The fashion police say that horizontal stripes should never been worn by women with curves. But the latest scientific research begs to differ. It say stripes which go across the body are slimming and ...

Wearing horizontal stripes can actually make a person appear thinner, a university research project has found. Flying in the face of orthodox fashion advice, horizontal stripes are in fact more ...

For years mothers have told their daughters that horizontal stripes do the female figure no favours and that vertical ones are more flattering. As a result, many women have spent their lives avoiding ...