How To Create a Waist By Fooling The Eye

Has middle age spread resulted in your innards pushing your waist out into a box? Or maybe you were always just straight up and down? Either way there are a number of little tricks that can fool the eye into believing that it is seeing a sexy waistline.

The first step in the illusion is to let the eye see the outer lying areas such as the shoulders and boobs up top and the hips below. Just to scare you, it means that you want these to look bigger. So broaden your shoulders with boat necks, structured shoulders, v necklines etc. and broaden your hips with a full skirt or wide leg pant.This then allows your waist to appear smaller, because everything on the upside and the downside is larger.

Belts are an obvious device and can be worn higher like an empire line through the smallest part of the rib cage, cunningly re-interpreting it self as the natural waist line, or V belts are great, particularly if you are short waisted. Also wearing a belt off centre can work wonders too.

Some garments have built in shape such as structured jackets that have a nipped in waist, structured shoulders and seams that curve in at all the right spots – making life super easy. Other garments include the illusion in their print or the way the colour blocks are put together.More extreme measures can include wearing a corset, or a milder offering that is particularly useful for special occasion are control undies, essentially squeezing your innards back to where they used to be!

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By answering a few simple and fun questions about your general body shape (no tape measures required) Truly will then use the rules of proportion and perspective to select and present to you actual garments that will be flattering to you. Making it easy to head to the fitting room with garments that are Truly you log on now and check it out for yourself www.truly.co.nz

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