Style Errors: 8 Tragedies that Weigh Down Your Look

Choosing the right clothes, the right cuts, and the right materials is not so obvious. Moreover, fashion faux pas are numerous on the street, at work, everywhere! How to avoid monumental style mistakes that weigh down your silhouette when you would like to attract that handsome young man or join that nice group of colleagues? Good fashion taste can be learned, and it’s now: here are the 8 style mistakes to avoid AT ALL COSTS!

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1. Layering clothes to hide

How to hide a slightly too rounded belly, wide hips, or visible thighs? Certainly not by layering loose and thick clothes without any logic. This advice, often repeated by stylists who do not know how to dress curves, unfortunately creates a lot of unnecessary bulk (the opposite effect of the desired result).

To be absolutely avoided, at the risk of looking 10 years older! (Image: Pinterest)

On the contrary, learn to master the subtle art of layering to slim down, hide slightly wide hips with a straight blazer falling over the top of the thighs, right in trend. Discover plenty of tips in our article How to dress when you have a belly?

A trendy and successful clothing layering (Image: Pinterest)

2. Choosing large, loose, and flowing clothes

Wearing wide and flowing clothes for convenience is a false good advice, as the result is often a failure. Instead, observe your body shape and adapt the cuts of clothes to your strengths and weaknesses. Not to mention your colorimetry.

To read: How to dress well according to your body shape?

In general, avoid clothes that are too big for you, unless you fully embrace the oversized trend with a thick sweater or a denim jacket. However, be sure to balance your silhouette with skinny pants or jeans to avoid a balloon effect.

Only one oversized piece - and balance the rest of the outfit (Image: Pinterest)

3. Wearing clothes that are too tight

Conversely, clothes that are too tight or too small do not create a nice effect either. Unless you like the sausage style, stuffed with horizontal lines that make you look bigger and buttons ready to pop. Certainly, clothing sizes change according to brands, but they are just numbers or letters. The important thing is to feel comfortable in your outfit.

Choose your size: your belly should not show when you raise your arms, and your hips should not spill out of your pants. Do not deprive yourself of a nice pair of jeans but choose carefully:

• its composition: ideally 97% cotton and 3% elastane;
• its cut: straight if you do not like your thighs, or skinny. High-waisted is preferred to shape your buttocks and elongate your legs. Low waists are reserved for tall and slim women (otherwise, it shortens).

4. Matching every detail of the outfit

Matching is good. But too much matching kills the outfit. A harmonious look contains two colors, a maximum of three. Carefully choose the colors worn close to your face to brighten your complexion and erase small imperfections (take your colorimetry test here).

But wearing a handbag, shoes, a belt, earrings, and a hair accessory all in the same color, especially if it is not neutral, is a fashion faux pas that makes you look like a little girl. Limit the same color to a maximum of two accessories.

You can also opt for a monochrome outfit, but in this case, degrade the color in different shades, or in different materials (noble if possible), otherwise, you will look like you are in pajamas!

5. Very long pants or dress

An extra-long pair of pants, a dress, or a pleated skirt that sweeps everything in its path looks very beautiful on runways. But in real life, too much length reveals a neglected aspect of your personality, not to mention the lack of practicality for movement and that the rubbing on the ground damages and grays your clothes forever.

Find the right length for your maxi pleated skirt to showcase your good fashion taste (Image: Pinterest)

Remember to have the bottoms of your clothes tailored by experienced seamstresses (neither too small nor too large, just adjusted to the length of your leg). Many large brands offer this service. Otherwise, head to the tailor or the local haberdashery. Unless you prefer the option of iron-on tape that can be applied with a simple iron.

Also read: 15 tips for a sophisticated look for cheap

6. Not adapting clothes to your body shape

We can never say it enough, some clothes flatter your body shape, balance your silhouette, and highlight your assets, while others only accentuate your complexes.

For example:

• if you have short legs: avoid low-rise pants and midi skirts that shorten your silhouette
• mark your waist: belt, crop top, peplum top... no matter your choice, the waist is an essential reference in an outfit.
• wide shoulders: avoid puffed sleeves with gathers that add bulk. Similarly, avoid American armholes, those thick straps that go from the armpits to the neck and accentuate shoulder volume.
• sloping shoulders: create your silhouette with shoulder-padded jackets or leather jackets to give a beautiful head posture.

7. Wearing multiple flashy colors

Color blocking is a double-edged sword in fashion. Reserved for fashion goddesses or those who dare everything, rather reserve flashy colors for accessories, and even just one of them that will gather all the originality of your outfit.

Strong color + strong print + colorful bracelets = an inspiring fashionista who masters her style (Image: Pinterest)

Do you absolutely want to wear red, chick yellow, electric blue, or emerald green? Limit the color to one strong piece and make the rest forgettable with neutral tones (white, beige, black, denim) to calm the look.

8. Accumulating different patterns and prints

Unless you are a fashion addict who dares everything, mixing different patterns and prints, in varied colors and diverse materials is a monumental style mistake. Except in the case of a matching suit, which is currently very fashionable. Grab this trend of a blazer jacket - 7/8th cigarette pants in prince of wales gray check for a successful work look.

The check suit, the current exception to the risky accumulation of prints (Image: Pinterest)

But in everyday life, it is better to avoid mixing different prints, patterns, and flashy colors in a single outfit. As with strong colors, focus on one original piece with a text, a print, or a huge pattern that speaks volumes about your personality and temper the rest of the look. This is proof of good fashion taste!

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Now, you will know how to avoid falling into gross fashion traps that weigh down your appearance and make you look like... a novice. No need to spend a fortune on 50,000 different clothes, jewelry, and accessories and follow all the trends. Find your style through the essential pieces of a good women's wardrobe, suited to your body shape and colorimetry, and you will be elegant in all simplicity.