How to look taller

Heels;
stick to one colour palette, the darker the better;
v neck tops;
slimming jeans/trousers;
blazers/long jackets;
fitted coats; fitted clothes;
short skirts and shorts.

mood wrote: »

I can't manage to get the colour palette right. Any tips? Photos/links would be great.

If you stick with monochromatic colours in one look that helps as there won't be contrasting colours that divide you up. But having said that, get yourself black skinny jeans and black boots/shoes and that will take care of a lot of it for you!

The high waisted bottoms are a great tip- you can get high waisted shorts which will make your legs look really long, esp if you wear with ankle shoes that have a low base and not a high shaft (top). Same stands for skirts- get nice high waisted short skirts and pair with ankle shoes/boots and you will get lots of height.

Do what you can to get yourself as toned as possible to accentuate your waist. If you carry any of that blubber on your sides it will only make your waist meet your hips more so and that won't do you any good!

Great work Mood, couldn't have found better examples myself!

Make sure and work with colours that suit your skin/hair, etc.. Some of those lighter toned outfits might have the opposite effect and wash you out if you're pale like me.

mood wrote: »

The problem is reds/pinks/blues suit me and I really wouldn't want to wear red head to toe! Any ideas how to get around this?

I can't wear those lighter tones either.

It's just going to mean a lot of work, lots of idea generation that you get from seeing what's in the stores and from trying stuff on.

Maybe start with bottoms- try on skinny jeans, shorts, and skirts (high waisted, etc.) and see what suits you. Then work off that and find tops and boots/shoes to work with them. You could try burgundy jeans or just get black skinny jeans and look for boots and tops and jackets to go with them. Black skinny jeans do make you look taller, esp coupled with medium high boots/shoes.

I've found H&M and Guess to have great fits for petite figures. Guess have awesome skinny jeans, and a really cool pair of leather look skinny trousers that don't look/cost cheap!

mood wrote: »

I have skinny jeans.

Getting the monochromatic look will be tough when bright colours suit me best!

You can do monochromatic with bright colours too, just not the washy type ones, like the light greys. Best of luck! I am in same boat as you and found that the only solution is to spend time in the shops and reading good style blogs to help with ideas.

See this blog for some ideas. The blogger is quite petite as you will see from photographs she posts up with style ideas and it's a nice little blog with ideas for make-up and hair as well.

www.dizzybrunette3.com

Get yourself good skinny black jeans, good boots to go with them, a nice cardie that goes past your hips, quite fitted but wear it loose, and get a nice top for inside. See how that looks for you for height.