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They say horizontal stripes make you fat. But who tf eats horizontal stripes?
Aren’t french fries horizontal stripes depending how you hold them?
I should really start eating my fries vertically
They’re better diagonal tbh.
That's why I eat mine up and down like a baby bird
If you’re only chewing your own fries you’re missing out on a great family activity.
Thanks, I threw up in my mouth a little bit.
That’s the spirit.
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I call shenanigans!
Not same pose. Look at the different size gaps between elbows and body.
When they said the same pose, they just mean they are front facing, arms to the side, as opposed to different positions for each dress. It's pretty darn close. She had to change dresses between shots, so the poses aren't going to be perfectly identical, but they are close enough to make the point that a person looks different depending on the stripes.
Do you really think that extra half inch of daylight between her arm and body somehow faked the result?
The way to do this would be to edit the dress in Photoshop or similar. One picture, three designs and the model is the same in each.
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Gj. Thanks for demonstrating this picture is bs.
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Brb tossing out any horizontal stripes I have left from my closet.
Wait what about flannel? The stripes are perpendicular, so would they cancel each other out?🤔
Horizontal lines are known to do that but I think the photos aren't equivalent either way. If you cover the dress up or shoulders down, the middle one has a bigger gap between her legs and wider face without being able to see the stripes from what I see.
Loading it into an editor she has about an inch less per hip in the diagonal picture. Its pretty significant.
Ah I see it now. You can also tell by looking at the gap differences between her waist and arms.
Horizontal stripes actually look great on a skinny person. Or any person, if the pattern is good by itself — while these black/white stripes aren't really a shining example of that (though they would work on a twig-shaped heroine in a 60s French new-wave film).
Vertical stripes are typically boring imo.
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Flannel's plaid disrupts any curves so it's pretty good for covering up bellies in particular. A big reason I'm a fan of the season of flannel (plus scarfs are nice, too).
Plaid is great in all seasons. I have many pearl snap plaid shirts ranging from thick and warm flannel to super thin beach flannel to just the cotton shirts.
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First one: I better watch out, she'll call a foul on me
Second one: I better watch out, she's probably a felon on the run
Third one: I can't watch out because I don't know where she is
Something feels manipulated about this, but it also feels like the author/photographer went out of their way to make sure you couldn't prove it was manipulated
What you're likely seeing as throwing you off is differences because this is an actual human wearing this - PLUS it's essentially an optical illusion. This isn't 3 versions of the same image with just the pattern changed. So yeah, these are actually not perfectly matching up if you overlay them on top of each other. I wouldn't say manipulated per se, just that they're 3 different images so they'll have some differences.
Yup.
So let's take the body/pose on the right, copy it to all three positions mask the dress only, and overlay only the dress pattern in the same mask to actually show the differences between the patterns only.
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I agree with you, but if you measure the width of the dress at the tip of her fingers, the left and right are about 99-100 pixels, while the middle one is 105 pixels wide. Her face in all three images is about 38-39 pixels wide (measured at the earlobe), so that rules out they stretched the entire image slightly. But 5 pixels is significant enough to kind of muddy the validity of the OP's message since it no longer rules out all but the appearance of the dress. It sadly happens that sometimes effects are exaggerated, even when there is a real effect at play.
Also, when people are trying to make a point, inadvertently they'll stand differently and have different posture ever so subtly.
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If you zoom in and measure distances in pixels you'll see it's manipulated.
I think the biggest difference is the cut of the dress.
Bingo
Look at the amount of visible background inside the elbows. They are each increasing in conforming the body as you move to the right.
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(from left to right) a) trying to look slim b) about to escape from prison in 1930 c) trying to confound enemy nation's Navy
The first one looks like a bottle, the second looks chubbier, and the third looks great.
Very effective demonstration, actually kind of impressive how successful it was.
She has different proportions in each picture. I can't tell if it was three different pictures, or they edited one picture and shaved down some spots depending on the dress.
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It’s funny how they also represent an era. Vertical stripes=50s horizontal=90s/early 2000s, slanted =futurama
Razzle dazzle camouflage!
I'm genuinely surprised so many people are familiar with this.
It's something talked about in perception courses/classes.
The lines make it difficult for humans and machines to accurately gauge depth perception.
For humans it's related to mach bands. And the way lateral inhibition works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_bands https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lateral_inhibition&wprov=rarw1
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I thought everyone knew that stripes change your perception of something. In this case a lady.
It's not the clothes that make you fat, it's the ~~nutritional choices~~ lack of ozempic
It’s not the clothes that make you fat, it’s the ~~nutritional choices~~ ~~lack of ozempic~~ fat
lol
So which one is supposed to be the good one? Her body looks identical to me in all three photos.
Really? To my eyes, the vertical stripes are unflattering, the horizontal stripes accentuate her figure in a good way, and the diagonal stripes make her look somewhat slimmer
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Can someone repost this using something other than Imgur? They block the UK and Mullvad (though if someone is using Mullvad and can access it, let me know what server you're using please)
EDIT: nevermind, I can see it through the web version of Lemmy, just not through Sync or Imgur directly
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3,2,1
Despite being the same lovely woman, I am infinitely more attracted to her in the horizontal stripes.
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