"I suggest you not buy clothes with horizontal stripes because you'll look fat / a," "It is better to buy clothes with vertical stripes because they make you look thinner / a".

Have you come across while shopping for clothes is someone out with a comment like this?

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Well, a team of researchers from the University of York (England) managed to prove that clothing printed with vertical stripes creates an optical illusion of a bulkier body, which makes you look fat or fat, this contrary to what we said the fashion industry, which for many years kept us deceived into believing that wearing vertical stripes made us see more stylized.

The study that led the expert on perception, Mr Peter Thompson was to use 200 pairs of photographs of women dressed in clothes of vertical and horizontal. Then he asked a group of volunteers to evaluate the images and to indicate which considerably thinner.

Total and to the surprise of everyone, including the fashion industry, Thompson and his team discovered that women who were wearing horizontal stripes which volunteers were perceived to be the thinnest.

Conclusion.

It is best to wear clothing with horizontal stripes prints. Of course, the prints are not miracle. If you are "plump" or "plump" could conceal some of those excesses, but the most recommendable to remove kilos de mas, is exercise.

Tell us: Do you ever feel more fat or fat striped garments even though you recommend it? How did you feel after following the advice of "experts" in fashion? Never retailer that you looked better with clothes with horizontal stripes and vertical not insisting you use?