Styling Maxi Skirts For Lá petite to Let Out your inner Bohemian Goddess

Let’s Channel your Inner Bohemian Goddess

A maxi skirt is the perfect wardrobe piece when you want to channel your inner bohemian goddess,

or

when you’re feeling lazy but still want to look put together.

However, when you’re a petite {petite:: short, vertically challenged, smurf-height} you shy away from pieces that accentuate your shortness. 🙋🏼‍♀️

But let me tell you –no, show you– why you’re missing out on this…Dare I say CAPSULE wardrobe piece!

Chocolate and the skirt

A maxi skirt is like a Snickers bar, it satisfies all your cravings.

It’s long, plus can be flowy, and has a way of making you feel both elegant and comfortable at the same time. And, just like a Snickers bar, it never goes out of style.

For this reason I’m focusing on #5, from my Winter edition of Savvy and Splurge post — maxi skirts. Seeing them on the street, in the airports, and in my house {when I were mine}, this Fall and Winter I became obsessed with styling the petite-self to pull off this look.

AND NOT looking like I’d been chopped at the knees.

No reason all the 5’7” — 5’9” women should get the maxi skirts and we petites get the midi’s or mini’s in winter time.

Presenting the optical illusion for a petite to look less-short in a maxi skirt

Tip 1/ Which skirt style is for you? All skirts have names {other than “skirt”} This image from Modern Elegance Style gives you the visual tutorial.

Just Curious:: With a quick raise of hands…How many call the shortest one a mid-thigh skirt? How many call it a mini skirt? 🙋🏼‍♀️

Tip 2/ Practice the Rule of Thirds when you wear a Maxi Skirt. The skirt covers two-thirds of your body, so your top should be one-third.

• Wear a short or crop top with your maxi skirt
• In Winter, wear a shorter sweater or tee + short blazer

Tip 3/ Solids vs Prints

• Monochromatic hues pair seamlessly with this look {top and bottom are in the same hue, hint or shade of color so there isn’t a stark break, or divider from head to toe}
• Monochromatic’s on the color wheel give petite’s a taller appearance. {Wearing a baby blue shirt — 1/3 — with a navy maxi skirt — 2/3–}

For the Lover of Prints

• Style away from too loud + too big. If you love florals pick a smaller, mini daisy, print floral instead of big blooming iris’s on your skirt.

Tip 4/ Show Some Skin

We can give our legs a longer appearance by adding a skirt slit in the front, side or back to show some of leg. That little peek makes our legs look longer. {No, not 5’9” longer, but a skoch bit taller.}

At 5’3” I’ll take a skoch more where I can make it.

Tip 5/ Vertical Lines are a Petite Girls BFF

It’s one-part illusion, one part…Actually it’s all illusion because I’m 5’3” and never getting any taller. But knowing which illusions work in your style favor is the goodness.

• Keep the lines vertical in your shirt + skirt

Tip 6/ Heels and Wedges

Normally big chunky wedges overpower small frames, but in maxi skirts for lá petite, those wedges are mostly covered so it’s all added height.

{You might even be eye-to-eye with your kids again😉} Wedge heels are a go when smurf-height women wear maxi skirts.

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SOOOO, Snickers or Milky Way with your Casual or fancy BOHO maxi skirts?

P.S. It’s not all style around here…Join the traveling memoirs in a Chapter 50 for a monthly coffee date + wine o’clock for globetrotting travel tips {not Globetrotters basketball, but I’m not against watching sports}.

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• Starting over in this new empty nest lifestyle
• Renovation + decorating ideas {along with the mishaps} as we bring a family legacy {and an Italian heritage} back to life in #TheHouseGrandpaBuilt to share a vacation rental passion in the wine and dine country of Walla Walla, Washington
• And some Bookish talk while matching it with favorite wines 🍷