• Wide-leg or boot-cut pants or jeans: The wider bottoms help even out your middle and bottom proportions.
• Rounded, flapless back pockets: These give your rear a nice cherry or apple shape.
• Back pockets with embroidery or details: Look for embroidery that is high and not too wide. You want the eye to look vertically up and down, not across horizontally. The shape of the embroidery can focus the eye inward.
• Skirts with ruching or seams: Ruching in the middle of the butt or skirts with centre back seams narrow your backside.
• Vertical stripes: Pinstripes or other vertical patterns on skirts, pants, or longer tunic tops help elongate the look of the butt.
• High-rise pants and jeans: The higher rise emphasizes the waist, not just the booty, and elongates that area instead of widening it.
• Long, narrow skirts and dresses: These longer bottoms help lengthen the body and detract the focus from your backside.
• Bermuda and capri shorts: Longer shorts help lengthen your look, bringing less attention to the bum area.
If you think you have a wide butt, don't wear:
• Short, wide back pockets: These only make your butt look wider, instead or narrowing it. Wide backside + wide pockets = fashion don't.
• Wide back-pocket embroidery: The horizontal designs accentuate the width of your derriere. Look for narrower, vertical embroidery instead.
• Low rises: Pants or skirts with lower rises can make you look compact and wide since there's no focus on your smaller waist. Remember to accentuate your best assets.
• Miniskirts and short shorts: Short skirts, especially minis, and very short shorts can make you look boxy from the back.
• Horizontal stripes: Wearing these only emphasize your width.
If you feel you have a narrow butt, do wear:
• Lower-rise jeans, pants, and skirts: The lower rise gives the illusion of a wider derriere.
• Belted jackets or blouses: Longer jackets and blouses that hit below the butt cheeks can add more width and shape to your lower half. Paige's tip: These look particularly good when belted, giving you an A-line shape on the bottom.
• Back pockets with horizontal detailing: Look for embroidery or insignias that are more horizontal in design to broaden your booty.
• Miniskirts and short shorts: The shorter, boxier lines help broaden the backside.
If you feel you have a narrow butt, don't wear:
• Vertical stripes: Try to stay away from vertical stripes, like pinstripes, across your booty, because the verticality makes you look narrower.
• Long pockets: Pockets that are too long and skinny on your backside just lend a narrower, not fuller, look in general.
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Excerpted from Your Perfect Fit, copyright 2008 by Paige Adams-Geller and Ashley Borden. Excerpted with permission from McGraw-Hill. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced except with permission in writing from the publisher.
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