Fashion tricks to look taller and visually lengthen your legs

If you belong to the club of the short or the slightly short legged like me, don’t worry about that, you can styling tips which I am going to give you today to gain a few inches and visually lengthen your legs, and attention! You will certainly like to know that heels are not necessary to achieve this. Take note!

The first and easiest trick is: unite the color of your look† By using color strategically, we can show off a more stylized and slender figure. Choosing the same shade and wearing it from head to toe has an immediate slimming effect. Which makes you look slimmer.

I recommend that if you want to wear a single color, you wisely mix different fabrics together. For example: jeans with a silk blouse combined with a tweed cardigan. If you’re wearing a unicolor (and especially if you’re doing it with all-black), always try to leave at least one square inch of your skin uncovered.

This trick has a very clear explanation, and it’s that any change of color you add to your look creates a visual cut that subtracts the height from your body at the same time. Using the same tone will give you the opposite effect, stylizing your body and adding visual height to your silhouette.

Another “tip” regarding clothing that will help us make our legs look longer and thereby visually appear longer is: wear medium or high pants and skirts† In addition to being much flattering in every way, the feeling of height is greater by starting higher than usual.

On the contrary, all of us who have short legs or who are short must (who threatens to return) forget about low trousers or skirts. The low waist has the opposite effect and instead of adding height, it subtracts it and flattens our legs.

Another very simple but very effective technique, which I myself use on a daily basis and I’m sure many of you do too, is to tuck the top part into the pants. That is, introduce a piece of the front of the shirt, shirt, in the pants or skirt, the famous, French Tuck, it’s a little touch that allows us to emphasize the waistline, helps highlight our silhouette, give our legs more visual length and that makes us look bigger. On the contrary, when we wear the top outside the pants and especially if the color of the top is different, we achieve the opposite effect, by shortening our legs and our silhouette.

Besides, the validity of the French Tuck is not only limited to shirts or t-shirts, luckily it also works for sweaters or sweatshirts†

There is a world beyond heels for short girls. Choosing shoes with a combination of a V-shaped neckline on the instep, along with a pointed toe, is the key to the success of many looks to style our figure.

If you resort to heart attack heels, it is clear that you will look much bigger, but if you do not want to endure the suffering of high heels, then choosing these models is the best option.

And instead we would avoid high platform shoes† Despite the height they give, they spoil the proportions and shorten the legs. Mary Jane-esque shoes, with an ankle strap, also shorten the legs.

And to wrap up, I’ll give you the golden rule that you should always keep in mind when getting dressed: your body should always follow the 40%-60% ratio. When you get dressed, you must see one 40% length for the top and 60% for the bottomie, you have to see more legs than body and in this way you optically lengthen your legs and your height. If you maintain a ratio of 50-50 or 60-40, your figure will shrink, and so will your legs!