Summary: Elongate short legs by wearing matching shoes and stockings, short skirts and high heels. Make legs look visually longer by wearing fancier clothing with the help of this free video from a clothing designer about dressing for different body types.
Bruce Marshall is a clothing designer who has worked in Los Angeles and Miami for years. He has also worked for Nickelodeon as a stylist. Marshall planned the clothes for episodes of...read more
Let's face it, life can be arduous for women in today's high fashion, sleek, and sexy world. It is hard to keep up with the latest trends. Everyone can use information about what is in this season. Plus, all women like to discover new makeup techniques and hairstyles. This is the amusing world of makeovers. With a helping hand, learn how to transform an old look into something different and stunning. Though image does not mean everything, being presentable and personable can help someone score that date, land that job and build up confidence. In this free video series, find out some simple fashion advice for different body types. Let an experienced clothing designer demonstrate how to pick fashion for the classic hourglass shape. Curious how to make short legs look longer? Find out how to use color and style to elongate short legs. Also, discover how to hide weight by wearing specific fashions. So, take a moment, and learn to dress to impress today!
"Hi, I'm Bruce Marshall fashion designer an Emmy nominated costume designer here to give you some tips on how to elongate your legs if you have the short ones. Now, there's a few tricks to doing it and it's really quite simple and all you got to use is a little bit of common sense but the idea if you want to visually make your legs look longer is what you want to do is you want to extend it by using the same color. So, for instance, if you wear red hose, you wear red shoe because that will make your line extended. It will just for the eye, it will just make it look like your leg goes on and the same if you have a black shoe, you use a black stocking and it's the same thing. It makes your leg look that much longer. Also, the second trick is you wear something shorter. So, if you have a shorter shirt, than you usually would wear and you have black leggings or black stockings that are long and you have a black shoe, the visual effect will still be the same. Your legs will appear to be longer. You can also do the same thing if you stack a heel up that's a little bit you know higher than you would normally wear. So, if you wear usually like a two inch heel, you might want to take it up to three inches. It's a little higher but still you won't feel like you know a jolly green giant for say but it will still look pretty good and very, very long."
eHow Article: How to Dress to Elongate Short Legs
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