The Best Fashion for Petites

The Dress and Jacket Strategy

Teresa Nivar
Police Officer
33, 5'4"

Uniforms don't come in petite sizes, so Nivar has hers taken in.

• Pinstripes look professional and give an enhanced vertical line.
• Switch to evening simply by removing the jacket.
• "Petite sizes aren't just smaller than misses'; they're proportioned differently, with shorter neck-to-waist and waist-to-hip measurements," says Kim Williams Dahlman, author of The Petite Handbook