Many women almost cry when they find a beautiful dress on their local store but the only available print is horizontal stripes; it almost like a curse, nobody wishes horizontal stripes and … why?
Because their usually makes to see you wider and that’s absolutely unacceptable but … do you know what? You might enjoy that beautiful dress with horizontal stripes if you know some tricks about it.
Usually horizontal stripes makes to see wider because the eye focus on a printed element and moves aside from left to right (just like reading), scanning the whole pattern. That horizontal movement of the eye creates the illusion of being wider but, what if you are not able to focus on one single stripe?
Wide, solid color stripes are easy to focus on, and the above mentioned illusion is easily created but when you choose thinner stripes very close one to another, the effect is totally different.
While it’s almost impossible to focus on such tiny lines, the scanning pattern changes from side to side to up and down, your eyes will begin to find something to focus on, and during that scanning, the vertical movement will create the illusion of being longer instead of wider.
Another trick is to use fade colors; the effect is almost the same; it will be harder to your eyes to focus on one single, horizontal stripe and the scanning pattern will turn up and down.
Finally you may choose a combination of wide and thin stripes; even when that combination does not fit all kind of bodies, you may choose to use a wide stripe on an area to be enhanced (for example you wish to make your shoulders wider), while thin stripes are used only an area where the illusion of being longer is required.
Now you know how to play with stripes, it’s only a matter of practice and a good choice of patterns to wear stripes without looking wider.
Are you ready to try?
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