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They say horizontal stripes make you fat. But who tf eats horizontal stripes?
Aren’t french fries horizontal stripes depending how you hold them?
I should really start eating my fries vertically
They’re better diagonal tbh.
That's why I eat mine up and down like a baby bird
If you’re only chewing your own fries you’re missing out on a great family activity.
Thanks, I threw up in my mouth a little bit.
Save some for me
Grandma?
That’s the spirit.
Brb tossing out any horizontal stripes I have left from my closet.
Wait what about flannel? The stripes are perpendicular, so would they cancel each other out?🤔
Horizontal lines are known to do that but I think the photos aren't equivalent either way. If you cover the dress up or shoulders down, the middle one has a bigger gap between her legs and wider face without being able to see the stripes from what I see.
Loading it into an editor she has about an inch less per hip in the diagonal picture. Its pretty significant.
Ah I see it now. You can also tell by looking at the gap differences between her waist and arms.
Horizontal stripes actually look great on a skinny person. Or any person, if the pattern is good by itself — while these black/white stripes aren't really a shining example of that (though they would work on a twig-shaped heroine in a 60s French new-wave film).
Vertical stripes are typically boring imo.
Flannel's plaid disrupts any curves so it's pretty good for covering up bellies in particular. A big reason I'm a fan of the season of flannel (plus scarfs are nice, too).
Plaid is great in all seasons. I have many pearl snap plaid shirts ranging from thick and warm flannel to super thin beach flannel to just the cotton shirts.
First one: I better watch out, she'll call a foul on me
Second one: I better watch out, she's probably a felon on the run
Third one: I can't watch out because I don't know where she is
Something feels manipulated about this, but it also feels like the author/photographer went out of their way to make sure you couldn't prove it was manipulated
What you're likely seeing as throwing you off is differences because this is an actual human wearing this - PLUS it's essentially an optical illusion. This isn't 3 versions of the same image with just the pattern changed. So yeah, these are actually not perfectly matching up if you overlay them on top of each other. I wouldn't say manipulated per se, just that they're 3 different images so they'll have some differences.
I agree with you, but if you measure the width of the dress at the tip of her fingers, the left and right are about 99-100 pixels, while the middle one is 105 pixels wide. Her face in all three images is about 38-39 pixels wide (measured at the earlobe), so that rules out they stretched the entire image slightly. But 5 pixels is significant enough to kind of muddy the validity of the OP's message since it no longer rules out all but the appearance of the dress. It sadly happens that sometimes effects are exaggerated, even when there is a real effect at play.
Yup.
So let's take the body/pose on the right, copy it to all three positions mask the dress only, and overlay only the dress pattern in the same mask to actually show the differences between the patterns only.
If you zoom in and measure distances in pixels you'll see it's manipulated.
I think the biggest difference is the cut of the dress.
Bingo
Look at the amount of visible background inside the elbows. They are each increasing in conforming the body as you move to the right.
(from left to right) a) trying to look slim b) about to escape from prison in 1930 c) trying to confound enemy nation's Navy
Give her the 'ol Razzle Dazzle
The pyrotechnicrats, the ol' razzle dazzlers
The magic bean imbibers
The green giant of the rhyme contrivers
Supreme violence of the time describers
It’s funny how they also represent an era. Vertical stripes=50s horizontal=90s/early 2000s, slanted =futurama
It's not the clothes that make you fat, it's the ~~nutritional choices~~ lack of ozempic
It’s not the clothes that make you fat, it’s the ~~nutritional choices~~ ~~lack of ozempic~~ fat
lol
I thought everyone knew that stripes change your perception of something. In this case a lady.
3,2,1
Can someone repost this using something other than Imgur? They block the UK and Mullvad (though if someone is using Mullvad and can access it, let me know what server you're using please)
EDIT: nevermind, I can see it through the web version of Lemmy, just not through Sync or Imgur directly
That sucks :(
Nah it's fine, I'm getting used to having to find workarounds to use my VPN. For example, my GP's online system blocks any connections from outside the UK so I end up using my work laptop
Never had a problem with the se-xxxx-wg-xxxx servers. Can view directly from Sync.
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So which one is supposed to be the good one? Her body looks identical to me in all three photos.
Really? To my eyes, the vertical stripes are unflattering, the horizontal stripes accentuate her figure in a good way, and the diagonal stripes make her look somewhat slimmer
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