1) Practice Good Posture

Ideal posture can do wonders for your height. Excessive curvatures due to overuse and chronic stress compress the natural length of the spinal column, so straightening these curvatures out by stretching specific muscles and strengthening others is a great way to appear taller and more confident.

Here is a useful diagram of good posture as compared with bad posture too:

The Alexander Technique is helpful too in having better posture:

2) Try a hairstyle that is thin at the sides, and tall on the top.

If your hair is long enough, having it stand up can add inches to your height. Any issue of your local fashion magazine will probably have at least 5 different hairstyles you can find in photographs that honor the principle of being tall on the top and short on the sides. This ‘double strategy’ can be used to achieve the illusion of height. Here are examples of haircuts that do that:

3) Conceal your belt by blending it in with your clothes.

When using fashion and style to appear taller, you want vertical lines or stripes that create the illusion of added height, not horizontal ones as these achieve the opposite effect. Since belts are horizontal, you want to blend belts into your outfit by making it the same color as your shirt (or possibly pants).

4) Wear shirts with vertical lines or stripes.

Vertical lines and stripes create the illusion that you are taller. It’s a visual trick that both men and women use all the time (especially on television) and there is no reason why you shouldn’t use it to your advantage either.

5) Wear jackets with shoulder pads.

Jackets with shoulder pads make your shoulders appear broader and create that tapered ‘V’ upper body which helps you look taller and more athletic.

As men, we all have an ideal physique we’d love to achieve. This varies from guy to guy, but there are some general areas that we can all agree on and that is that we all want to be taller and we all want the ‘V’ (wider shoulders and narrower waist).

Wearing jackets and coats with shoulder pads can help you achieve this look, and as a result, people will make positive assumptions about you.

6) Wear a coat or jacket that is of the perfect length.

A coat of jacket should end where the buttocks meet the legs. A poorly fitted jacket is not only a fashion disaster; it has a negative effect on your height image.

Compliment a jacket with perfect length with shoulder pads (along with the other strategies you’ve being given) and you can instantly appear taller to everyone… wherever you are.

7) Match your pants’ color with your shoes to make the legs look longer.

Matching the color of your pants with your shoes is a great way to create the illusion that you have longer legs.

Making the belt the same colour as the pants simply looks like your pants so this doesn’t achieve the same effect as having the right shoes does (note that Altitude Shoes come in various colours and shades for this reason!).

8 ) Lengthen your upper body by wearing a belt that matches your top.

This adheres to the same principle in the strategy above - colour matching.

A belt doesn’t do much for your lower body, but the upper body is a different story.

Matching your belt with your shirt creates the same illusion that matching your pants with your shoes does, and it’s a great way to appear taller.

9) Use Dark Colors

Dark colours such as black, blue, and grey project power and competency. In today’s society, people respond to power, competency and confidence. People with power and confidence seem taller and more intimidating even if they are actually physically not. This is an interesting psychological effect and one that you can take advantage of.

Thus, to complement your height, dark colours can help you exude greater confidence and this will earn even more respect among your friends, co-workers and others in your world.

10) Wear Height Increasing Altitude Shoes.

Of course, finally, you should wear Height Increasing Altitude Shoes. You can become 2-4 inches taller instantly just by changing your footwear and wearing Altitude Shoes.

Height starts from the ground up, so why not start by adding height there ?

James
Altitude Shoes