How to Dress if You Are Tall

If, for some reason, you'd prefer to downplay rather than embrace your height, follow these quick tips to "shorten" your look.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Men's Dress Shirts
• Men's Dress Sweater
• Mens' Dress Pants
• Sweaters
• Women's Dress Pants
• Women's Dress Shirts
• Women's Dress Shoes
• Women's Dress Sweater
• Women's Sandals
• Sweaters
• dresses and skirts

1. Try wearing a longer top to help visually shorten your legs.

2. Wear pants with cuffs to ground and truncate your legs.

3. Choose horizontal stripes over vertical ones; avoid pinstripes, for example, which will elongate your figure.

4. Mix light and dark shades. Pairing a dark shirt with light pants, or vice versa, will shorten your body.

5. Put on flat, rather than heeled, shoes.

Tips & Warnings

• Pick clothes that have larger details ' wide lapels, buttons and other features. Delicate details such as small collars will make the body look large by contrast.
• Avoid dressing all in one color, which enhances height.

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[Jekyll]

on 12/5/2008 And I've never tried to make myself look shorter. I don't see the point in that.

[Jekyll]

on 12/5/2008 I'm 6'6" 240 and my biggest problem is finding clothes that fit and are somewhat stylish. I'm athleticly built, but most of the stuff I find is for obese tall people, and most of the designers that make "in style" clothes, don't make them in extra-tall sizes.

[rose1331]

on 6/9/2008 I just replied to another article on this website, basically, my boyfriend used to look awful in his clothes because hes so big! but we found some brands and a website that carries them and he looks like a normal person again! heres the website we found and like so far,

http://www.torrebigandtall.com/index.asp
Its called Torre Big and Tall, we figured out that they have an actual store in Philly.

[sexy6footer]

on 10/19/2007 I am also 6ft and I wear heels almost every day, 4inch heels to be exact. When I was younger I hated my height because kids use to tease me but now I am a sexy 6 footer who loves being tall so don't be ashamed and all the girls in school that was considered fine and got all the guys are now fat. Tall women can hide their weight better and we look so much better in our clothes. So stand up straight, put on those heels and work it ladies.

on 11/22/2005 Not all tall people need try to look shorter. Who says that average is best, or that one should try and dress to hide one's height? It feels great to tower over people, you get respect!