How To Wear Stripes Without Looking Like The Hamburglar

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/68dfa5921800003aaf5d100d.jpeg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="Striped clothes" data-caption="Striped clothes" data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="M&S / Zara / Damson Madder" />Striped clothes</div><div class="content-list-component text"><p><em>We hope you love the products we recommend! All of them were independently selected by our editors. Just so you know, HuffPost UK may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page if you decide to shop from them. Oh, and FYI – prices are accurate and items in stock as of time of publication.</em></p><p><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/val-watham/the-science-of-stripes_b_1417846.html"><span style="font-weight:400">Stripes</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> have long been a somewhat divisive corner of the fashion world. </span></p><p><span style="font-weight:400">Once upon a time, problematic makeover TV shows told us that vertical stripes would be more flattering and horizontal stripes were to be avoided at literally all costs because they make us look ‘bigger’. </span></p><p><span style="font-weight:400">Thankfully, those days are behind us – dear reader, you’d better wear whatever </span><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/07/12/why-i-always-feel-safe-in-stripes_n_7363440.html"><span style="font-weight:400">stripes</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> make you happy, or else I shall be very cross.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight:400">However, I myself used to fall prey to a different stripe-centric problem pretty much every time I tried to wear them. Put simply, horiz