Hip dips are a normal anatomical feature caused by the space between pelvic bones that has become a focus of body scrutiny on social media; the article explains what they are and whether they can or should be changed.

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Hip dips are having a moment. The perfectly normal indentations that sit below your hips on the outer thigh have become the latest body feature to be scrutinised, fixed and agonised over on social media. But what are they? Can you actually get rid of them? And should you even try?
Formally known as the trochanteric depression, hip dips exist in both men and women and are simply the visible result of the space between two bones – part of the pelvis called the iliac crest a