Feel like a small shrub growing amongst beautiful, tall trees?

Some people are born tall, others are not. But just because you're short or you're not as tall as you would like to be, doesn't mean you can't look tall. Looking taller than you really are or appearing to be tall isn't as hard as you think. And you do not have to succumb to any balancing act on pole high heels… You only have to take into consideration 2 things when trying to look tall: posture and clothes.

Posture

Good posture provides many physical and psychological benefits. It is an important component for back health and height increase. Good posture helps maximize your height not just because of the obvious reason that you are sitting and standing tall rather than slouching and slumping, but for other physiological reasons as well.

One very basic way to improve your posture is by leaning against a wall. Keep your head, shoulder blades, buttocks and heels in contact with the wall. At the same time, use your muscles to pull back your neck, waist and knees to minimize the space between your body and the wall. There should be only slight gaps. This practice can help you straiten up and give the impression that you look taller than you actually are!

Appearance

By cleverly choosing the patterns of your clothes and their design, you can, well, manipulate the way your body appears, making yourself look taller! To beat your height disadvantages when you are on a job interview or a romantic date, follow these tips:

o Hair style
Have the hair style that makes you appear taller. In order to appear taller, a hair style should be thin at the sides and higher up on the top, which can make you look as much as an inch taller. The best way to do this is to tie a high-pony. Do not have any wide hair style.

o Clothes
Avoid clothes with horizontal lines. Belts are horizontal so make sure you conceal it in your clothes. Avoid clothes with a tartan or checked pattern. Instead, wear clothes with vertical lines or striping. They will not only make you appear taller but thinner too!

Avoid wearing sharply contrasting clothes and pants together, these will easily expose the real length of your legs and make you look shorter. Also avoid clothes that are made from heavy and bulky fabric. They add width and hence shorten your image visually. Wear high waist, cuff less pants to make the legs look longer. Also ensure that the coat or jacket that you are wearing is of the perfect length. They should end where the buttocks meet the legs. All this can help avoid the image of looking shorter and help you look taller than you really are.

o Colour
Wearing the right colours is also imperative to help you look tall. Match your pants' colour with your footwear to make the legs look longer. You can lengthen your upper torso by wearing a belt that matches your top.

Dark colours such as black, navy blue, and charcoal give the tall effect whereas; lighter shades make you look short.

In reality, it is mostly a game of psychology… use it to your advantage and enjoy walking tall!