HORIZONTAL stripes on clothing make us look THINNER than supposedly flattering vertical ones, new research has shown.It lays waste to the old wives tale spread by fashion pundits that bigger people must avoid side-to-side lines.
In tests run by a university’s psychology department, people were asked to compare more than 200 pairs of pictures of women in striped dresses.
They found that when two women were the same size, the one wearing horizontal stripes appeared thinner to the viewer.
And to make the women appear the same, the one wearing a “hooped” design had to be six per cent wider than the other.
Perception expert Peter Thompson, who led the University of York study, said yesterday:
“Horizontal stripes don’t make you look fat. The one wearing the vertical stripes looks wider.”
He added:
“Horizontal stripes, if anything, make you look thinner.”
But he had good news for fans of another commonly-held belief tip — black really IS slimming.
He said:
“Wearing black is a good thing.”
THE Sun’s Fashion Editor Erica Davies writes:
“This means rugby shirts and French-style stripey T-shirts have been given the style go-ahead — but I still won’t be going horizontal.
"Can we really trust the fashion advice of scientists famous for wearing corduroy trousers and frumpy jumpers?”
http://www.thesun.co.uk/
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