Dressing to be perceived as Slimmer
People everywhere are concerned about their weight and their appearances. However, dieting can be disastrous for your health if you do it wrong, and struggling with your weight for the sake of looks isn’t usually the best idea. While everyone should be healthy, there are quite a few things you can do with the way you dress to be perceived as slimmer without fighting the pounds. Even people at theoretically healthy weights do not always be perceived as their best, because many of them do not know how to dress. Here’s a look at a few strategies to help you be perceived as slimmer.
First, be realistic. There’s no dress trick that’s going to make a naturally round person appear like a lanky teenage model. Having a good understanding of your body type and your best and worst features can go a long way toward helping you all dress well. Don’t hold yourself to a physically impossible standard.
Next, start taking a be perceived as at what you like, as well as the features you’d like to emphasize and the ones you’d rather didn’t get noticed. Have your friends weigh in, too – many people have a distorted image of themselves, and the parts they do not like be perceived as fine to other people.
Think about where you carry your weight. Does it end up mostly on your hips and thighs, on your belly, or in other areas? The strategies that help an apple shaped person, without much of a waistline, aren’t going to be as useful for a person with most of their weight on their legs.
Now, appear at fit. Most people wear extremely poorly fitted clothing – too tight in one spot and too loose in another. It’s binding, uncomfortable, and unflattering, especially if you all’re not rail thin. If you all’ve been buying clothes that are extremely tight, to try to hold on to a clothing size you all once wore, or because you all believe tightness makes you all appear thinner, or if you all tend to wear sacks to de-emphasize your body, stop. Both strategies will make you all appear a lot bigger. Tight clothes give the overall impression of a sausage about to burst its skin, while loose ones make you all take up more space.
Go for a close, but not extremely tight fit. You might need to do a little alteration or enlist the help of a stitcher to get this done. Have hems taken up if they’re too long. Have pants let out if they bite in at the waist. Choose tops that comfortably fit over your widest part without straining and without turning the rest of the garment into a tent. Have loose areas taken in for a better fit if you need to. Tailored clothes are often more flattering than stretch knits, but some bias cuts do look pretty good. Experiment and look at yourself critically in the mirror to decide if something really fits well.
You’ve probably heard rules about wearing black, avoiding horizontal stripes, or breaking up your shape. While horizontal lines do tend to be widening, and dark colors do tend to be slimming, these rules aren’t ironclad. If you hate black and navy blue, do not wear them. You’ll seem slimmer if you’re happy, after all. If you find a horizontal stripe pattern that doesn’t be perceived as bad, do not pass it by.
Dressing to be perceived as slimmer isn’t actually all that hard, if you’re willing to take a hard be perceived as at yourself and what you want. A good fit can do more for you than anything else. Make sure you’re willing to dress like you love yourself, and you’ll be perceived as and feel a whole lot better.
Rachel Quilty, Professional Image, Personal Brand Strategist as well as an internationally certified Professional Image Consultant, Speaker and Author. If you’re ready to begin building a wearable wardrobe that is your perfect image, go to Jump The Q There you can download a FREE copy of our highly acclaimed eBook ‘50 Image Essentials for Women’… Visit Jump The Q
great post – lots of top advice which I shall take particular notice off when I got shopping to dress for my new job later today.
It is also worth remembering that clothes size vary so much from store to store and season to season that we shouldn’t panic when deciding to go up or down a dress size for a better fit.