can transform outfits from basic to really something that's more taller and

slimmer looking since I'm 5'1 (or 155cm) I really view fashion as a form of

makeup where I can work with things like color to really enhance and make me feel

more confident in my day also I want to work with things like proportion and the

cut of the garment so let's get started with the first outfit for the first one

I'm going to start with a jean jacket and some navy flats and then a lighter

outfit underneath with a light henley and then some oversized very

loose-fitting jeans so I love and wear all of these pieces that I own but not

every single piece that I own is made to look taller but there's ways where you

can combine each one of these pieces to work but for this outfit since I'm

wearing light colors underneath it's really emphasizing wear this jacket cuts

me which is right at my widest point so I'm gonna just ditch the jacket for now

now you'll notice that because my proportions have you know a longer torso

and then shorter legs this shirt is a bit too long for me it's really making

that long torso look even longer than my legs so I'm going to tuck in my top

that's one of my main tips is anytime that you can make your legs look longer

by where you're in your top is going to end it's gonna really help balance that

out so after doing that you'll notice that these are my looser fitting jeans I

wear them you know if I'm feeling a bit bloated if it's that time of the month

but I do have a really tighter option because they are a lovely pair of jeans

I think they're really flattering I do need to get them hemmed up a little bit

though so I'm just kind of rolling them for today but just by making that small

shift into just sizing down one size on my jeans jeans aren't necessarily

supposed to be extremely comfortable some days they need to just be more

flattering nobody said jeans were comfortable – no

– it's a lie – it's a lie – so if we could all get rid of the idea – debunk that straight away like

good jeans are not that comfortable – no one's having a good time in good jeans

they're horrible they give you camel toe everything hurts it's hurting here it's up

the bum – but oh my god you look good – but they look great – the thing though about lighter jeans is

that they will always emphasize you there so if you maybe want to look more

you know curvy or you know wider down on your pants you can have a lighter option

but visually I would like to go darker on these jeans so I'm gonna swap them

out with a tighter fitting and darker wash jeans these jeans are also higher

waisted so they are honestly the highest rise I have in a pant and so they're

really gonna elongate even though right now I've got like two contrasting colors

and I'll get into that in a little bit I get a lot of questions when talking

about high waisted pants if it's okay to wear mid rise are low-rise and I think

that if you have proportions opposite of mine if your legs are super long in your

torso is very much shorter then you can go for like a mid rise and it's still

gonna balance out that illusion and still look really flattering on you now

the henley that I chose to wear today I specifically chose because I have it

also in a navy so I want to show what monochrome can do this is one of my

favorite tips because instead of virtually making two squares stacked on

top of each other in the colors you're going to create one long rectangle

that's now going to just make a solid line from your shoulders down to the end

of your pants so that's always one of my tips to lengthen and elongate and

anytime that you can do that then it's going to stretch the illusion of how

tall you are so you'll notice that my top is untucked

at first and I wanted to do that so that I could illustrate the illusion of

monochrome so if you're just one of those people who's like I don't enjoy

tucking in my top you don't have to if you're going with monochrome you're

still going to have that long illusion but for me I'm pear-shaped

so if I'm displaying my smallest point then that's going to really work for

tucking in my top so what's really happening here is I've got a navy outfit

white ankles which is proof I need to go on vacation and then

I'm wearing really dark shoes so that color blocking still applies when it comes to

footwear so because I want to expose my ankles here I'm gonna go with a skin

tone shoe this is one of the first tips I ever did with the series and I'm still

wearing these shoes they're amazing so their skin toned and they're pointed so

what's really gonna help if you want to wear flats is that you can go with a

pointed toe that's gonna add a few inches visually so those shoes really

work if you're one who just does not want to wear a heel or maybe just that

day you're not necessarily feeling like you want to wear a heel that's a really

great tip but because this outfit could be so much more elongated by wearing a

heel I want to just show that for illusion in illustration sake so these

are ankle boots that's gonna really help already compared to like a knee length

boot just visually to elongate my legs and then also having that skin tone

color is gonna help and then adding the heel inevitably somebody is going to see

the intro of this video and be like oh she just adds heels you know problem

solved of course that's how you look taller but there's so many other little

aspects that come into play with an outfit like this so just seeing the

before and after I think is gonna help so much but first I want to add a jacket

so originally I started out with a jacket that hits me right at my widest

point but I also want to show a different jacket something that is a lot

longer if you want to look taller with a jacket the best way that you can do that

is by going with a really long jacket or else a cropped jacket so this is hitting

me right at my knee ideally I'd like to have a jacket that's going a little bit

above or below my knee but this is working just fine especially since it's

a thinner jacket it's also monochrome so it's going to blend in with the rest of

my outfit and then I'm going to add a scarf that's also much longer than a

normal scarf would be just something that could really a lengthen and keep

those long lines flowing for this next outfit I want to have a striped shirt I

want to have some black pants and then some ankle boots that are black as well

there's plenty of ways to make this better I'm sure you already have a few

guesses as to how so right away I'm going to tuck in that top you'll be able

to notice that these pants have big pockets those pockets start

a little bit lower so they at least emphasize that the waist is smaller than

the pockets themselves but this outfit could be so much better in general these

pants are cropped up so they're going to expose more of the black/white/black

thing that's happening here with showing my ankles so I want to add

some socks to make that more of an elongated look so now all of a sudden

this black line is going from the top of my pants all the way down to my toe so

that's going to help so much I could also create this long line by having a

pant that isn't cropped and have it go all the way to the ground so these pants

are just maybe an inch too long I tried to get them to the tailor before the

video but my tailor sadly has closed her doors and I just want to emphasize

anytime that you can make an outfit be hemmed up just a little bit to really

work for your proportions that's how outfits and pieces should be

worn so this would have been even so much better the power of tailoring is

incredible and it's really cost-effective for the cost of the

outfit compared to that so I just wanted to say that if you're working with

proportions if your outfit is something that's perfectly tailored to you it's

going to help so much the thing that I do like about these pants is that

they're not only high-waisted but they have enough stretch to them to where

it's really going to highlight curves and still with curves you have you know

wider points and slimmer points so this is going to accentuate that I love

having curves I love working with that and not hiding those necessarily next

one of the tried-and-true principles to looking taller and slimmer is to not

have horizontal stripes if they are horizontal stripes it's okay to work

with a thin stripe because then at least there's not like too much contrast but I

wanted to try a different top to really have the same sort of look and design

without necessarily having a stripe so this top is color-blocked you have white

on top and then it breaks off to the black which is going to make your legs

look even longer so it's breaking much higher than even my high waisted pants

you don't need to tuck in a top like this but it is going to help if you can

at least like roll it up a little bit either way it's totally fine of course

what's going to make it even better is a

monochrome look so I want to swap it out with a black sweater just for

illustration so now I've got a very long line I've got tall boots which are

hidden underneath really long pants and then I'm carrying that black line all

the way up to my shoulder so even though I'm 5'1" (155cm) this outfit is very

lengthening compared to what it was at the very beginning something I've really

been experimenting with a lot is athleisure so today I'm wearing hoodies

sneakers leggings and an oversized jacket so I love this jacket it's so

extremely comfortable it works well if you just are traveling

and you want to just cozy up and be so warm and everything but the problem here

is that the faux fur is tracing where my widest point is it's also extremely

oversized extremely loose not working with my proportions at all so I want to

swap that out today I'm gonna just remove it for now and underneath I'm

wearing a hoodie that's cropped up and that works perfectly and then I'm

wearing high-waisted leggings so the combo here is okay but it could be

better so the first thing that I want to do is I want to tuck that up a little

bit and just expose more of my leggings the cool thing about a hoodie is that

it's going to add more weight to my shoulders where I'm really a lot smaller

than the rest of my body so that's going to make more of an hourglass illusion

then say pear-shaped so that's gonna work for me especially

but what I also want to do is swap out that top again monochrome we're gonna

see what happens here so that top is now a black hoodie and then I'm just

carrying that line all the way down to my ankle I'm not going to be switching

out the shoes for this outfit but I have a really handy trick so if you have

shoes like sneakers that could easily conceal this these are amazing they're

little tiny 1 inch riser inserts the cool thing about them too is that

they're going to make your shoes more comfortable they are a lot like

orthotics where you've got just a little bit more of a gel cushion in your shoes

so I like to wear these for heels to make them more comfortable especially

like tall boots but for today I'm putting them in my sneakers these are

sneakers that I very much treasure I don't wear them for heavy workouts but

they are just a beautiful look for an athleisure outfit

so having little inserts like this you know they don't cost very much money and

they're going to add a little bit of extra height to you so that's what I'm

doing for this outfit it's subtle but it's adding an extra literal inch to my

outfit and finally for the jacket choice instead of having that oversized faux

leather jacket before I'm going to opt for a cropped jacket so this is a

leather moto jacket and it's gonna look really good with a hoodie because the

hoodie is just gonna add more emphasis to my shoulders it's and then the jacket

is gonna cut me right at my smallest point and then what's underneath is just

black leggings so I've got a really long line that's happening here with

monochrome and then I'm not even going to worry about if the sneakers are the

different color from my legs or anything they are very close to the color of my

legs even though they have some black accents and then I'm just giving those

risers to really add some literal height so that's what's happening with this

outfit it's really cool how you can just still work with a lot of thought process

on an outfit that's athleisure and comfortable and seemingly effortless but

there's little tricks like this that you can put in your back pocket and maybe

make your outfits look even better and more put together every day so you feel

more confident and that's it I hope that you enjoyed these three outfits if you

did be sure to give this video a thumbs up especially if you want more look

taller videos and I guess I'll see you next time