How should you dress if you have short legs? Useful tips and tricks

As you know, there are no ugly women, just as there are no most beautiful and ideal ones. Each has its own uniqueness and advantages over other representatives of the fairer sex. But anyone, even the most beautiful girl, can have a flaw. It all depends on the ability to emphasize your winning sides, while skillfully hiding everything that causes embarrassment.

Unfortunately, not everyone can correctly identify their strengths and skillfully hide certain shortcomings. This leads to the fact that a woman does not reveal her full potential, and, as a result, does not feel complete confidence in her appearance. To get rid of all doubts about their facial features and figure, girls should determine what specifically does not suit them and think about how they can hide their small imperfections.

About painful issues

For example, many women are faced with the problem of disproportionate figure, complaining that their legs are short. At the same time, they take this for granted and disguise them as much as possible with incorrectly selected clothes, giving way and male attention to ladies with naturally long legs. It is worth understanding that girls with short legs can also, with a little more effort, visually lengthen them. Here are a few tips for choosing the right clothes, shoes and accessories. They work wonders, visually straightening the figure.

Selecting skirts

This item of clothing must first be present in the wardrobe if it seems that your legs are short. When choosing a skirt, you also need to take into account your build, because girls with more appetizing shapes and ladies with short ones will go in completely different styles. The common guidelines for the two options are:

Preference is for vertical cutouts and stripes.
Noble monochromatic colors.
Fabrics - cashmere, cotton, linen, denim, viscose materials.
Categorical refusal of frills sewn on the bottom of skirts.
Avoiding horizontal patterns and stripes.

Attention to detail is a guarantee of a successful image

Be selective with belts and waistbands: they should be non-bulky, match the color of the clothing, and thin. Wear brighter belts with high-waisted items; they will help shorten the torso and visually lengthen women's legs. Wide and decorated belts will immediately divide the figure in half and only expose all the imperfections.

Separately, I would like to talk about tights and stockings. On short legs, too bright, mesh and multi-colored tights will look ridiculous, because this will attract special attention to them. And the task of a woman with short legs is, on the contrary, to shift the emphasis from them. Therefore, it is optimal to wear socks, stockings and tights as follows: their color should be the same color as your shoes. If the shoes are black, then the tights should be the same. Flesh ones, accordingly, are worn with a light pair of shoes.

Options for plump legs

So, owners of plump legs should pay special attention in stores to:

strict pencil skirts with a maximum length to the knee;
classic also knee-length;
long with a wrap and large pleats (slightly asymmetrical in length), with a high waist;
maxi skirts (anything below the calves);
a high waist is also welcome.

Skirts for short slender legs

If, even with model parameters, your naturally short legs prevent you from feeling luxurious, then you can easily correct this situation. To do this, you should adopt the following types of skirts:

straight or pencil - knee-length and high-waisted;
with arrows;
skirts with a small peplum;
smoothly flared to the floor;
with a wrap, sitting on the waist;
Mini length is allowed, but with a high waistband and in combination with a matching top with long sleeves.

At the same time, in both cases it is necessary to avoid so-called tulips, as well as models with flounces, frills, bows and ruffles, as they visually widen the hips. Trapezoidal and bell-shaped models should also be set aside. It is better not to consider mini and 7/8 lengths, but to lean on the classic samples to the knee, to the floor. Say absolutely no to low-rise skirts if you don’t want short legs to be made even shorter. Half-sun or yoke skirts will be appropriate only if they are high-waisted, not fluffy, and strictly knee-length. But in any case, they look less advantageous on a plump figure.

Choice of trousers

Both chubby and thin ladies who complain that their legs are short should invest in the right trousers. This piece of clothing always magically corrects all the problems of crooked, thin, fat, short or too short. In particular, short legs allow you to elongate trousers that fasten at the waist, while low-rise trousers will aggravate the situation. Everyone, without exception, will go with classic arrows, especially if they cover them when worn with heels. For colors, stick to black and dark shades.

The ideal option is to purchase a striped suit in a formal style: the vertical lines will stretch your legs several times, and a jacket with the same print will smoothly extend their length. The strip, however, should not sharply contrast with the background color or be too wide.

If your figure allows, feel free to wear skinny pants or jeans. The latter, in turn, like shorts, buy exclusively with a high waist, otherwise you risk appearing even shorter. Various breeches and capris and short women's legs are incompatible things. Such outfits flatter your figure even more. But a jumpsuit, on the contrary, has the ability to correctly emphasize the proportions of the figure without highlighting anything unnecessary.

We choose the top wisely

It is logical that by shortening and raising the top item of clothing, you can make the bottom appear longer. In accordance with this truth, a girl with short legs will need cropped sweaters, blouses, and jackets. Well-chosen boleros and tops, blouses with loose sleeves (“lanterns”) with bright prints will distract attention from insufficiently long legs. The principle should work here: a bright light top and a simple, discreet bottom. There should not be any tunics in the wardrobe.

What outerwear to buy?

Even a properly put together look for a girl with not quite long legs can easily be ruined by the wrong outerwear. Then all efforts to get rid of this deficiency will be in vain. Therefore, it is worth familiarizing yourself with a couple of tips on choosing jackets, coats, raincoats, etc.

Length - neither mini nor maxi, the most suitable - just below the knee
Items of outerwear with a belt are more welcome than items with or without a zipper.
Discreet, strict colors. Items that are monochromatic and with a minimum of decor in the form of rhinestones, stripes, and drawings are best suited. Classics are always considered fashionable.
We focus not on the colors of the outer garment, but play with accessories. For example, we use a bright silk scarf, handkerchief, interesting handbag, umbrella or gloves to match the boots to complement the look.

Properly purchased shoes - 50% success

She plays, perhaps, a key role in solving the problem of short legs. After all, the heel most effectively contributes to their lengthening. It remains to determine which models you need to focus on, and which ones you will have to abandon for the sake of a perfect image.

So, shoes must meet the following characteristics:

Round and neat nose. Unfortunately, classic pumps with a pointed toe, due to their elongation, look impressive only on long-legged ladies.
The optimal heel height is 7-10 cm. Heels of shorter length make the bottom heavier and sometimes, with their absurdity, spoil the overall impression of the image. High heels are the lot of those with thin, albeit short, legs. And overweight ladies are advised to have a pair of shoes with stable, thick, but high heels, with which a luxurious appearance and male attention are guaranteed.

Shoes with wedges, rocks, and various insteps will never go out of fashion. Firstly, they instantly solve the problem of short legs, and, secondly, they give comfort to the legs and airiness and charm to the image.
No matter how elegant the strappy shoes may be, they will do a disservice to a woman whose feet are a little shorter than the accepted norm. An alternative could be maximally open shoes of the same color with tights, made in a classic style.
Both ankle boots and ankle boots have a tendency to shorten legs. There is no need to despair, because you can always choose sophisticated, close-fitting knee-length boots with a stable heel.

Platform boots are also guaranteed to lengthen your legs. However, when choosing them, you should follow the color restrictions: after all, models in dark (black, blue, brown, burgundy) colors look good on any, albeit slightly short, female legs. But with light and flashy shades you can make a mistake.
In addition, it is not recommended to choose platform boots with all kinds of applications, rivets, rhinestones, because with them the “long leg effect” loses its effect.
As for such a category of shoes as over the knee boots, you need to forget about their existence if your goal is to visually lengthen rather than shorten your legs.