9 Tips to make your waist look thinner

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A thin waist can be created with the right clothes and accessories. We tell you about 9 ways to visually slim your waist and show you how it works, using the example of the celebrities.
08/06/2022
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What helps to make the waist thinner

A thin waist makes the figure more feminine and graceful, adds curves to the body and brings the figure closer to the hourglass type. If you did not get a naturally thin waist - it is not a reason to worry, because it is easy to make it thinner with a few simple style tricks.

Ways to make your waist look thinner:

  1. Pants and skirts with a high fit;
  2. New look style skirts;
  3. Belt at the waist;
  4. Stripe print;
  5. V-neck;
  6. Black top - White bottom;
  7. Wrap dress;
  8. Clothing with cutouts at the waist;
  9. Evening dresses with inserts.

In addition to 9 ways, corsets and corrective underwear can also help create a narrow waist. These methods are not recommended on a permanent basis, since overstretching the waist leads to a disruption of blood flow.

Pants and skirts with a high fit

Clothing with a high fit is an effective way to visually reduce the waist. Due to the accent created by the belt it looks narrower and more emphasized, and brings the silhouette closer to the hourglass body type.

Jessica Alba high-waisted pants

Jessica Alba

With a high waist can be any option for the bottom:

  • Jeans and pants;
  • Skirts;
  • Shorts.

Allowed and fashionable jumpsuits, in which the belt is placed not at the level of the hips, but above.

Cameron Diaz in a high-rise jumpsuit

Cameron Diaz

New look skirts

Christian Dior knew exactly how to visually correct a figure with clothes. He invented the new look skirt - a flared sun skirt with a high waistline.

Rooney Mara in a new-look skirt

Rooney Mara

Due to the volume in the lower part of the figure, the top looks more elegant, and high rise emphasizes the waist, making it visually slim.

Giovanna Battaglia in Dior new look skirt

Giovanna Battaglia

The length of the skirt can be anything - just below the knee, as Dior willed, or shorter.

Belt at the waist

Another way to tighten the waist without a corset is to use a belt. Place the accessory at the narrowest part of the torso and not a centimeter above or below. Straying from this rule, you will get the opposite effect - an enlarged waist and lack of curves. The belt helps to fit things around the figure and not let them blur the waist.

Miranda Kerr belt with a dress

Miranda Kerr

It is important that this method is suitable only for those girls who have a waist and want to highlight it. If you do not have a waist - look at other ways.

Keira Knightley belted dress

Keira Knightley

The width of the strap also matters. If you have a small belly, give preference to thin and medium straps. If there is no belly, you can use any strap, including a very wide one.

Stripe print

To accentuate the waist and hide the belly will help a striped print. It can be a vertical stripe - it will additionally make you visually taller, or diagonal. Stripes on the abdomen and waist create the illusion of slimness.

A striped shirt makes you look slimmer Alexa Chung

Alexa Chung

Dress with diagonal stripes Victoria Justice

Victoria Justice

But it is better to avoid horizontal lines in the upper part of the figure - they will make the waist wider and emphasize the bulky belly.

V-neck

V-necklines on dresses, blouses and tops are great for girls who have beautiful breasts, but the waist is not as thin as needed.

V-neckline makes slimmer Olivia Palermo

Olivia Palermo

V-neck works on two sides: it diverts attention from the waist, shifting it to the chest, and makes the waist visually thinner by narrowing the vertical.

V-neck dress Reese Witherspoon

Reese Witherspoon

Black top - white bottom

The reverse color combination is a chic option for girls who like or have to dress in black and white. The place where the black top clashes with the white bottom will become visually thinner.

It is important that the method will only work if the bottom will be with high rise.

Cameron Diaz black top - white bottom

Cameron Diaz

If you have wide hips and narrow shoulders, as in a pear body shape, change the colors in places - wear white on top and black at bottom. A white blouse or top will visually widen your shoulders, and pants will hide your hips - the image will be more proportional and balanced, and will be complemented with a beautiful hollow waist.

Milla Jovovich white top - black bottom

Milla Jovovich

Wrap dress

The style of the wrap dresses we have already considered when discussing how to hide the belly with clothes and now we come back to it again. In addition to visually masking the volume, the diagonal line created by the dress also effectively reduces the waist.

Blake Lively the wrap dress creates a diagonal line

Blake Lively

We advise to try this method to girls with the apple type of body - to get a toned belly and a beautiful waist zone.

Diane von Furstenberg in wrap dress on the catwalk

Diane von Furstenberg

Clothes with cutouts at the waist

Sometimes fashion designers also offer effective ways to visually correct your figure. Their recently introduced trend of cuts at the waist or ribs is a great way to make this part visually slimmer and more graceful.

Dress with cutouts at the waist Charlotte Gainsbourg

Charlotte Gainsbourg

The trick is that a place that is not limited by clothing looks visually narrower. Dresses, tops, T-shirts and tunics with slits are a salvation when it's hot outside and you still need to make your waist narrow.

Chloe Lecareux dress with side cutouts

Chloe Lecareux

Evening dresses with side inserts

A dress with contrasting inserts on the sides will help to make a narrow waist. This example will work for everyday dresses, but more often this method is used by designers of evening dresses. Thanks to the contrast inserts, the front part of the dress becomes visually slimmer, and behind it visually narrows the entire figure.

Kate Winslet in dress with side inserts

Kate Winslet

Such dresses will help to emphasize the waist and make the silhouette much more elegant.

General tips to help make your waist slim

It is equally easy to make the waist thinner with clothes, and, conversely, to expand it.

To avoid mishaps and not make your waist wider than it is, stick to 5 simple tips:

  1. Give up straight-cut clothes. Straight dresses, jackets, blouses - all this hides the waistline and makes the top of the figure rectangular;

    Straight cut dress

    Straight cut dress

  2. Don't wear your shirts and T-shirts loose. Leaving them on top of the waistband of pants or skirts erases the waist. The best way to narrow or emphasize curves is to tuck the blouse into the waistband. The same goes for shirts, which can also be fashionably tied under the chest, adding an accent;
  3. Don't wear several layers of thick clothing. This is especially true for winter and autumn looks, when the weather calls for warmth. Multilayered bow of a thick sweater, cardigan and eco-coat is better than a less heavy image of a cashmere pullover and a wool coat worn over it. These outfits give about the same warmth, but the second looks more elegant and does not spoil the figure;

    Multilayered look

    Multilayered look

  4. Use dense fabrics. If you need to emphasize your waist and hide your belly, choose clothes made of thick cotton, denim, linen. Lightweight satin or silk will emphasize all the flaws and add volume;
  5. Do not wear tight-fitting outfits. A close-fitting knit dress or turtleneck will highlight all the contours of your figure, and if there is no waist, it will be obvious. If you need to wear something tight, use one or more of the techniques from the list above - this will help to offset the lack of tight clothes.

Q&A

How to emphasize the waist if there is no waist?

If there is no waist at all - this is common with rectangular body shape, as well as with apple body type, try not to emphasize the waist, and create it. New look skirts, wrap dresses and contrasting clothes for the top and bottom will help.

Belts in this case it is better to refuse - they will not help to create a waist, and only emphasize its absence.

How to hide the lack of a waist?

Wear contrasting things top and bottom, choose voluminous skirts, use stripe prints - all this will help to make waist feminine and beautiful.

What style of dress to wear if there is no waist?

In addition to the already mentioned wrap dress, also use fashionable in this season dress-shirt and A-silhouette.

How to hide a large belly?

Wear things with vertical stripes, choose long dangling jewelry and dresses with a zipper.

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