7 stylist tips to visually lengthen your legs and shed a few pounds

7 stylist tips to visually lengthen your legs and shed a few pounds

Let’s analyze the mistakes that shorten them and the possibilities to create optical illusions.

Clothing is a tool that allows you to show yourself, your individuality. But it also helps to make adjustments, to veil something and present it in the best way. the most frequent female request is visual weight loss.

We also often want to work with proportions: to lengthen legs, narrow hips and/or waist. In fact, it’s all interconnected. By directing fashion efforts to elongate our legs, we automatically lose weight. How does it all work?

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Let me say right off the bat that it pays to look at things realistically. Even the most elaborate cut and the right print can’t turn an XL into an XS. You can’t stretch your legs to Irina Shayk’s parameters with any initial data either. But here we must also take into account the fact that sometimes women themselves spoil good parameters by illiterate design. How to avoid fatal mistakes and improve what can be improved?

What visually shortens the legs

1. Contrasting shoes and tights in color (ortucked in jeans/pants). This cuts the verticality of your legs, cutting off cherished centimeters.

2. Low fitting pants and skirts. Remove things from your closet whose waist is offset at the hips. It is also better to get rid of pants with low step seam and skirts (or wide pants) with large patch pockets on the sides. Such models add volume to the hips, making the figure squat and heavy. The length of the legs automatically suffers.

Low fit jeans and plenty of horizontals – lapels, contrast in color

3. an abundance of horizontals. Don’t cut yourself. How do you realize you are doing this? For example, a short jacket of one color and a mini skirt of another in tandem create two approximately equal squares, which visually expand the silhouette. If tights and shoes contrast in color (between themselves and with the rest of the things), you get the effect of a “child’s pyramid”. Horizontals expand you, shorten the growth and break the proportions.

How to make them longer

1. Wear low things with a high fit. It’s about skirts, pants. In this case, it is important that there was a free cut from the hip and an emphasis on the waist. Such models truly work wonders. Legs seem infinite, and the figure – more slender.

Let the waist be where it should be.

2. Think through the play of proportions. A cropped top not only goes well with a midi skirt or flyaway pants, but also visually adds length to the legs. A pleasant bonus – hips also look slimmer. There is only one “but” – this option is not suitable if the tummy is very prominent.

3. Match your tights to the tone of your shoes. In summer, wear flesh-colored shoes. Legs visually elongate due to the match with the color of shoes. We get a continuous vertical line.

Let the shoes merge with your feet in color

4- Use the right prints. They will work to create an optical illusion, correcting the proportions of the figure and creating the right accents. For our task – to visually lengthen legs – vertical prints are ideal. And it’s not always just stripes. There can be smoother lines, but with a vertical orientation. Even slightly diagonal ones will do the trick.

A stripe is a vertical that pulls out

As a lyrical digression, I will note that all these methods will not work if your gait is heavy. And vice versa – if it always stays flying, you may not need any additional tricks. People around you will only see your virtues.