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The Illusion of Stripes: What Everyone Online Gets Wrong

Five dresses in a row, a tidy little caption underneath, and a confident promise that vertical stripes will make you look taller and horizontal stripes will make you look wider.

The Illusion of Stripes: What Everyone Online Gets Wrong

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Five dresses in a row, a tidy little caption underneath, and a confident promise that vertical stripes will make you look taller and horizontal stripes will make you look wider.

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Five dresses in a row, a tidy little caption underneath, and a confident promise that vertical stripes will make you look taller and horizontal stripes will make you look wider. It is also, in the most important way, wrong.

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It is also, in the most important way, wrong.

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