Junk in the trunk, so to speak, is a problem some women would like to have, or at least, they think they would. You know personally that having a larger rear isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. It’s difficult to wear shorts, and form-fitting dresses tend to look too provocative in your opinion. You’d love to dress in such a way that your butt looks smaller, especially for work. What should you start wearing?
Here are 10 cool tips for making a larger butt look smaller:
- Buy jeans with larger rear pockets
- Tan your rear end for the beach
- Get rid of those distressed jeans
- Wear darker colors on your bottom half and lighter colors on your upper half
- Skip the jeans and shorts with embellishments around the back
- Stick to an A-line cut for skirts
- Don’t wear pants with rounded back pockets
- Buy dresses, cardigans, or kimonos in flowing materials
- Long shirts work in a pinch to cover your rear
- Use shapewear
Whether you’re hiding, shaping, or drawing attention away from your sizable rear, we’ve got all the tips you need ahead. Keep reading to learn just how to style yourself so the attention is off your butt!
3 Reasons You’d Want to Hide Your Rear
You may be reading to this point and wondering who would ever want to hide a shapely derriere ala Jennifer Lopez’s, but there are plenty of instances in which a larger rear might be a point of contention for a woman.
1. Professionalism
The first of these is dressing for work. Your office calls for business casual attire, but to you, it doesn’t seem to matter what you wear. Whether you shimmy into a long, tailored dress, wear business slacks, or even jeans on casual Friday, you feel like all anybody sees is your butt. It’s front and center and it makes you feel like you’re not dressed appropriately. Plus, you also worry that you may not be taken seriously at the office.
2. Self-Consciousness
Many women have a part of themselves or two that they don’t like, or at least that they wish they could change. For you, it’s undeniably your butt. You know lots of women would love to look like you, but dressing in everyday clothes always accentuates your butt and you’re tired of it. You don’t want to wear the equivalent of a potato sack, going out in baggy sweats all the time. You want to feel confident and self-assured, but it’s hard.
3. Weight Control
Also, you feel like your butt is way too large and that it bloats the rest of your figure. If you could slim your rear, then the rest of you may look slimmer too, which would certainly be nice.
Want to Make Your Butt Look Smaller? Try These 10 Fashion Tips
You want to feel confident with the woman you see in the mirror, both from the front and the rear view. Our 10 tips are quick hacks that don’t require you to make huge lifestyle changes. By avoiding certain types of pants and embracing others, your butt will look decidedly smaller, no gym required!
- Watch the Size of Your Pockets
Lots of women’s jeans feature dainty little rear pockets. You likely have a few pairs of denim pants in your drawer right now with these similarly small pockets, right? The pockets are mostly just for show, since maybe you can fit a tube of lip balm in there, but not much else.
It turns out that, besides being inconvenient, these tiny pockets are also hurting your quest to make your butt look smaller.
This is a trick that smaller-reared women use to increase the size of their butt. When you buy jeans with shrunken back pockets, it makes your rear surface area look larger by comparison. For someone blessed in the butt department such as yourself, the effect is doubly as obvious. It’s also unwanted for you.
The next time you go pants shopping, look for brands with rear pockets that are larger. These bigger pockets are functional for starters, and they cover more of that rear surface area, bringing your butt down a size or two visually.
- When Summertime Comes, Tan Your Buns
Finding the right swimwear as a plus-sized woman with a large rear is a whole separate animal. Some bottoms ride up and almost disappear. That sounds like a sizing issue, so try increasing the size of your bottoms by at least one.
When you’re finally happy with at least the fit of your swimwear, shrink your butt in swimwear with a smart trick: self-tanning! Overall body color looks best, but make sure you pay special attention to your rear and hips especially.
Whether you hit your favorite tanning salon, buy bronzing powder, or grab a tube of self-tanner at the drugstore, tanning your bottom half makes it look smaller. Try it for yourself!
For the ladies who still feel a little too self-conscious showing that much skin at the beach or pool, a sarong can hide your butt in a matter of seconds. This chic, fashionable clothing choice doesn’t really work if you plan on swimming, but for lounging poolside, you’re all set!
- Skip the Distressed Jeans
Distressed jeans are called that because they’re supposed to have a vintage look, not because they make you feel distressed. Yet as a large-reared woman, when you slip into a pair of distressed denim, you can’t help but frown.
You figured the roominess and sometimes looser fit of distressed jeans would be perfect for someone with your figure, yet all you’re doing when you wear jeans like this is shine a spotlight on your butt.
Okay, maybe not literally, but you might as well be. The holes and distressing in this destructed denim bring the eye wherever the distressing is the most prominent. If that’s anywhere near your butt, then that’s where all eyes will be.
It’s okay if your jeans are holey around the knees, or only at the front and not the back, but rear distressing is a no-no for you.
- Stick to Darker-Colored Bottoms
Another problem with distressed jeans is they’re often only available in very light denim. As someone with a larger rear, you may have noticed that all your curves are accentuated that much more in lighter denim. It hides pretty much nothing.
That’s the case with any light colors, really. To mask your rear, integrate more dark hues into your wardrobe. These don’t exclusively have to be black, but a rich deep purple, navy blue, burgundy, and other colors without a lot of saturation.
Why does this trick work? The shadows that any of your body’s bumps and lumps naturally create are blocked out by the black or other dark color. That hides and slims the details of your body.
From sweatpants to pajama bottoms, shorts to business slacks, stick to darker colors. You might even be able to wear leggings and yoga pants again with this cool tip. Oh, and FYI, the trick applies to denim, too. Skip the light-colored denim and buy jeans with a darker wash. They’ll be much more flattering for your figure.
Also, when you pair your darker-colored pants with a lighter-colored top, the eye moves to the lighter color, which makes it even easier to hide your bigger butt.
- No Embellishments, Please
The bedazzled jeans trend that was popular in the second half of the 2000s died in that decade as well, but you’ll still come across pants decorated with jewels and other accents from time to time. This is usually much more tastefully done than the decades of yore, which tempts you to go try the pants on.
When you get in the dressing room and wear these nicely-decorated jeans, you realize your butt looks huge. Is this one of those unflattering dressing room lighting tricks, or is seeing really believing here?
In this case, seeing is very much believing. Think of these bedazzlements as a giant neon road sign saying “look at my butt.” That’s essentially what the embellishments are doing, drawing the eye towards where the shiny rhinestones, glitter, and faux jewels are.
This goes for decorated pockets to shorts with a bedazzled slogan or word across the back, and really any rear print. Skip the embellishments and your butt will naturally look a little smaller.
- Wear A-Line Skirts
All the cute skirts that come into style never work on your body type, it seems. Minis are dangerously short on you, in that if you bend the wrong way, you’re showing way too much. Knee-length skirts don’t flatter you super well either, and pencil skirts? Forget about it!
Let us introduce you to the A-line skirt. This type of skirt has a closer fit at your hips, but then the cut becomes wider all the way to the hem. It’s named A-line because the shape of the skirt resembles the capital letter A.
A-line skirts have a really adorable vintage flair, so you’ll be Taylor Swift chic for the day. You can get shorter or longer A-line skirts, although none are minis. Most hit at about the knee, but others reach the calves. Also, you can shop an A-line in almost any material, from denim to cotton, pleather, plaid, and everything in between.
If you find you like the fit of an A-line skirt on your frame, try an A-line dress too! Also, when winter arrives, A-line coats will give your front and back some room while creating your classiest silhouette yet.
- Rounded Pants Pockets Are Not Your Friend
Remember how earlier we talked about the size of your pants pockets and how they can influence how big your butt looks? You don’t only have to worry about pocket size, but shape as well.
The front of most jeans features what is known as curve pockets. You sometimes even get a curve inset pocket. That’s when your front pocket has a teeny-tiny little secondary front pocket. Of course, given that we’re talking about your butt here, you care more about the pockets back there.
Some jeans have patch pockets, which have a flat top and angular sides. When you get into some specialty jean brands and especially slacks and other non-denim pants though, you risk running into pants with rounded pockets.
The roundness of your pockets combined with the roundness of your rear creates a double-trouble nightmare that will only make your butt look more obvious, not less. Always buy jeans and pants with patch pockets or anything angular, but not round.
On the note of jeans pockets, pass on any pants with flap pockets. These will only add bulk to your butt. Plus, their size and shape naturally draw the eye in that direction, which you don’t want either.
- Obscure Your Rear in Flowing Materials
Rounded versus patch pockets, dark denim versus distressed, it’s a lot to take in at once. That’s why in the second half of this post, we have some tips that you can implement today, right now, in as many minutes as it takes you to get dressed in the morning.
This first tip of that nature is so super simple. Do you have any sort of jacket or top that’s loose, flowy, long, and open? Then you can make your butt look less apparent right now. Here are some garment choices you might try on.
- Kimono: Kimonos are still an it wardrobe item to have in your closet. You might buy yours a size or two bigger so it fits especially loosely and has a good length. You’ll look easy-breezy and on-trend, especially in the spring and early summer!
- Cardigan: In the same vein as the kimono is a cardigan. Most people think of chunky sweater cardis only, but a cardigan can be made of almost any material, be that sheer lace or soft cotton. Plus, a cardigan dresses up many outfits, from a nice button-down shirt and slacks to a t-shirt and jeans.
- Kaftan: A kaftan is a long, often floor-length tunic that comes from Asiatic regions but has been adopted by countless other cultures. It’s work-appropriate and also a great garment to wear for girls’ night out or that hot date you have next Tuesday.
- Dress: You may shy away from dresses because of the size of your butt, but it doesn’t have to be that way. By all means, skip the body-con dresses, but those that are more form-fitting up top and then loose and ruffled from the waist down or even a big, roomy maxi will make your butt less noticeable.
- Try a Long Shirt Over Pants
Here’s another of those quick hacks that hides a large butt if you need to make amendments to your wardrobe sooner rather than later. It’s like the loose, flowy kimono or kaftan trick, but this time, there’s no need to layer up. Just take one of your longer shirts and wear it over a pair of pants.
This can be a tunic-style shirt that has a naturally longer fit or even an oversized t-shirt worn untucked. Sweaters and jackets that fit the bill are also appropriate to wear here. You’re really not limited in your shirt choice as long as it fits over your butt.
A somewhat looser fit for the shirt is better though. If your top is long but tight, then it will just bring all that attention back to your butt.
Once you look at some Pinterest boards or your favorite fashionista’s Instagram, you’ll realize you have lots of options for pairing a longer shirt with pants without looking stuffy or lazy. You’ll feel confident dressing this way, plus, this gives you a chance to wear some of your lighter-colored pants until you can phase them out with something darker.
Invest in Shapewear
If you like your wardrobe as is but you just wish your butt could be smaller, we may be able to make your wish our command. Shapewear can shrink your trouble spots without the need for weight loss.
Rather than a shapewear top, you want shaping underwear or leggings. Most shapewear for the rear is high-waisted so it can make your thighs and hips looks similarly smaller. Your rear will be more streamlined than you’ve maybe ever seen it.
Conclusion
If the size of your butt makes you feel self-conscious, the 10 tips in this article prove that you can still dress like the fashion queen you are without bringing all the attention to your rear. Finally, you can focus on accentuating the other nice parts of you and enjoy the confidence you’ve long since deserved.
