Let's look at this wonderful picture with three girls. We see that they are all the same height. And in this case it does not matter whether they are equally high or equally low. It is important that they are perceived by us in different ways. And plays a role in this matter - the proportions, namely - the ratio of the length of the legs in the overall growth.
To create a visual image, two lines are important to us: the line of the supposed waist and the groin line (the point where the legs start from). I specifically and deliberately do not take into account the femur (although often the length of the legs is measured from it). Because in life, when you are in clothes - nobody's eyes will cling to the beginning of the femur, because they simply will not see this point. But these lines will see or unknowingly mark for themselves.
Once again I want to emphasize an important nuance: trying to visually become higher is almost a hopeless task. Well, the photo can still turn out. But in real life, specifically you will not add growth to yourself. Much more important for a girl of small stature is to create the illusion of longer legs. That is why it will seem higher including. Do not be afraid that the lack of heels or a certain length of the skirt or pants will make your legs shorter. We extend the legs primarily at the top point - in the groin and waist.
Here is a simple example with cropped trousers. Women with short legs should never wear a low waist. But if the waist is in place or even slightly overestimated - then visually the waist line on the clothes will mask the fact that the legs start significantly lower, but in fact there is a body under the pants. (somehow clumsily formulated, but I hope that is understandable). At the same time, I want to say that for short girls with long legs there is one limitation: they should not raise their waist too high. Otherwise, on the background of short stature, excessively long legs can be perceived disproportionately. For girls with medium and high growth, this rule does not necessarily follow.
So, we raised the waist line in the pants, but we still had a groin. Which in trousers of this type does not disguise in any way. So, we need some kind of distracting maneuver. And we will carry out this maneuver with the help of a long cardigan. As a result, we still have a visible waistline, two vertical lines created by the cardigan floors. The groin area is visible, but it seems to be relegated to the background. And the dynamics will not be very noticeable. (I want to note that cardigans are always suitable for this role of “distractor”. But all sorts of elongated jackets, frock coats, coats and other hard pieces of clothing are far from always. But they will be lower.)
Sometimes wide trousers in which the groin line is almost not noticeable can become a lifesaver. Width plays in our favor: flared from the hip, wide leg. But afghanis and other “harem” silhouettes are not suitable for this role, because there the groin line is understated and this is evident. The groin line should be as inconspicuous as possible. By the way, those culottes, about which everyone so lamented that it is not suitable for low ones, with proper width will look perfect. The coolest thing, of course, is when the width is combined with a high heel and a length that closes this heel almost completely. Here the legs will seem much longer.
There is a similar principle with dresses. But only with dresses it is even simpler: the groin lines are not visible at all, which means that only the waistline works. For women with short legs, it is recommended to slightly raise the waist. Not necessarily directly under the chest, in the spirit of Natasha Rostova's dress. It is not even necessary that the waist was detachable. Just visually, the main bend of the front should be slightly higher than the natural waistline. Best of all, this trick works on free silhouette dresses. If we are talking about cases, then we must carefully monitor that there are tucks for the chest in place and that there is still enough freedom in the hips. Otherwise, just dress will look bad sitting.
The skirts are the same: the groin area is hidden. But the length of the skirt plays a role. It is believed that the average length "conceals" the length. In fact, it seems to me, the opposite is true. The longer the skirt, the better. First, a short skirt looks visually like a square (and sometimes as a lying rectangle), which does not add any height or length to the legs. But a longer skirt looks like a vertical rectangle, and therefore the whole image pulls vertically. Well, even a short skirt with a certain shape of the legs shows the place where the line of the hips expands. Therefore, it shows us where the groin line will actually be. And we do not need this. We create the illusion that under the skirt our legs are long and endlessly go up almost to the waist :)) (I note that in this and the following pictures all the painted young ladies are the same - I took one template of a girl with short legs).
If you overestimate the waist line a little - it becomes even better, even with a short skirt.
The effect of the cardigan will help us here. Just because we do not need to mask the groin line, then the length of the cardigan should be different.
A few words about the length of the midi, which is so afraid of low ladies. Not the skirt itself “cuts” the legs, but a combination with the rest of the clothes. With such a length is very important shoes and tights. The closer they are to the color of the skirt, the better. And in general, shoes in tune with tights or nude in tone of bare skin - a technique that does not hurt anyone.
Separately, I want to talk about heels and platform. If they are too massive, in most cases they will not increase your height. Just you will look like a short man in huge shoes.
Generally, heels are a dangerous thing, especially if it is a tapered pin down and your hips are full. It is best to choose a wide heel that will visually continue the line of the foot.
Well, in conclusion, a few words not only about "lengthening the legs." With short stature jackets are very important. They often play a bad joke with their owners. In those cases when a jacket is formal in size, it often turns out that it is otshit on medium height. So, it does not sit well on a short girl. Therefore, finding a good jacket is difficult. If you still like jackets and want to wear them - choose short options. It is important that the shoulder line and darts be in place. And the length of the sleeve did not close the beginning of the brush. As in the first picture. Alas, it often happens that with a general good fit, the sleeves are long and the shoulder is lowered, this immediately “nails” you down and it seems as if you were wearing a jacket from someone else’s shoulder. Jackets slightly elongated with a rectangular silhouette is also not very well suited for a short girl, because they close such an important, as we already understood, waistline.
Well, the last remark about the coat. Double-breasted coats (picture on the left) are often found, but they make smaller girls wider and squat. Silhouette-cocoon (picture on the right) looks cool, but in fact moves down a wide area of the coat, which means it visually lowers the line of the hips, but we don’t need it. The best choice is a straight coat to the knee, single-breasted, better with a hidden clasp. It may be slightly fitted to the cut, but the waist should not be pronounced (belt or cut-off cut).
In general, this is all that was enough for the time being of my artistic abilities. Write, did you like the format of such a post with visual pictures? Was the information helpful?
