Experiment with high-waisted bottoms. Pants, skirts, and shorts that come up higher tend to sit at the smallest part of the waist and make this area look smaller. In contrast, a smaller waistline makes the bust and hips appear fuller, creating an hourglass figure. Try bootcut jeans or pants.

Charla: You should always make sure that everything on the larger half of your body is clean and simple. So someone who is top-heavy should opt for a fitted v-neck sweater or cardigan in a pretty but subtle color (i.e. no screaming red or neon). A bottom-heavy type should go for something like a dark pencil skirt.

10 Pieces of Advice That Can Help You Hide Your Belly and Side Fat Under Your Clothes

• Choose loose clothes over tight ones.
• Pay attention to clothes with vertical stripes.
• Highlight a different part of your body.
• Choose clothes a little longer than the knee or maxi length.
• Use one-color blouses and shirts.

When you wear tight clothes that don’t fit – this might be one of the most serious reasons of why some people look fat. In their attempt to hide a little extra weight, by wearing clothes that don’t fit, they actually gather everyones the attention on themselves.

Clothes that are too small and tight will show every area of excess your body has. On the other hand, clothes that are too big and baggy will make you look wider and heavier than you actually are. Only clothes that fit you properly will flatter you.

Because baggy clothes make anyone over a size 10 look bigger, it’s as simple as that. The point is to draw a clean line around the body, to streamline. A loose silhouette doesn’t show where the fabric stops and the body begins, so you actually look as big as the extra large dress you’re wearing.

Instead choose full A-line skirts and dresses as well as wide-leg pants always with a fitted top. If you’re a top gainer, forget tight tees and slim-fit button-downs and pair puff sleeve tops, dropped-shoulder sweaters and oversized shirts with slim bottoms. It’s all about playing with proportions.

It turns out that some fashion “advice” is just plain wrong: horizontal stripes won’t make you look fatter. In fact, they may even make you look thinner. Applying the Helmholtz illusion to fashion: horizontal stripes won’t make you look fatter.

Do NOT wear giant prints! Smaller prints like polka dots, for example, will make you look slimmer.

This can have a stumpifying effect, making your legs appear shorter. A higher rise will visually lift your waist making your legs look longer and making you look taller. A higher rise is also less likely to dig in and create the dreaded “muffin-top” effect.

Excess fat over the area right between your hips and above your pubic bone is sometimes known by the slang term “FUPA” (fat upper pubic area).