What color of clothes do you wear to make you look fat? Scientific analysis and guide to avoid pits with popular outfits
Recently, "fat color" has become a hot topic on social platforms, especially with the increase in summer wear demand, how to modify the body through color selection has become the focus. This article combines the popular discussion data on the entire network in the past 10 days, from scientific principles, actual test cases to dressing suggestions, to help you avoid the minefield of showing fatness.
1. The top 5 colors of fatness are discussed on the entire network (data source: Weibo, Xiaohongshu, Douyin)
| Ranking | color | Number of mentions | Typical complaints |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pure white | 128,000+ | "Strong expansion, easy to look bloated" |
| 2 | Bright yellow | 94,000+ | "Large visual impact, horizontal widening" |
| 3 | Light pink | 76,000+ | “Soft reflective, blurred outline” |
| 4 | Fluorescent green | 52,000+ | "High saturation attracts attention" |
| 5 | Light gray | 43,000+ | "Fused with shadow to show volume" |
2. The scientific principle of color to make you fat
1.Optical expansion effect: Light colors (especially high brightness) reflect more light, creating a "diffusion" effect visually, making the object look larger than it actually is. For example, white T-shirts make them look 10%-15% fatter than black T-shirts (data source: Journal of Clothing Engineering).
2.Contour blur: Low-contrast soft colors (such as nude, light pink) will weaken the body lines, especially not friendly to slightly fat people. Xiaohongshu users have shown that wearing beige dresses is 2 sizes fatter than navy blue.
3.Attention guidance: High saturation colors (such as fluorescent orange) will attract attention to the wearing area as soon as possible and magnify local defects. In the experimental video of Douyin dressing blogger @ Aning, the fluorescent orange top increases the visual width of the shoulder by 5cm.
3. Slimming color alternative
| Fat color | Alternatives | Effect comparison |
|---|---|---|
| Pure white | Ony white/cream white | Reduce reflectivity and increase the shrinkage by 30% |
| Bright yellow | Turmeric/mustard yellow | Lightness decreases, thinness +2 level |
| Light pink | Gray pink/rose pink | Increase grayscale and improve contour clarity |
4. Expert suggestions and popular pit avoidance techniques
1.Material is more important than color: Tight and light-colored fabrics (such as Lycra cotton) are fatter than loose dark thick knits. Recently, Taobao data shows that the search volume of "drooping chiffon" has increased by 47%.
2.Local slimming method: Weibo hot search #Slimming splicing color blocks# It is recommended to add dark dividing lines at the waist side and shoulder lines, and the actual waist circumference of Xiaohongshu is reduced by 3cm.
3.Seasonal adaptation principle: In summer, you can choose cool and light colors such as mint green and haze blue, which reduces the sense of expansion through the color temperature. The number of views of TikTok related tutorials exceeds 8 million times.
Conclusion:Whether the color looks fat or not is not absolute. The key is to combine skin tone, material and tailoring. It is recommended to bookmark the comparison table in this article and quickly check it before next time you shop to easily avoid the trap of "visual weight gain"!
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