Advice for choosing men's shirts
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Index: 1. Short torso 2. Long torso 3. Tummy 4. Short, heavy body 5. Tall and heavy body |
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This guide contains advice to help you choose the shirt style that is most complimentary to your figure.
Short torso
For your best look:
- Vertical details, like stripes or seams, help to elongate your torso.
Avoid these mistakes for your body type:
- Horizontal details
Long torso
For your best look:
- Horizontal details help to shorten the appearance of your body.
Avoid these mistakes for your body type:
- Avoid vertical details
- Do not wear your shirt untucked from your trousers.
Tummy
For your best look:
- Choose shirt styles with vertical details, like stripes and seams, because they make you look slimmer.
Avoid these mistakes for your body type:
- Short shirt styles
- Horizontal details
Short, heavy body
For your best look:
- Plain shirts with a classic collar look very flattering.
- Choose unicolored shirts or fabrics with small, decent patterns or pinstripes.
Avoid these mistakes for your body type:
- Horizontal details
Tall, heavy body
For your best look:
- Look for shirt styles with long drawn-out collars.
- Choose fabrics with pinstripes.
- Vertical details give your body a slender appearance.
Avoid these mistakes for your body type:
- Horizontal details



