Stripes

It is a common perception that a dress with vertical stripes made someone appear wider while horizontal stripes are making us look taller and narrower accordingly.

However, a group of UK scientist decided to test the time-honored fashion adage that vertical stripes are slimming (while horizontal stripes are less flattering) -- and the results were truly bizarre. Apparently you can forget everything you thought you knew about dressing thin, because -- at least according to science -- the exact opposite is true.

The Psychology Department at the University of York showed study participants 200 sets of pictures, in which models wore dresses with both horizontal and vertical stripes. Researchers discovered that women wearing vertical stripes appeared to be a full six percent wider than their horizontally-clad counterparts.

Big stripes also got.

But are there any clothes that do help people to look slim?

Wearing black is a good thing. We know that works because we know that a black circle on a white background looks smaller than a white circle on a black background.

Wearing plain black is what you want to do – with a few horizontal stripes.

Neither stripes nor blacks

can help her.