Style lessons: how to hide leg imperfections?

Every woman wants to have long, slender legs, because from time immemorial, women's legs have been a symbol of female sexual attractiveness. However, nature has not endowed all women with ideally shaped legs. With the onset of spring and summer, this problem becomes especially relevant for some representatives of the fair sex, because this is the time of short skirts, elegant dresses and romantic sundresses of various cuts. How to dress correctly, what styles and colors of clothes to choose in order to not only hide leg flaws, but also emphasize your femininity and impeccable taste - this will be discussed in this article.

The main problem types of legs are described below; for each type we will try to choose the best clothing options:

Full legs.
Legs too thin.
Short legs.
Crooked legs (including O-shaped, U-shaped, X-shaped legs).

Full legs

Trousers

The best way to hide full legs long skirts and loose trousers. But if your hips are very full or you are short, then wide trousers will not work; they will make your hips visually even more massive.

However, if you have full legs, you can also afford capris, the main thing is that the tights and the color of the shoes are the same, in order to visually lengthen the leg. Jeans are also not prohibited, but you should choose a straight, classic cut and dark colored jeans. If you are a fan of leggings, then give preference to dark colors, without patterns or stripes.

Skirt

Better to wear straight or flared down the skirt. An A-line skirt makes your waist appear slimmer. A wide frill (ruffle) at the hem creates volume at the bottom, distracts attention and makes the waist appear thinner. A straight classic skirt will visually make your figure slimmer.

You can wear a knee-length skirt or even just above the knee. But don’t forget the main rule: to visually reduce the volume, you need to extend the length.

Therefore, with a skirt of this length, heeled shoes are appropriate. A skirt, shoes and tights of the same color or tone make your legs visually longer and slimmer.

Choose skirts whenever possible dark tones, they will make you look slimmer. But if you want to wear a light skirt, then choose tights in a neutral beige color. It is believed that warm tones make you look fat, while cool colors, on the contrary, make you look slim. So, cool shades of beige and brown are preferable for full legs.

Overweight women should not wear clothes with horizontal stripes. A narrow vertical small stripe makes the figure more toned.

Moreover, the more stripes, the slimmer you appear. Outfits with diagonal lines or patterns located diagonally look good. When choosing skirts and trousers, give preference to matte materials.

You should not wear tights with a large pattern or fishnet tights, as they especially visually increase the thickness of your legs. Also avoid thick knitted tights. However, in winter you will be decorated with thin wool knitted black or dark brown tights. It is better to wear shoes without heels with trousers, and skirts and dresses with heels.

Shoes

When choosing a shoe style for full legs, avoid unfavorable contrasts with your shoes. It is common knowledge that dark-colored items appear smaller than light-colored items. Accordingly, if you have massive calves, it is better to prefer light shoes with large details, thick heels, wedges or platforms.

Tight or tapered trousers and jeans are completely excluded.
It is better not to draw attention to your legs once again: do not wear short skirts, bright tights, tights with a large pattern or large mesh.
Avoid shoes with thin heels, narrow straps, or with miniature details.
Avoid skirts that are tapered at the bottom, as they further emphasize the disproportion of the lower figure and accentuate curvy hips.
Avoid clothes with horizontal stripes and checkered patterns.
Overweight women and girls are better off completely avoiding pockets on the buttocks. As a last resort, they should be located high enough and be practically invisible. Otherwise, such pockets will visually make the buttocks fuller.

Too skinny legs

But too thin legs with protruding knees make it impossible to wear short skirts and very tight trousers. But dresses and skirts loose fit- just for you.

The secret of too thin legs is that very often even anatomically straight legs with excessive thinness seem crooked. Therefore, when choosing a skirt or dress, adhere to the following rule: thin legs always look attractive in a length that barely covers the knee.

Choose tights light warm tones. It’s also as if tights with a pattern and made of thick fabric were invented specifically for such legs - only your legs won’t look elephantine in them.

By the way, a combination of clothes of different colors can easily emphasize your too thin legs, so try not to wear things that contrast with each other in color. Clothing for you also has its own tricks - combine tight-fitting clothing items with lush, volume-adding details.

Use maximum details in the hips and buttocks area, such as pockets, straps, appliqués, brooches, bows and others.

Various belts or their imitation look good on thin women and girls. When choosing the style of a skirt or dress, give preference to gathers, folds and draperies.

Things that look great on skinny legs horizontal stripes. Also use fabrics with diagonal checks or other large patterns, tweed, or boucle. Shiny and bouclé fabrics, corduroy, and reaper add volume well.

As for shoes, prefer graceful shoes with small volumes, dark colors, thin heels, narrow straps, and miniature details. But the platform should be very neat.

If you have too narrow hips with skinny legs, the deficiency can be easily corrected by wearing flared or pleated skirts, as well as jackets that reach the hip line. It also happens: skinny legs come with wide hips. Straight elegant trousers and skirts that will create beautiful lines of the figure will help here.

Try to remove short items from your wardrobe: miniskirts, short shorts.
Avoid massive shoes with wide platforms, large wedges, and thick square heels.
When choosing fabric, avoid fabrics with vertical tracks.
Your legs will be made even thinner by tight and long skirts with thigh-high slits, knitwear with relief, tight trousers and jeans.

Short legs

We measure the length

First, let's figure out exactly what length a woman's legs are considered to be proportional. It depends on your body type. There are three main body types: asthenic, normal and hypersthenic.

You can determine your affiliation by measuring the circumference of the wrist: for normosthenics it is 16-18.5 cm, for asthenics it is less than 16 cm, and for hypersthenics it is more than 18.5 cm. The length of the legs should be measured from the trochanteric point (this is the tubercle of the femur, located opposite the hip joint) to the floor.

For normasthenics, the proportional length of the legs is more than half the height by 4 - 6 cm, for asthenics - by 6 - 8 cm, for hypersthenics - by 2 - 4 cm. For example, if you have a normal body type and with a height of 168 cm, the length of the legs is 90 cm , then this is almost ideal (90-168/2=6).

In any case, you shouldn’t get too hung up on the numbers, the main thing is whether your legs look short visually, and this flaw can easily be corrected by choosing the right wardrobe.

Selecting a wardrobe

So, short legs will hide narrow styles and flowing fabrics. In this case, try not to emphasize the waistline at all. On the contrary, disguise it. Thus, you will not give the viewer the opportunity to visually assess the relationship of proportions between the top and bottom of your figure.

If you have short legs, it is better to choose ones that flare from the hips or just straight wide leg trousers. Such trousers hide the place where the buttocks meet the legs, which means they lengthen them. It’s good if the trousers, socks and shoes are the same color - such a composition visually lengthens the legs. Vertical lines along the legs will also add a visual effect of length.

If you wear trousers with heels, make sure that the trousers almost cover the heel, this will also lengthen your legs. Never tuck your blouse into your trousers or skirt, as this will visually shorten your legs.

Also, your figure will be adorned by flowing, one-piece dresses that do not have a belt, as well as dress styles that are widened towards the bottom. Long, high-waisted dresses will also look great, since empire-style dresses flare out from the chest line, which means they disguise the buttocks and legs. Dresses and tunics worn over trousers will hide short legs well.

When choosing skirts, it is best to focus on the length of the skirt just below the knee, since skirts of this length slightly reveal the graceful narrowing of the leg below the knee and leave the lower leg open, giving the opportunity to see the most beautiful part of the leg. Half-calf skirts with high boots also look good with short legs, and the skirt and boots should be the same color; This composition visually lengthens the legs. If you are a fan of long skirts, be sure to wear them with high heels: at the same time, if the skirt is long enough and covers your legs, it will look like you have long legs, not high heels.

Another secret: wearing tights that match the color of your skirt will make your legs look longer.

As for the color scheme of your wardrobe, an outfit designed in one color or similar colors that combine with each other will suit you. Avoid bright contrasting combinations of the top and bottom of the outfit (for example, a white blouse combined with a dark skirt).

When choosing shoes, for obvious reasons, you should focus on models in heels or on a wedge.

Avoid cropped trousers and jeans, as trousers that end above the bone will visually shorten your legs even more.
It is not recommended to wear tight-fitting trousers and jeans-pipe, as they fit the legs very tightly, emphasizing all their imperfections.
It is also better not to wear high-waisted trousers; they visually lengthen your back and, accordingly, shorten your legs.
When choosing jeans, avoid models that are tapered or widened towards the bottom - in both the first and second cases, such jeans visually shorten your legs.
Also avoid tight dresses; they hug the buttocks and perfectly show where short legs begin.
We do not recommend wearing low-waisted skirts, as they visually lengthen your back and shorten your legs. The composition “long skirt with shoes without heels” is also very disadvantageous in your case; this combination also shortens your legs.

Crooked legs

There are “false” and “true” curvatures. True curvature occurs when the bones themselves are curvature - O-shaped and X-shaped legs. False curvature occurs due to insufficiently developed muscles of the lower leg or thigh, most often in thin girls. In this case, a gap between the legs in the shin area or at the top of the inner thigh is visually noticeable.

O-shaped

Skirts. If your legs are O-shaped, you should not wear tight pants or knee-length straight skirts. The best style of skirt in this case is the variants that widen down to the middle of the calf (godet style). Long maxi skirts will also suit you. As for models that reveal the knee, try to objectively assess how good you look in them. Stand freely and walk back and forth in front of the mirror. If, looking at yourself in the mirror as if you were a stranger, you notice that the curvature of your legs is very slight - feel free to wear skirts that widen towards the bottom just above the knee. But in fact, a girl with perfect legs has a lot more long skirts in her wardrobe, because she doesn’t think: “If I wear a long skirt, it means that I have crooked legs.”

Trousers and jeans. You should carefully consider the choice of jeans, since not all styles are able to hide the curvature of the legs. Bleached stripes on jeans, for example, visually distort the silhouette of the legs even more. The same can be said about “chewed” trousers. Ideal jeans should be straight or slightly flared at the bottom. Jeans should not be too long, because in this case they form folds at the bottom, and this highlights the curvature of the legs. But jeans with cuffs at the bottom, on the contrary, will suit you.

The ideal choice of trousers is straight trousers or trousers that are slightly flared from the knee.

The material of the trousers should be dense enough and hold its shape so that the curvature of the legs does not stand out when walking. Knee-length capris perfectly hide curvature of the legs and can be an alternative to skirts in the summer.

Tights and shoes. The color of tights is best black or black-brown; you can afford tights with a small abstract pattern without vertical stripes. Stripes on the front of boots and on tights will highlight all the imperfections, including the curvature of the legs. In general, you should choose boots with a wide top. Remember that any curvature of the legs is amazingly hidden by high boots, for example, over the knee boots.

In general, if you are unhappy with your feet, do not draw attention to them with bright, conspicuous shoes - this will make you feel more psychologically comfortable.

For the summer, it is recommended to purchase shoes and sandals of beige color, small volumes, as if merging with the foot. The same can be said about skirts - wear bright, catchy tops with simple skirts of simple styles and modest colors, so all the attention will be concentrated on your face, and no one will look closely and critically at your legs.

X-shape

Skirts. X-shaped legs are those that diverge in different directions from the knees. Such legs are not common, but if they are plump, they look good. And if you are thin, then it is advisable to wear a skirt and dresses below the knee length, give preference to a dark color and choose tights to match the skirt. In general, it is better for you to refrain from knee-length skirt styles that are tapered at the bottom; flared models that cover the knees look best with X-shaped legs. However, if the curvature is not too severe, you can choose a skirt that is slightly flared from the waist and reaches mid-thigh.

Trousers. If you have X-shaped legs, you can wear straight or wide trousers. But trousers and jeans that are flared from the knee are contraindicated, since bell-bottom trousers will further emphasize the defect. Jeans that follow the shape of your legs, or more precisely cigarettes, will also not suit you. When choosing fabric for trousers, remember a little trick: if the fabric is not plain, but with some pattern, this will also help make the curvature of the legs less noticeable.

And most importantly, try to make sure that all your restrictions do not become a burden to you, contrary to your wishes. Dress so that you are comfortable psychologically- this is extremely important. Only in this case will you feel confident in yourself and be able to carry yourself naturally and gracefully, which will certainly have the best effect on your appearance.

U-shaped

Let us repeat which legs are U-shaped. Sometimes due to insufficiently developed muscles of the lower leg or thigh, most often in thin girls there is a visually noticeable gap between the legs in the area of the lower legs or at the top on the inside of the thigh. This is a false curvature and can be easily corrected with exercise or diet. But in our article we will focus only on ways to disguise this kind of curvature of the legs with the help of clothing.

If the gap between the legs is at the top of the inner thigh, in this case it is better not to wear tight leggings or tights, as well as jeans. Pants that are flared from the hip or straight (closer to wide) are perfect. If you still want to wear skinny jeans and leggings, be sure to pair them with a long tunic.

If your legs are crooked below the knee, you should wear long skirts and sundresses to mask the defect. You'll want a length that covers the knee joint and where the bone curves outward.

The main rule for legs that are crooked from the knee is the following: such legs must be covered with a skirt so that the transition from normal to defect is invisible and disguised.

For curved legs, straight or pencil skirts are preferable rather than flared skirts, which can enhance the effect of curvature. If you have full, crooked legs at the bottom, you should choose a skirt length that reaches mid-calf. At this length, both the fullness and the presence of a defect are hidden.

When choosing trousers and jeans, give preference to models that flared from the knees: This style will hide the curvature of the legs at the bottom. If your legs are beautiful at the top, you can cover them and make them flare at the bottom. Straight or wide trousers will also help hide curvature below the knee.

Finally, I would like to give some simple tips on how to dress and carry yourself correctly in order to always look attractive and confident: no matter what shape your legs are, don’t focus only on your legs. Do not forget also about a straight back, straightened shoulders and a beautiful gait. Make sure your hair is styled, your nails are in order, and excess body hair is removed. These little things are part of beauty, because if this is not there, no beautiful clothes will save you. You should also not blindly follow fashion.

If you see that fashion is not on your side, purchase one or two new items from the new collection, successfully combine them with the items that you have and that suit you. And most importantly, smile more often, a smile disguises our external flaws better than any outfit!!!