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What can you do if you aren’t an “average” size? What choices do you have if you’re a petite, plus or tall size, and every clothes-shopping trip you take becomes an exercise in frustration?

Well, don’t give up! There are a number of things you can do-IF you understand a few basic tenants. Let’s review them:

1. Don’t Expect Chocolate In A Sea of Vanilla

The fashion industry offers the largest bulk of its merchandise in “standard sizes”, which encompasses women sizes 4-14, 5’4″ to 5’8″ in height (European sizes 34-44 and 1.6256-1.7272 m), who also have an hour-glass shape. Because so many women fit these parameters, this is the most profitable ready-to-wear market.

If you don’t fit this description, your choices are considerable reduced…but not non-existent. You just can’t go into a regular, “vanilla” clothing store, and expect to have success in finding your non-standard size. If you do find what you need, consider yourself
lucky. Otherwise, head for specialty clothing stores.

2. Understand Your Body

Have a large bust but small hips? Have large hips but no bust? Need one size on top and another size on the bottom? Then accept it and move on. Your goal is to dress the shape you have, not the shape you wished you had. Yes, it’s common sense advice…that’s ignored
much too often, I’m afraid. Accept your body and move on.

3. Learn Some Sleight-of-Hand Tricks

You can appear larger or smaller depending on what kind of clothes you choose. Some elements to beware of include:

*Lines – horizontal lines on a garment will make you look wider; vertical lines will make you look taller and thinner.

*Color-light colors will make you look larger; dark colors will make you look smaller.

*Texture-smooth textures make you appear smaller; chunky or shiny textures add bulk

4. Experiment With Different Elements

Once you’ve found clothes that fit your shape and size, try experimenting with different clothing elements to bring about the desired effect.

For example, if you’re heavy…

*Try adding a long beaded necklace or pendant to your ensemble to give you a slenderizing vertical line.

*Avoid clothes that add visual bulk, like chunky sweaters, horizontal stripes, or light-colored fabrics.

*Opt for monochromatic looks, blending colors from head to toe.

Or, if you’re very thin…

*Use gathers and soft fullness to visually add pounds.

*Use multiple layers to create fullness and interest.

*Wear contrasting colors on top and bottom.

Once you understand your body shape and realize that you’re going to have to hunt down retailers to serve your non-standard size, your clothes-hunting duties become a lot less frustrating. Make a list of stores where you know you can find clothes that fit, and stick with them. Ask for recommendations from family and friends. Go online and look around. Then, experiment to find what looks best on you.

Its prom night and you are asked to a prom so it is a busiest time in life for a teenager. Prom night depicts fun laughter dancing and the best party ever in high school. Now the most important part is the prom dress. There are so many varieties in prom dresses like, medieval prom dresses, Victorian, gothic, fairy tale or renaissance. So to be the “belle of the ball” you have to get busy and look for a stunning prom dress. The medieval prom dress look stands out in all times.

Medieval times express richness and vanity and also reflect the social status of people of those times. Medieval prom dresses have been in fashion and come in lot of styles. When we talk of the medieval look we talk of a period and an era, which has gone by and has brought a lot of richness. Those days’ men dressed up in heavy gowns till the knees with long sleeves that could almost touch the ground. Ladies wore long gowns till the ankle.

Medieval prom dresses have a classic color choice, which was black. Other colors like red, maroon, purple, and burgundy and at times blue also could be used. These dresses have a flowing look with long sleeves and corsets.

A prince or a princess-medieval-prom-dress look needs to be very lavish, dark in colors and rich in embroidery. These kinds of dresses have lots of attachments in various materials on them. Motifs, patches, belts etc are also used. In the case of dresses worn by merchants and traders there are tunics and simple cloaks worn over them by the men folk. Linen shirts and decorated gowns can be worn for a medieval prom dress royal look.

For common people medieval dresses were not as flashy and colorful. The sewing patterns of medieval prom dresses are put up by the designers in formal gowns and make different and unique personalized style dresses.

Medieval prom dresses consist of a tight corset, which is laced many times and tied at the back. Sleeves are optional and one can go for spaghetti cords that are little broad or for long flowing sleeves under the elbow. Waist below flowing cloth can be used in layers to give a medieval look. You can have Victorian necklines to make it dressier.