one has rounder shoulders, yokes will just accentuate that and your shoulders seem to disappear entirely.

I would love to knit and wear bright yokes but I just can’t.

However, I’ve tried to solve this my adapting yoke patterns into a set-in sleeve. This way I get a defining line for my shoulder, so that they look a little more defined and less round and also the widening effect that takes attention away from my bottom.

I am, I admit, still trying to work out what kind of shape I have, that’s how backward I am when it comes to visually understanding this kind of thing.

Anyhow, off to read more.

I’m very interested in your comments on skirts, because I’ve just started the pink A-line skirt by Kim Kotary that was published in Vogue Summer 2006. And I have a bottom heavy frame, sigh. I’d already figured I’d need to eliminate the top stripe, which looks for all the world like it hits right at the widest point of the wearer’s backside. But I am wondering if the fabric (Koigu knitted on size 3 needles) would be “tight” enough not to cling, or if the use of a slip under the skirt would prevent said clinging and bagging, etc? This is my first skirt so the learning curve is a big one.