Elegance 101 (wear clothes that fit you properly)

Rule n. 5: wear clothes that fit you properly. 

Any garment should fit our body everywhere and have an ease. How much ease a garment can have is dictated by its design, e.g. an A-line dress should touch us nowhere at all below our chest. We buy each type of garment on the size that it will allow us to show its flare. The smallest ease should be found in the waist of our skirts and must be one inch (just what allows us to eat 3 cookies with our coffee). As we move further away from your skin, the ease is increasing, which means than  a coat must be a lot bigger than our measurements.

A smallest than the proper size garment can add pounds even to a skinny woman and can accentuate the flaws of any  body. So, when we buy new clothes,  instead of just standing up in front of the mirror, we make a small fit session on our own: we sit down, we strech your arms, we lift them above our head, again and again. We should be routhless in our critic and pay attention for all the signs that declare we have to go up one size, like those ones:

1)side pockets that open

2)shirts that reveal your breasts/belly when you are sitting

3)sleeve seams  that climp higher than your shoulders

4)skirts that have horizontal lines over your belly or pubic area

5)pants that create the camel-toe effect around the zipper

7)any seam that stretches to the point you can see the thread of the stiches

8)a coat so tight that can reveal to a third person details of your inner clothes, e.g the belt loops of your jeans. 

A very common mistake among the vintage lovers is to buy too small jackets and coats, mainly because women were really smaller during the 1940s and 1950s, they were both, thinner and shorter. We must never believe that we  can wear a jacket too small as long as we leave it unbuttoned, anyone can figure out how many inches are missing for this jacket to close. 

We also must be reasonable in our expectations from supportive lingerie and corsets. Those items cannot cut-down our figure and subtract pounds from our weight overall, they can only move those pounds lower or higher from whenever they are.
Bottom line:
We buy our clothes for the body we actually have.