https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/question-on-top-length Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Wed, 06 May 2026 13:59:18 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/question-on-top-length#post-164228 Sun, 30 May 2010 22:58:28 +0000 Angie 164228@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What Vix and Maya said. My top guidelines are for un-tucked tops. Jennifer is tucking her top into low rise jeans. On top of that Jen is long bodied even though she's only 5ft 3. She looks taller doesn't she! </p> <p>Have to say that I'd like to see Jennifer stop sporting tank tops and straggly whiteT's. Love her in her jeans, boots and blazers though :0) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/question-on-top-length#post-164144 Sun, 30 May 2010 18:05:24 +0000 Maya 164144@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Frances, I think you might be distracted by the fact that the shorter tops are more form fitting (which is exactly what makes them good for skirts), while the longer ones are more voluminous or relaxed. </p> <p>Those models are all slim rectangles, slim-hipped inverted triangles, or rectangular hourglasses, so they don't have to think as much about top length as the vast majority of women who have curvier hips. In fact shorter tops might look better on them since they *create* curves.</p> <p>I think tucking looks great on a long-waisted body. Those with long torsos have the waist definition and the length needed to pull it off. When I tuck into pants, the results are comical. My torso is squat and short as can be, and my legs look about 5 miles long...which sounds good but it makes me look like a freak!</p> <p>Skirts are fine because they are much shorter than pants are, so I don't look as off-balance and skirt tops need to be shorter anyway. On my ultra petite upper half, it's impossible to find skirt tops that are short enough...even in the petites department. I suspect if I were a few inches taller it might be easier. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/question-on-top-length#post-164127 Sun, 30 May 2010 17:11:11 +0000 Vix 164127@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I could be wrong, but I assumed the top length guidelines were for untucked tops/jackets. </p> <p>Since she's rectangular, JA is big on using the belted-but-semi-untucked technique to create shape in the hip zone; I think that's what's going on with the black shirt in the first link. Two other variations here...the Ts hit at ~ hipbone:</p> <p><a href="http://www.polyvore.com/dress_like_jennifer_aniston/set?id=12191858" rel="nofollow">http://www.polyvore.com/dress_.....d=12191858</a><br /> <a href="http://www.polyvore.com/jennifer_aniston/set?id=11243679" rel="nofollow">http://www.polyvore.com/jennif.....d=11243679</a></p> <p>She does the untucked hipbone-length shirt here:<br /> <a href="http://www.polyvore.com/dress_like_jennifer_aniston/set?id=9401753" rel="nofollow">http://www.polyvore.com/dress_.....id=9401753</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/question-on-top-length#post-164107 Sun, 30 May 2010 15:39:41 +0000 Frances 164107@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I find the top length issue a bit puzzling too, but I think I also have a longer length torso in relation to my petite lower half and short legs, so that could be some of it. I know this is bad, wrong and awful, but I am also a life-long top tucker--I just do not like the look of untucked tops on myself. Maya, thanks for posting that link again as a reference. What I like about the shorter length tops in those photos is that they appear more slimming (to my eyes anyway) than the longer length tops. However, I can see how this might not be the case on someone who is more of an apple or pear shape. Angie, can you shed some light on this issue? Are there some instances or body types for which shorter length tops and even (horrors!) tucking might be more flattering? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/question-on-top-length#post-163881 Sat, 29 May 2010 23:30:53 +0000 Maya 163881@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Short tops look ridiculous on me because they just make my torso look even more squat than it is (and since my bust takes up half my upper half, it makes it look even larger). </p> <p>She is also very slim, possibly longwaisted? Hard to tell.</p> <p><a href="http://youlookfab.com/2008/04/28/the-right-length-for-tops-worn-over-pants/" rel="nofollow">http://youlookfab.com/2008/04/.....ver-pants/</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/question-on-top-length#post-163880 Sat, 29 May 2010 23:23:42 +0000 Rose 163880@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for the answers.. I was going to try to prove you all wrong about the belt but in every photo that I have seen she has a belt if her top length is short..<br /> hmm, I asked because I am noticing that I often think my tops are too long on me, I think that I prefer shorter than the guideline length, so I was looking to my style icon who happens to wear shorter length tops to figure out what the exception was here... I am sure I just need to play around with top length and maybe try a belt too.. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/question-on-top-length#post-163792 Sat, 29 May 2010 19:28:31 +0000 Inge 163792@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Bumping this for Angie. I think the lasses are on to something: other factors come into play when you are wearing a belt, and the darker colours in the first picture make it work for me, I guess. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/question-on-top-length#post-163762 Sat, 29 May 2010 18:50:19 +0000 Lisa 163762@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't know why the first picture with the shirt is ok. I assume the belt is what makes it work for the second set of pictures. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/question-on-top-length#post-163684 Sat, 29 May 2010 15:47:57 +0000 Scarlet 163684@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Maybe it has to do with the belt? It seems to be important in defining her shape and polishing off the look in each of these pictures. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/question-on-top-length#post-163680 Sat, 29 May 2010 15:40:11 +0000 Alecia 163680@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm with the other ladies. It's her body type. As Angie says, her guidelines are just a starting point. People can play with them a little and still look good, but how to do that depends on the person.</p> <p>As for Jennifer specifically, I think she looks good in most of the posted pictures, but not the middle picture on the People page. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/question-on-top-length#post-163633 Sat, 29 May 2010 13:12:18 +0000 Beth 163633@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think Kim's right. She has the kind of body that can pull that look off. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/question-on-top-length#post-163631 Sat, 29 May 2010 13:08:31 +0000 Queen Mum 163631@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>hmmm, maybe because in the first picture she's wearing blue on blue (or is that black?) and in the second she's going for the tucked belted look. She is also quite slender and more rectangularish so she probably gets away with more that curvy gals can. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/question-on-top-length#post-163628 Sat, 29 May 2010 13:01:53 +0000 Rose 163628@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hi all..<br /> I have read Angie's guidelines for proper top length many times.. she say that “the length of your tops should either catch you just below your hipbone (a few inches above crotch point), or past the thigh area” I'd really like to understand why shorter tops work really well on some people- like Jennifer Aniston- she seems to wear her tops much shorter than the guidelines (?), why does this work, or am I unclear about what hipbone length is? See examples here:<br /> <a href="http://www.polyvore.com/sap/set?id=10441880" rel="nofollow">http://www.polyvore.com/sap/set?id=10441880</a><br /> <a href="http://www.people.com/people/jennifer_aniston/photos/0" rel="nofollow">http://www.people.com/people/j.....n/photos/0</a>,,,00.html#20695031</p> <p>Thanks !! </p>