I love stripes! I love them for my kids (e.g. Petit Bateau), but I also love them for myself! All too often when I choose a t-shirt or even tights (or many other things) if I just followed my impulse I would buy stripes. But then I think about the number one “rule” about horizontal stripes: they do not make you look slimmer…
Apparently this is all wrong, and some scientists have done tests and experiments to prove it: vertical stripes make you look fatter than horizontal ones.
Yet it does not say that stripes (at any angle) are slimming… so if what you need is to look your thinnest, the only safe thing to do is to just wear black!
-Michela
Comments (2)
Yep. I see the point!
How great that scientists nowadays research how girls can look slimmer!! 😉
Having said that, I must say that Cameron Diaz still looks quite slim – even with the vertical stripes!!
I think it must also depend on the colors. In the photo above, the girl on the right may look bigger because she’s wearing white! While the girl on the left is wearing darker colors!
Like you said- when in doubt, just wear black!!