'It makes you look old!' Women can look 10 years younger by ditching a 'dated' print
Women have been given some style advice to look a decade younger
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Personal style is a very individual thing, and women should wear what makes them feel good, regardless of their age.
However, according to one style influencer, some looks are simply more flattering than others. To shave off a decade, Anna Reid advised ladies to ditch large floral prints.
Showing pictures of several outfits alongside the caption "This makes you look old", Anna Reid gave her YouTube subscribers a tutorial on anti-ageing dressing.
She said: "I want to just sum it up for you. There's really two main reasons why you end up looking older than you are or kind of frumpy when you get dressed. I say 'you', but I'm really talking to me."
Larger floral prints risk looking 'dated' on mature women
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Reid said that women can go wrong by wearing "too much fabric" and doing "too much layering". Or, they can go wrong by wearing styles that are now "out of style".
She explained that while you don't need to keep up with every single trend, wearing something that everyone had on "on repeat five or 10 years ago", you may look a little "dated".
According to the fashionista, prints can "get you in trouble". Modelling a pink dress with large floral patterns, the influencer explained that prints can "go out of fashion very fast".
She said: "Here is a very traditional, non-trendy dress style. The print is very dated looking and the big flowers make me appear larger than I am.
"The style is fine - if it was in a dark green, hunter green colour or another solid colour, it would look a lot better."
But this doesn't mean women need to forgo floral prints entirely or risk looking years older than they are.
Reid suggested that smaller prints are much more forgiving. She claimed: "Small florals don't tend to look as dated as the large. They don't go in and out of style as much as the larger florals do."
For those looking to create the illusion of a slimmer physique, the style enthusiast believes that smaller prints can achieve this too.
According to Anna, floral dresses can be very flattering and youthful if they "show off" a part of the body - think shoulders, legs, arms or chest.
She suggested picking one physical feature to accentuate - "pick the part of your body you love the most and cover the rest".
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'Small florals don't tend to look as dated as the large'
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Women who are happy to ditch their florals might want to go for dresses in a block colour.
According to Anna these are "much more timeless and sophisticated in a lot of ways".
One-colour dresses also more versatile, as you can mix and match a wider range of accessories to go with them.
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