For so long, I always bought long shirts to hide my stomach. I've always been an apple shape, particularly when I was at my biggest. One thing I've learned in my countless Goodwill shopping trips since I started losing is that, this style in no longer my friend, since I am short. In fact, it probably never was.
I watch What Not to Wear a lot and have sort of absorbed the knowledge that long tops on a short person like me just makes me look shorter. It was one thing to see it on tv, but seeing it in action has really been amazing to me. The right top can easily make me look 10-15 lbs lighter.
What's funny is I still gravitate to those style shirts, and have to try them on every single time to learn yet again that, this look does not work for me. It's a form of the body image distortion I guess, but mine is all clothes. I have to make myself try things on that ordinarily I would just reject then it turns out they look so much better!
Two things Stacey and Clinton always say on the show that really resonate with me are "Dress the body you have, not the one you want" and "Let the clothes do some of the work for you" (meaning things like darts, fitted jackets etc). While I'm having so much fun rediscovering the fun of style, I'm kinda mad at myself that all this time, I've been making myself look even bigger than I was!
Anyone else having clothing epiphanies?
