Help in Choosing the Right Style of Dress When Shopping

Most advice on buying clothes says to put your money into separates, because two or three tops and a couple of skirts and pants which all will interchange will give you a wider variety of looks. However, most of this advice applies only to slender people overlooking the way (a) skirts and tops of different colors chop short people in the middle, making them look six inches shorter, and (b) the horizontal line at the waist causes the eye to meander leisurely across just where, if you're overweight, you don't want any lingering glances. A dress, which is one unbroken line from top to bottom, is the most slimming garment made.

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