{"id":1882,"date":"2014-06-23T05:03:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T05:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2014-06-24T02:47:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T02:47:34","slug":"why-dont-you-look-good-in-high-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/why-dont-you-look-good-in-high-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Don&#8217;t You Look Good In High Fashion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/alexander-mcqueen-models.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1886\" alt=\"alexander mcqueen models\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/alexander-mcqueen-models-300x265.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/alexander-mcqueen-models-300x265.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/alexander-mcqueen-models.jpg 538w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Ever try to recreate a look you saw in a fashion magazine or wear a look from a store mannequin\u2026and discovered that it looks TERRIBLE on you? You aren\u2019t alone. Here\u2019s why these looks don\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p>When you look at models dressed in a magazine, what size do they appear to be? Open a fashion magazine and look\u2026&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Dressed, models usually look like they are a size 6 to 8. Well, we know that fashion models are really a size 00 &#8211; 2, so the clothes in magazines and on catwalks visually add 3 to 4 sizes to their frame. So, if <i>you<\/i> wear the same looks\/combination of styles\u2026those clothes will add 3 to 4 sizes to you. If you are a size 6, you\u2019ll look like a size 12 to 14 and if you are a size 14, you\u2019ll look like a size 20 to 22.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ELLE-Feb-13-Cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1884\" alt=\"ELLE-Feb-13-Cover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ELLE-Feb-13-Cover-212x300.jpg\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ELLE-Feb-13-Cover-212x300.jpg 212w, http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ELLE-Feb-13-Cover-724x1024.jpg 724w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a>This is why the fashion industry calls a size 6 a plus-size model\u2026because, once they dress her, she looks like a plus-size woman.<\/p>\n<p>Wipe your tears. Take a breath. It\u2019s not your body, it\u2019s the clothes. \u00a0The fashion machine is for tall women who are a size 00 to size 4. For the rest of us, fashion magazines are for <i>inspiration not imitation<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a size 4 or larger, it\u2019s time to quit taking general dressing advice written by people who have never seen you and stick to the styles that flatter your figure and free your spirit.<\/p>\n<p>6\/23\/14&#8211;Note &#8211; Size 4+ can definitely wear high-fashion\u2026it just needs to be worn and styled a different way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every try to wear a look you saw in a magazine and found out that it looks terrible on you? Image Expert Sarah Shah explains why these looks don&#8217;t work in the real world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,687,348,336],"tags":[862,861,68,10,863,337,7,791,792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1894,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions\/1894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}