Fuller & pear - Caryn Franklin's How to Look Good

Step Four
Horizontals
This picture illustrates how horizontal lines can create width and a
foreshortening effect. See how the eye travels across the body wherever
there is a horizontal line.
Horizontals are effectively used as visual punctuation on tall bodies but
must be used more sparingly on shorter and curvy bodies.
They can, however, be great tools to create width at a certain part of
the body to give balance.
Horizontal lines are made by:
• Creating a colour break (a change of colour)
• Belts
• Seaming
• Print
• Garment layering to create horizontal slabs of colour
• Features on clothes like smocking, yokes, panelling ribbing, shirring,
fabric bands
Caryn says...
See your clothes
in a different light
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