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NY Fashion Week - Best and Worst Tall Women's Looks

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Best Patterns - Strong Geometric Shapes
Tall Women - Best Pattern

The bold colors and pattern on this Jill Stuart dress give shape to the model's body.

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Tall women have to choose pattern carefully. The wrong pattern paired with the wrong accessories can take over your frame, making you look like a giant curtain, tablecloth or garden. The best patterns on the runway this season combined bold geometric color blocks in a way that emphasized an hour-glass figure and highlighted the waist. Note how this dress' pattern changed in color and size based on the location on the dress with darker, larger geometric blocks on the skirt and smaller, brighter blocks on the top. This combination would look especially good on women with a pear-shaped figure.

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