Slimmin’ Down Without Losing a Pound
November 7, 2007 | Filed Under Womens Fashion
While fad diets speed by without any warning, it’s hard to figure out which diets are healthy, affordable, and most importantly - actually worth the time and effort. Here’s a nice loud “cheers” to those who are blessed with a good figure, good genes, or good eating and exercising habits.
For the rest of us, we’re always looking for tips to look slimmer while we’re trying to actually get slimmer. Want to know the good news? It’s simply a matter of what you wear. Here are some simple style tips, so you can look lighter - and feel better, too.
1) Wear dark colors or stick to monochromatic color schemes. Then, you can dress it up with some nice accessories - a colorful purse, a gorgeous necklace, a colorful and unbuttoned blouse, etc. Throwing in the blouse gives you some color so that you don’t feel dull and boring, and you can still wear bright colors you like. Also, wearing a pencil skirt that ends below the knees lengthens out your legs so they look much longer - and you look much lighter. Be sure it doesn’t end in the middle of the hips. This style doesn’t look good on anyone - even uber-skinny supermodels - and anyone who says otherwise is lying.
2) Wear tailored outfits. Clothes that accentuate your shape and follow your natural waistline will make you look much slimmer, especially if you add a bent - showing just how slim your waist is, and accentuates that slimness. The belt also draws in other’s eyes. Wearing big, baggy clothes doesn’t make you look better. My super-skinny sister does me a favor by wearing baggy clothes that don’t do anything for her, and as a result, we look about the same size, even though she’s much smaller than I am.
3) Don’t wear skinny jeans. They might be called “skinny” but it’s a misnomer. A better choice is a dark jean that makes you look slimmer. And don’t wear them too high, and don’t let them drag on the ground. In other words: buy pants that fit, and not pants that “are a little tight, but then I can wear them after I lose four or five pounds.”
Beyond those tips, all I can tell you is to wear something you like. If you don’t like it, it shows, and your discomfort and your dislike of what you’re wearing and your dislike of it will show, making you look worse. Wear something you love. Also, good posture - stomach in, shoulders back - makes you look slimmer and taller, too (and it’s also good on your back!).
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Excellent advice. First rule of fashion: wear something you actually like.
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