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

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Jan 19

Written By Andrea | Chapter 50

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Let’s Channel your Inner Bohemian Goddess

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

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.

cream maxi skirt, Zara, Ralph Lauren Sweater, JCrew Sneakers

black maxi skirt, read cropped button-up blouse, J Crew black heels

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.