Beautiful blue dress, very happy with this purchase. As others have noted it is cut for more of a V-shaped woman, since I am more evenly proportioned I will need to have it altered a little bit- however this will be a go-to dress and I prefer to have my wardrobe staples altered so they are perfect (most off the rack clothes don't fit absolutely perfectly anyways). I think this dress would require extensive altering for a pear shape, they may want to order a size up to make sure it fits in the hips and then take it in to have it fitted to them. No regrets with this purchase.