How to Look Taller & Slimmer – Outfit Ideas for Petites Ep. 5

[Music] hi guys today I want to talk about how to look taller and slimmer through three different outfits that I think are really appropriate for spring and summertime a lot of different types of clothing that I wear like dresses and fabrics like silk that I love to wear this time of year and also I wanted to do these outfits particularly in mind of what I would wear to feel at my very best for me I think that I struggle personally being 5 foot 1 to have clothes that if I buy them online or in the store it doesn't matter they always arrive at my door a little bit too long for me I'm 5 foot 1 and so I'm always having something at least a couple inches so today I want to kind of build out these outfits to look taller and slimmer something that can be especially challenging as a petite person and so I like to use these optical illusions and kind of techniques to build out outfits that really work for my own body style so let's get started right out of the box this outfit doesn't look like much it's just a tee like a v-neck and then some trousers that look to be kind of frumpy and too long on me so I want to tweak this to really make it work I chose a v-neck because a v-neck is going to show a little bit more skin here anytime you can work with an inverted triangle it's going to emphasize that I've got more of a longer torso here I naturally have a longer torso and shorter legs but I'm going to be emphasizing a little bit of my torso too just to kind of balance out all the work that I'm doing on my bottom half right away I'm going to tuck in my top and you can see that these pants are high-waisted I think they're around like a 13 or 14 inch rise which is sky-high if you feel like you personally have longer legs and a shorter torso you can still kind of look taller with a high-rise pant but I would suggest going with a mid rise and that'll do something really similar and benefit you in a similar way but for me a high-rise pant really works and what's great about this too is that it's striped is a vertical stripe and that has been one of the oldest tested ways to look taller so not only do these pants have a vertical stripe but they're also cinch right at the waist so that's gonna be a really big win for me because that's my natural slimmest point and then also I want to add some heels to this outfit that are going to do a few things here so one it's the same color tone as the pants and that's going to add this beautiful long line but the height of the heel obviously height of heel like heels are going to heighten me anyways but also the fact that they are the exact height that I need for these trousers is really important I got these trousers hemmed so be just the length that I need them to be anytime that you can go to the tailor and get clothes to fit you just right is a win in my book so what I want to do with the height of these pants what I want to aim for is hem them to the point where they're not dragging the ground but what I really don't want to happen is if they were to buckle at all we don't before I even put the heels on you can kind of see those pants buckle at the bottom and that's not what I want I want them to be this solid line I don't want them to look like bell-bottoms from scooby-doo like I want them to look long and lean as if I were wearing stilts underneath and you didn't know that's what I'm going for next I'm adding my gold jewelry it just adds so much class and elegance to any outfit it's going to make any outfit look like you spent more money on it and also there's another trick there it's using that inverted triangle to lengthen my torso here so that's intentional and wearing more longer necklaces will do that as well for my purse I'm using something very small and in the same color range with the rest of my outfit so it's nothing that is taking over or emphasizing too much of the purse because if I do that then it could make myself look much smaller than I naturally am and I'll go into that a little bit later for this outfit I decided to pull my hair back I think that it's fine to just have your hair out in front like I have it right now especially because I've got shorter hair right now and that works already to kind of lengthen your body if you're looking for a haircut that makes you look taller then having shorter hair works in that regard but pulling my hair back is going to expose more of my neck it's going to expose more skin which always helps and then it's going to keep that one line of color kind of continuing up so that that color range works with my skin tone and I want to use that to my advantage so altogether this outfit is doing a lot of different things right so I've got the inverted triangle up top on my torso with my necklaces and with the v-neck and even with the bra underneath a little bit kind of elevates that that line that I want to create I'm showing more skin because it's a tee I'm accentuating my slimmest point which is right here at my waist I'm cinching it I've got vertical stripes I've got pants that go almost to the ground of the shoes and the purse don't compete with that long line and I've got my hair pulled back so all of those things kind of work together in this outfit and I want to go ahead and move on to the next one so right away when you see this next outfit there's a lot going for it so it's monochrome that's a given and then also it's showing skin because I've got a tank on its gonna show my arms the pants are cropped up a little bit so that's going to expose more skin there that's another great length to for pants if you're not going to have them go all the way to the ground or almost to the ground then it's really good to crop them up and show more leg more ankle and that will accentuate more of the skin it'll make you look like oh my pants are just you know too short for these long legs that I have and to make up for how that long black line of this monochrome outfit is kind of broken up by having cropped pants I'm gonna wear a turtleneck with it so that turtleneck it extends that long black line and since body suits this is a bodysuit by the way are naturally tucked in then I can just keep moving and go straight into adding my jewelry and the jewelry with this outfit I have to say oh my gosh it's it's the first thing that you notice about the outfit is the jewelry it's so bright against the black color of the whole outfit and it just does amazing things for creating that long line and I really like the look of that so with this outfit again I just want to pull my hair back that's gonna expose more of what this shirt is really doing it's a turtleneck and I show that off so works really well for trying to expand that long line of color for shoes I want to try a few different things and just show you guys the difference the number one thing that I would reach into my closet for for shoes with an all-black outfit is like Oh naturally I'll just wear black heels with it and I like the look of that it's a good look and for some types of events it might really work but I want to kind of explain why I wouldn't do that and then show some other options for one thing it's going to break up that beautiful line of color so now I've got that beautiful line but then it stops goes straight to my skin tone and then back to the black and it's just kind of not working to kind of jump around in that way it's not continuing the line at all instead I want to switch to a nude shoe and if you followed along with this channel for a long you'll see in these shoes before I wear them with almost everything but I like the look of having something that matches my skin tone and in this case to their strappy they're showing a lot of my foot which just continues ever since my pants stopped you can see how it continues with my leg and my foot and the whole thing just flows and so that shoe is really accentuating that and I think it's a beautiful look and then finally for my purse choice I'm going with something that matches the outfit effortlessly it's a black person then it's got the gold elements that I'm wearing with my jewelry so that is really repeating all those elements but then what you don't see is that this strap is actually much longer on me than it normally comes so I've kind of knotted that inside the bag and now it's adjusted to where it falls on me like it would anyone else so altogether when you compare the before and after I'm happy with the way that this outfit came together there's a lot going on here with the repetition of the purse and the outfit that the Alpha is monochrome even though I've cropped up that length it's continued with having the turtleneck longer and then exposing that turtleneck by pulling my hair back those are all winds for trying to look taller for this final outfit I wanted to use elements that I love to wear this time of year so I'm wearing all silk and then also I'm wearing something that's like a flowy slip dress this is something that is really fun to wear it's almost dangerous on how short it is I wouldn't go any shorter than this and as far as skirt lengths are concerned I would never as a petite wear anything that is knee length so if you're gonna wear something above the knee I would say like mid thigh is a really good range this slip dress actually comes with adjustable straps so you can adjust it to where it kind of works for you and then with this outfit it's not monochrome so I want to work with this a little bit differently than I did in the past so you probably know what the next tip is gonna be I'm gonna add my jewelry that is going to make this outfit in particular looks much less childlike and more grown-up and sophisticated I love the look of jewelry with this outfit so with an outfit like this I could totally see myself wearing flats just because it's a nice little summary outfit and I might not be doing something that requires dress shoes I might want to wear something really laid-back like a flat and that's totally fine so I'm gonna start with some black flats so you might notice that the colors are kind of mingled here so it doesn't really do any favors to my legs which by the way I did tan for a full day before taping this video and this is my tan but that's alright the dress and the shoes are really not making my legs look any more tan than they are and then also it's just not necessarily making my legs look longer because it just the color stops with my flat shoe here a Wayne about these shoes is that they are a pointed toe so I'm just gonna swap them out with the same type of shoe that's in a different color this is the skintone color version of this and right now I think they run a little bit darker than when I first bought these a year ago so because that dress is shorter now my legs look a lot longer just by making the shoes match my skin tone there's nothing stopping it it's just gonna go for miles and miles next I'm going to choose a purse that's really small and fun and flirty with this outfit but first I want to show an example of what it looks like to wear a large purse so in this case there are times when you need to bring a tote or a computer bag or maybe a diaper bag or whatever you got going on in your life at the time I mean that you're carrying more stuff but if you can get by with carrying less than definitely do it because especially for summertime it just looks so good to have a small bag and so that's what I'm doing today I'm just got this little very summery it's like a wristlet you know it's something that goes well with anything in this whole outfit together I just love the idea of it being more summery and beautiful and breezy casual but I still want to do one more little swap because this skirt is so much shorter I want my my legs to look longer so I will be using heels and I just think that heels not only give you that literal height but they're gonna emphasize beautiful things about your legs and that's what I'm really going for with this outfit one thing you'll notice is that I'm not pulling my hair back I think it's totally fine to wear your hair down sometimes and I like the look of having for this outfit having my hair down I think that that's fine because I'm not doing the trick of having monochrome you know with the other outfits I would make my outfits look sky high from top to bottom looking monochrome and long and lean but with this outfit it's more about what I'm doing with legs and purses and heels and the length of my skirt so all of those things are impacting this I think that the biggest impact is just the size of the purse was so different between having a large purse and having a small purse and altogether I hope that all three of these outfits kind of worked for you and for summertime and maybe they give you some outfit inspiration if nothing else but I hope they make you feel like you are at your best with your outfits and that's the goal with really all of my outfit style content and I hope that you like this video and subscribe and I will see you guys next time bye take my hand and I will lead the way [Music]

Channel: Dearly Bethany

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Length: 13min 7sec (787 seconds)

Published: Wed May 22 2019