How to Make Your Legs Look Thinner When Wearing Jeans

Jeans are a comfortable, versatile and stylish staple clothing item for various body shapes and sizes. Certain styles and cuts can flatter your figure while others could accentuate your flaws. Pairing jeans with the right top, color, shoes and accessories can dramatically improve the appearance of your legs. A slim and sleek look can be achieved by creating optical illusions to elongate your top and bottom halves in different ways. Balancing out body proportions helps to produce a long, lean effect throughout the length of your legs.

Instructions

The Right Cut

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Wear boot cut or flared jeans. These cuts create a slimming effect by forming long, clean body lines that flatter any body type.

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Wear straight or wide-leg jeans to create the illusion of leaner, longer legs. These cuts slim your legs by making you appear taller. The extra room in wide-leg jeans camouflages thick legs.

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Try high-waist jeans to further elongate your legs. All pants that are longer in length will have a slimming effect.

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Avoid capris or any other shorter-length jeans which make your legs appear short and thick.

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Avoid skinny, tapered or any form of tight jeans. These jeans will only highlight the unflattering parts of your legs instead of hiding them.

The Right Color

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Wear dark-colored jeans such as black, navy, charcoal or indigo. Darker colors help to conceal the problem areas of your legs.

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Stick to solid dark wash jeans or vertical striped designs to continue the covering and slimming effect.

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Avoid jeans with a fade wash, usually in the thigh area, which has the opposite effect of slimming.

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Try wearing a single color on both the top and bottom of your outfit. Wearing the same colored shirt as your jeans can make your entire body look leaner by forming one continuous shape. This effect makes it harder to instantly see where your torso ends and legs begin.

The Right Top

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Wear shirts or short dresses with A-line hems over your jeans to help narrow the appearance of your legs. Longer shirts that reach to your mid-thigh help to slim the look of your legs by stretching your torso.

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Wear bright-colored shirts to take the attention away from your legs and instead focus it on your face and top half.

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Wear shorter length shirts that hit the smallest part of your waist instead of ending at hip level, the widest part of your thigh.

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Try a cropped blazer with structured shoulders. The accentuated shoulders balance out a heavy bottom half and emphasizes a small waist.

The Right Shoes

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Wear pointed-toe shoes for an ultra-slimming effect on your legs. They extend the length of your legs by leading the eye down the pants toward a point.

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Avoid rounded-toe and flat shoes. They can make your legs appear thick and stumpy.

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Wear high-heeled and skin-tone colored shoes to have an extra thinning effect on your legs.

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Wear chunky wedges like espadrilles or platform heels if you want to wear skinny jeans. These help to balance the heavier top part of your legs.

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Avoid wearing delicate heels with skinny jeans as they will only play up the widest part of your legs.

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