Black is a slimming colour because it "hides" the visible shape of your body. For example, if a bigger woman is wearing a white dress, your eye would instantly see every non-smooth part of her body, but if she was wearing a black dress, the eye would see the woman as more "whole" than separate parts. If you are standing in a white room, the room will look bigger because white is a very bright colour, whereas if the room was dark, it would look much smaller because it is such a contrast to the daily outside colours that we see.
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nearly right ... Actually we see as black as more slimming because we cannot see the shadows created by lumps and bumps on black material. It only works from the front or back, as soon as they turn to the side its impossible to hide the shape of the body. Because white is such a bright colour we can see all the shadows that lurk underneath all those fat rolls- exaggerating them.
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I personally think I look great in both colors and it doesn't matter which one I wear... I thought of white as a slimming color...but I'm skinny anyway.
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