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Dressing a tall figure

Here are some tips to eliminate the stress behind dressing a tall figure by balancing height.

Clothes: Longer tops visually shorten your legs as do cuffed pants.  Wear skirts that are a medium length and have a slight flare. Showing too much leg makes you look taller and a long skirt or dress gives your body length. Tuck in your shirt or wear a wide belt over your top at the waist. Long jackets make you look FABULOUS.

Patterns: Choose horizontal stripes over vertical ones; avoid pinstripes, for example, which will elongate your figure.

Color: Mix light and dark shades. Pairing a dark shirt with light pants, or vice versa, will shorten your body.

Shoes: Flats will obviously keep you at your current height, however don’t deprive yourself of fashion, choose lower heels that you love and wear them with confidence.

DO pick clothes that have larger details ‘ wide lapels, buttons and other features. Delicate details make the body look large by contrast.

DON’T dress all in one color, which enhances height.

Remember, hold your head up high, put your shoulders back and walk with dignity.

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 17th, 2008 at 1:41 am and is filed under Color, coats, fashion tips. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “Dressing a tall figure”

  1. Ali Says:
    July 17th, 2008 at 6:16 pm

    thanks for the tips! very helpful!

  2. Ali Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 6:03 pm

    Christa~
    How often do you get in new clothing products?

  3. Alice@LTS Says:
    July 21st, 2008 at 8:40 am

    Hi

    You have some great tips for tall dressing!

    I work for a company called Long Tall Sally (http://www.longtallsally.com) and we specialise in clothing and footwear for tall women. Our motto is celebrate your height- who wouldn’t want to have the stature of a supermodel?!

    Shopping can be a frustrating business when you don’t fit into the “standardl” zones of height and size. That’s why we specialise in clothes for women 5’7” or above (or an inside leg from 34” to 38″) and offer sizes 10-20.

    Working for a specialist tall retailer, I’ve also come across a couple of websites which have links to lots of resources which might help you taller girls out there:

    http://www.longtallsally.com,
    http://www.extratall.co.uk,
    http://tallorder.typepad.com/home/,
    http://www.uniquelywoman.co.uk,
    http://www.tallclothingmall.com,
    http://www.heightsite.com.

    I hope this helps

    Alice
    (LTS)

  4. Denice Says:
    July 21st, 2008 at 9:24 am

    I am a tall gal, and I have always found it difficult to dress myself in the current trends and styles. Thanks for the tips!

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