Will trousers make me look fat?

Will trousers make me look fat?

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Not at all. Again if you choose the right shade. Choose the right shade of trouser, yes. I think trousers can actually make you look far slimmer than a skirt. I have to say that having dressed an awful lot of women, that ladies that are bigger tend to hide in trousers. I struggle to get them to try on a skirt and they would much rather wear a trouser. So it is interesting that you are saying people tend to go the skirt route. Trousers are fantastic, particularly a relaxed trouser, because it gives you so many different ways to wear jackets and tops and it gives you much more structure on your body than a skirt. A skirt can tend to fall into folds and if you are feeling a bit chunky, a skirt can emphasize that feeling tremendously. But if you get a right fit of trouser, it gives you much more structure to your body. It also elongates you from waist down to, suppose you are not wearing a skirt that is just below the knee or mid calf. The fact that you are wearing a trouser elongates you from waist down to ankle, so you give the impression that you are longer, and therefore not as wide by wearing a trouser. I would agree.