While finding through illustrations I have collected on styles that suit every woman, I suddenly saw a pattern that had not occurred to me before. It was an Aha Moment.
Let me share the uncomplicated dressing tip that will make you shine, add variety to your wardrobe and all the time have you feeling good about yourself.
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It is the magic of the Princess Line. This is the line that goes from your nipple to your knee and sometimes right down to your second toe.
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Read on to scrutinize contemporary dressing magic in interpreting this style to flatter every woman.
Why It Works
The princess line is magic because vertical lines are all the time slimming. Divide a top, jacket, dress or skirt into smaller vertical parts and you look slimmer that wearing a big solid block of colour with no divisions. Vertical sections are more slimming than wearing the solid all-black look.
These magic lines define your shape and propose a curvy, intriguing female body like McCall's shirt pattern 6035. Forget the tight-fitting princess styles of your youth. Today's relaxed styles are feminine and sensual and petition to men of any age. They also boost your self-esteem because you are telling yourself and others that you are proud to show rather than hide your current shape. Even Queen Elizabeth wears this style quite often. Age is no barricade to flattering dressing.
Lastly these style features make clothes more interesting. This gives you a feeling of satisfaction as your wardrobe is not full of the same boring styles and shapes.
How to Recognise It
In your youth, you probably wore this style beginning at the arm hole, curving over your nipple and flowing down towards your knee. Be rigorous of it today. If it curves above or below your nipple, put it back. These styles are depressing because they remind you that your bustline has gone south and you are not twenty anymore.
A best selection is when this style that starts at your shoulder or neckline and comes over your nipple and down in a level line to your knee. Vogue shirt pattern 8322 is a good example of this style. Your breasts may go south but your nipples rarely move east or west. They may move minimally after breast cancer surgical operation but not sufficient to be as noticeable as the downward gravity of age and weight gain. The best contemporary selection is one beginning from just surface your collar bone like Vogue shirt pattern 8322. The second best starts high on a rounded or U-shaped neckline like Vogue knit top pattern 8671.
These vertical seam lines are even more flattering when combined with gradually shaped side seams. The goal is to skim and propose rather than fit tightly and show every kilo gained on your tummy, hips or bottom.
Princess line skirts are commonly called six-gore skirts. These can be level skirts or A-line skirts. You will recognise them as the seam end at the centre of your knees like Simplicity skirt pattern 6079. The top of the seam would, if extended, go level up to your nipple.
Modern Magical Variations
The basic style is flattering but the magic comes with its variations. These add variety to your wardrobe as well as being flattering to your figure.
Queen Elizabeth at her Jubilee Concert wore a golden gown with seams from the shoulder. On the top right of her dress was beautiful exaggeration which tapered down below her hip. This made the seams less confident and the style more attractive. Queen Elizabeth wears lots of variations of this style for both day and evening wear.
Above the bust a blouse or top may be any gathered or crossover style but below that there are vertical seams in line with your nipple such as McCall shirt pattern 5522. Crossover tops or dresses that end everywhere along either of these lines, such as Butterick top and dress pattern 5485, are much more flattering than crossovers that end at your side seam. Some styles also add extra vertical seams, fold, pleats, lace etc to the basic lines such as Vogue knit top pattern 8671. Someone else smart dissimilarity that I have seen is a Sara brand shirt with pintucks in the centre part only in the middle of these seam lines. The pintucks end at the waist to propose a slim waist rather than show your actual waist with a belt or self-tie.
Another dissimilarity is to wear a waterfall jacket with its soft collars wide apart to fall open along these magical vertical lines. Simplicity jacket pattern 2150 shows how this gives you a flattering, slimming effect.
Instead of a plain six-gore skirt look for one that has trimming along the seams; or has pleats on the front seam lines such as Simplicity 6079; or has back seam-line pleats; or has pleated, gathered or fishtail inserts in the middle of the back seam lines like McCall's skirt pattern 5523. Someone else dissimilarity is the skirt with one wide side piece and one narrow one on this magical vertical. Some like Butterick suit pattern 5574 adds Someone else very narrow piece in the middle of the two unequal widths as well as short hemline pleats for extra movement and originate variety. These unequal pieces are more flattering than two equal pieces created by a centre front seam. The same principle works for jackets with unequal front pieces like Butterick crossover jacket pattern 5689.
Use the same principle for accessories like brooches and scarves. Pin a brooch on the imaginary line from collarbone to nipple. Wear a scarf so that one or both ends hang down your body along the same magical lines.
Last Words
Now you understand the secrets and versatility of the princess line, go and play. Make the princess your new best dressing friend.
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