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Visual correction of the female figure, regardless of the type of defect, is based on 5 basic principles. Once you understand them, you will be able to confidently compose harmonious images that emphasize the advantages.
These 5 rules are the basis for most of the techniques that we will use to visually change the body and visual correction of the figure.
Of course, dresses, jackets and pants are not all-powerful. They will not help to radically change the figure, height, leg length or slimness of the arms, but they still cope with part of the problem.
What visual changes can be made to the figure with the help of clothes:
We are talking only about visual changes to figure! 🙂
Next we'll look at each of the effects separately, but first a few important nuances to consider.
Types of female figures - apple, pear, hourglass, triangle, rectangle
Now let's dive in technics and how-to's!
Insufficiently expressive waist is a problem faced by girls with almost all body types. The only exception to the list would be "pear" - there it is the waist that determines the silhouette.
To make your waist tighter and more expressive, use one way:
If you choose a wide pants or skirt for the image, the waist will be visually thinner. Think of women of the 19th century, when they wore dresses with puffed skirts - against a voluminous bottom the waist seemed unnaturally narrow. Of course, corsets played a role then, but even without their participation against a voluminous bottom the waist will be visually thinner.
Christopher Esber
What to wear:
Bora Aksu
If by nature you have narrow shoulders, together with a voluminous bottom wear things that expand the shoulder zone: tops, blouses and jackets with shoulder pads. Extended top and bottom will highlight the waist and bring the silhouette to an hourglass.
The belt is suitable for girls who have a natural waist, but want to make it more expressive. We recommend to refuse this method if you have a rectangular figure.
Brandon Maxwell
To make the method work:
When choosing a belt, give preference to laconic, simple belts - without extra trimmings, pendants, chains. The ideal choice is a leather black or brown belt 2-3 cm wide.
T-shirts, blouses, tops, pullovers, cardigans and jackets with a V-shape due to the smooth taper downwards, create a vertical. This gives the illusion of a thinner waist and a fragile top. In addition, such a neckline hides the tummy and makes the top less massive.
Chanel
For this method is suitable any top - from blouses and tops to outerwear - coats, trench coats. It is better if the thing will be monochrome and without decorations.
A white top and black bottom is not only part of the formal dress code, but also a great way to get slimmer in the waist area. At the intersection of contrasting colors creates an accent, which visually makes the waist thinner.
Figure correction color will succeed only if you choose the correct bottom - it is important that the transition of color occurs just at the waist, so the skirt or pants are chosen only with an overstated landing.
If you have a massive top and narrow bottom, as in the type of inverted triangle, swap colors - top use a black top and bottom - white pants or skirt.
This method of correction with clothes works just like the previous one - at the place where the top goes to the bottom an accent is created, which hides a wide waist. Take into account that when choosing bottoms it is necessary to look at the physique - with voluminous thighs and tummy do not choose bottoms made of light satin or silk, and with a lack of volume at the bottom - dense fabrics.
There are several ways to become visually taller and slimmer. The most common and working ones:
Due to the high fit of the pants increases the length of the product itself, which subconsciously makes a woman visually taller and slimmer, and also perfectly emphasizes and lengthens legs. In addition, high fit creates an accent at the waist.
To visually correct the figure fit pants:
You can hide flaws with clothes by composing an outfit in the same color. Such total looks create the illusion of infinity, because the transition between the body and legs is erased. Also - they create color verticality, and vertical lines are the best way to make a woman taller and slimmer.
Kiton
Be careful when choosing colors - some of them even as part of a monochrome bow can make you look fat, and therefore will not help increase your height. We in the Dress editorial recommend choosing black, blue-green, blue, purple.
Add shorter shirts, tops, cardigans and jackets to your closet - cropped clothes are on trend right now, and they also do an excellent job of elongating the silhouette. The trick is that due to the raised bottom line it seems that the legs end higher.
Depending on the weather and style of dress, choose shortened ones:
Alberta Ferretti
Another way to correct a silhouette with the help of color is shoes to the tone of the pants. This blurs the border of the transition, makes the legs longer and the girl, respectively, taller. This method will add a few centimeters to you, and if you choose shoes with a heel - you can win even more.
Make your hips wider and add volume to them will help:
The easiest way to visually correct the figure and add appetizing volume to the hips is to add to your everyday or business capsule appropriate bottoms.
It can be:
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Choose a simple top - monochrome and without design, especially if you have broad shoulders. An overstuffed top will make your figure look bulky.
The closet of girls with a triangular type of figure, who just lack the volume in the hips, perfectly fit things with low-rise - skirts and pants. Do not worry about the relevance of the outfit - low waist is back on the list of trends.
Dolce & Gabbana
Low fit creates a favorable contrast between the top and bottom, making the hips and buttocks visually fuller. Note that it is recommended to wear pants and skirts with low waist if there is no sides and tummy.
Miu Miu
Empire dresses, with an accent under the chest extend from the waist and hide the boundaries of the hips. From the side the silhouette looks smoother and more voluminous - the narrow hips are not highlighted, but hidden behind a loose cut. Example - fashionable sundresses.
Take into account that the empire style dress also hides the waist, so visually wider it will be and.
Girls with inexpressive buttocks and hips are among the few who can afford a skirt with an active print - for example, a popular leopard print, small or large flowers, horizontal lines. All prints, with the exception of vertical stripes, make a visually wider and bulkier.
Bright colors also work, especially from the warm range - orange, yellow. Choose pants or a skirt of saturated shade, combine it with a simple blouse of basic color and you will get a great corrective bow to increase the volume in the hips.
Some girls, especially with the pear shape type, want to hide the volume in the thigh area. The recommendations here are exactly the opposite of what we gave in the previous section.
Clothing to visually reduce the volume of the thighs should be:
Try to wear quiet things at bottom that don't attract attention. Bright colors, including the currently fashionable neon, are not the best solution. The task of the bottom is to be inconspicuous.
J.Crew
To pair with a calm bottom pick up a bright blouse, use expressive accessories.
Hips should be invisible, that is why complicated cutting, draperies, pleats, embroideries are taboo, if you want to balance a massive bottom and make it narrower.
A-silhouette and trapeze models are suitable for this type of dress - they will hide the border of your hips, depriving others of the opportunity to estimate their volume.
Choose pants and jeans from dense materials - they will lift your hips and make them less expressive. Simple straight pants are appropriate, as well as models of men's cut.
J.Crew
Popular skirts and dresses with a bass, pants with patch pockets, jeans with embroidery - all this will not do. The optimal version of the bottom is a thing with no decor at all.
For the bottom choose either plain dark things, or clothes with vertical stripes - it will help to visually correct the figure and make it slimmer. The stripe is a great solution for plump women who want to hide extra, in their opinion, pounds.
Vertical stripes visually elongate and slim
If you feel like your neck is disproportionately short, try changing your closet capsule approach.
Tricks to visually extend your neck:
V-cutout in the neckline area is a great helper. First, it opens the neck and does not accentuate the border, as it does, for example, a saddle neckline. Secondly it creates an elongating vertical which narrows the waist, masks the abdomen and makes the neck longer.
V-neckline visually stretches the neck
As the top choose T-shirts and tops with a V-neck, dresses with a scoop - layering the shelves of the dress also creates the right form of cleavage, as well as jackets with lapels.
In this case it is important that the vertical stripe runs from the open neck towards the middle of the belt. You can create such a vertical line with a print, such as a jacket or a T-shirt with a vertical stripe, or by layering the garment.
One option is to leave the jacket unbuttoned, the distance between the strips of which will just create a straight vertical line in the center. The same technique can be used with cardigans, shirts, as well as outerwear - coats, trench coats.
Burberry
Create verticals by constructive lines, i.e. stitching on the sleeves, shelves, as well as darts in the chest area. The lines along which the garment is sewn stretch not only the neck, but also the figure as a whole.
When choosing fashionable jewelry, pay attention to long pendants on thin chains, as well as dangling earrings.
Vertical earrings visually stretch the neck
This simple trick visibly lengthens the neck and, as a bonus, participates in hiding the belly.
Wide shoulders is an atypical characteristic of the female figure and is found in the case of the inverted triangle figure type. Girls with broad shoulders and narrow hips in order to create an ideal figure it is important not only to narrow the top, but also to increase the bottom. Refer to the tips in this section, as well as from "Increase the hips" when creating looks.
Making shoulders narrower will help:
Widening sleeves is the most underrated technique in clothing, although it does a great job of reducing the shoulders. It is important that the top is along the arm and shoulder and extends to the end of the sleeve, so no flashlights or wings.
Widening sleeves visually reduce shoulders
Most often widening sleeves are found in dresses, shirts and blouses, and the method itself is suitable for street style images.
Shirt with wide sleeves reduces the shoulders
Correction of broad shoulders with clothes implies a complete rejection of T-shirts, blouses, sweaters with voluminous decorations. Pockets, jabots, collars with ruffles, patches a la epaulettes - all these details only increase the massiveness of the shoulder area.
Simple top to reduce shoulders
Look out for tops devoid of any reinforcements and be especially careful with shoulder pads.
Tight tops, longsleeves and turtlenecks are the worst enemy of girls who want to hide the contour of broad shoulders. Tight clothes emphasize the boundaries, and thus make it obvious that the top is much wider than the bottom. The exception - layered images: turtleneck with a jacket, longsleeve with an oversize shirt, top with a cardigan.
The layered look reduces the shoulders
Look more advantageous things will be free or straight cut, but in total oversize is also better not to go - shifted line of the shoulder seams will not play into the hands.
An asymmetrical cut of a top, shirt or dress breaks proportions and visually deprives the shoulders of width. It can be a one-strap tank top, a one-sleeve shirt, a sweater with slits on one shoulder - in general, anything that avant-garde designers can think of.
Asymmetrical top reduces shoulders
Covering the neck with a high collar, you make your shoulders even more massive and draw attention to them. To make the top look visually narrower, use things with a triangular or U-shaped neckline.
The cutout visually makes the shoulders narrower
Unsuccessful option would be a boat neckline and a square neckline - they visually expand.
In addition to the most obvious way - to choose a bra with a push-up effect, you can visually increase the chest with the help of the right clothes.
To draw attention to your breasts, to make them visually larger will help:
Things with horizontal stripes are suitable for girls with a petite top and small breasts - such is found in the type of a pear shape. Horizontal line, created by the print, visually expands and enlarges, making the chest visually larger.
The horizontal stripe visually enlarges the breasts - Brandon Maxwell
Active, bright prints - from leopard to large flowers - work in a similar way. But, as with the horizontal stripe, this trick is appropriate with a petite top and not too broad shoulders.
Applied pockets on the chest add volume to it without increasing the width of the shoulder area and without interfering with the contour of the waist. This method is almost universal - no matter what type of body type you have, patch pockets will help to visually increase the chest in any case.
It is a well-known fact that light-colored clothing is visually fuller, which in the case of small breasts is only an advantage. Give preference to tops, blouses and shirts of warm white color - milky, for example, or white-beige.
Max Mara
Correctly choose clothes to lengthen the legs can be based on tips from the section Increase height - there we dealt with how to become visually taller - wear shoes to match the tone of the pants, choose a high fit and short tops.
Paul Smith
There are more specific ways:
We've touched on the issue of verticals many times before, but more often on the top. Now let's move downstairs - verticals are great for stretching out your legs. It doesn't matter if you choose jeans with stripes on the side seam or fully striped pants - both things are equally successful in lengthening the legs.
Emporio Armani
This same technique is advised to use for girls who want to kill two birds with one stone - to make legs longer and thighs slimmer.
A flawless and almost universal option to visually make your legs longer is an asymmetric cut skirt. You can choose any style and any type of fabric - here it is better to be guided by your physique. Chubby girls will suit asymmetric skirts of thick material, thin - of light and flowing.
Giambattista Valli
Preferably, the asymmetry does not touch the back and front of the piece, as in the mullet skirt, but creates avant-garde hints in the front or on the side.
Beige pumps to lengthen the legs - a method as old as the world, but still working. The bottom line is to choose shoes that will match your skin tone. In the fall, when it is cool outside, it is acceptable to wear tights, but only close to the color of your legs. Tights that are too shiny and can be seen from afar will ruin the whole lengthening effect.
The belly and flanks are a common problem for women with the apple figure type.
How to hide extra pounds in the flanks and abdomen with clothes:
If you want to hide something, distract attention from it. Hide flaws with clothes you can use the method of contrast - draw attention to another part of the body and against its background belly and sides will be insignificant and not stand out.
But note that it is important not just to shift the attention, but to emphasize the advantages, that is, to choose the part of the figure that is not ashamed to show. Each girl has her own - her breasts, shoulders, collarbones, ankles, wrists.
Diagonal lines, no matter whether they are structural or artificially created, shift the accents and break the proportions a little. As a result, the belly and sides become less noticeable, but the beautiful breasts stand out perfectly.
How to create a diagonal:
Hide the belly and flanks with clothing will succeed if you choose things you will take into account their fit, length, silhouette features.
Salvatore Ferragamo
J.Crew
And there they go again - the verticals. They are indispensable for correcting a full figure, including when working with the tummy and flanks. Any variation of vertical lines will do, from those formed by sewing stitches to those created by layering clothes.
J.Crew
3 ways to create a slimming vertical line:
How to hide fullness with clothes?
Look at A-silhouette dresses, empire-style models. Pants with a high waistline will come to the rescue. In the case of a full figure, it is recommended to work point by point, that is, to mask the parts that seem to be deficiencies.
What dress hides body flaws?
A-silhouette is a win-win for any body type. Shirt dresses and trapeze dresses are also universal. These styles help to add volume where it is lacking and not to accentuate the already prominent parts.
What to wear if you have broad shoulders and large breasts?
Take a look at the recommendations from the section "Reduce shoulders" - they are also relevant for girls with large busts. In brief, avoid any decor above the waist, look for loose or straight cut clothes and use asymmetry.
The only thing to avoid if the broad shoulders are combined with a large chest - expanding sleeves.
What kind of clothes to wear if there is no waist?
The one that creates it:) Make your hips and shoulders visually wider - the waist will seem chiseled against them. Consider pants and skirts with a high fit, and choose the top with a V-neck.
How to hide your figure in summer?
Even if you think that your figure is far from ideal - it's not a reason to hide behind clothes from head to toe. Determine which parts of the body you do not like - usually there are no more than 1-2, and act with the help of the methods described above. You can correct the peculiarities even with light clothing - you just need to choose the right cut, style and color.
How to hide narrow shoulders?
The most obvious and simple way is with sleeves. These are both lanterns and popular nowadays airy sleeves on tops and blouses. You can also use a top with voluminous trim - embroidery, ruffles, "epaulettes" and bright prints. When choosing a neckline, pay attention to the boat neckline and square neckline.
What kind of dress style is suitable for a short stature?
When choosing a dress for short girls to pay attention not to the style - you can choose any. The determining factor will be the length - suit a mini just above the knee or a maxi, as well as the print - suitable small or medium, as well as vertical stripes. The neckline - preferably a V-shape. Well, the decor on the dress should be to a minimum, otherwise the image will be stumpy and bulky.
How to dress a full, short girl?
Choose clothes with a semi-fitted silhouette - not quite loose, but not tight. It is acceptable to choose things with a print, but it should not be too active. Pants must be straight or narrowed to the bottom, skirts must be pencil or pleated. Voluminous decor, embroidery and patches should be avoided.
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