SHORT LEGS? Try high-waisted jeans

Once considered “mom jeans,” the highwaisted design is back in full force this season, and for good reason! “Since they rest at the navel, giving the illusion that legs begin higher up on the body than they actually do, high-waisted jeans are the best tool for making legs look endless,” says celebrity stylist Samantha Brown. What differentiates them from the “mature” jeans of the past?

Color treatment. “Designers added little touches like contrasting ‘stripes’ that run down the inner seams—it’s more youthful, and the vertical shading effect actually enhances the leg-elongating benefits,” says Brown. She suggests tucking a fitted top in the same color family into jeans, so the eye scans the figure seamlessly for an even more statuesque silhouette.

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