Dresses with horizontal stripes make you look 'significantly' slimmer than ...
Line of beauty! Dresses with horizontal stripes make you look 'significantly' slimmer than plain ones, study says Scientists have discovered that dark horizontal lines are actually more slimming There is a misconception that vertical stripes elongate while horizontals widen Findings were made by psychologists from Amsterdam and Crete universities
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Fashionistas have long claimed that vertical lines flatter but horizontal stripes make people look fatter.
However, scientists have discovered that dark horizontal lines are actually more slimming than other clothing designs.
Despite the perception that an area filled with horizontal stripes is taller than an identical one with vertical stripes – an optical phenomenon known as the Helmholtz illusion – there is a persistent misconception that vertical stripes elongate while horizontals widen.
