Why is black a slimming color

Actually, though, if you want a slimming effect, the best method is to wear the same solid colour from top to toe. The single colour creates an illusion of length and prevents your body looking as if it has been divided in two at the waist. If you are looking at someone in silhouette, side on, wearing black will make no difference to how fat they look.

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Ever Wonder Why? Would you wear a running skirt? Your fave furry boots--are they a health risk? If you or someone you know is being abused, Tell Somebody. Find out more about our texting campaign. Visit ShopGlamour. Black is popular because it suggests sobriety and seriousness it is the colour of priests and mourning and that in itself may make you appear, I suppose, slightly less like a sybarite.

It is true, however, that black can make the pale look even paler — something you may choose to cultivate, whatever frustrated TV producers tell you to wear. Russell Smith is a novelist. His recent memoir, Blindsided , is available as a Kobo e-book.