The petite top heavy lady will discover how to look her best once she understands her body proportions.
The Inverted Triangle body has firm shoulders and sometimes a generous bust. With a shorter stature this figure can easily appear to be top heavy. Therefore, it helps to be aware of your vertical proportions.
You may consider yourself Petite Top Heavy if:
Balance and proportion is important but don't be over critical of your figure.
The body is considered to be divided in half at the leg break (where your body bends) and if the top half of your body measures roughly the same as your bottom half, then you are perfectly in proportion.
If you are Petite and completely in proportion, then you will probably find that clothes ranges designed specifically for the Petite lady will be perfect for you.
However, if your proportions are not equal, that is your torso is longer than your legs, you can create balance by visually adjusting the length of your body. You can do this with both the shape and the color of the clothes you wear.
In this image the legs are all the same length but you can see how easy it is to influence the eye with color.
Where the color is taken right up to under the bust it appears to make the legs look considerably longer. So a high waist pant in a dark color would have this effect.
When the break in color is lower then the light color takes precendence and the top half of the body looks longer - the legs therefore shorter.
The aim is to visually lengthen the leg to balance.
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