10 Saree Draping Hacks for Short Girls & Tips to Look Slim

Are you ready to elevate your saree game and look absolutely stunning? Saree draping hacks have made it easier than ever to drape this timeless attire flawlessly.

However, achieving the perfect saree look still requires a bit of finesse. That’s where our easy and effective saree hacks come into play, designed to help you appear slimmer and ensure that short girls can rock the saree with confidence.

Shopping the right saree is the first step towards a flawless look. Consider this: a large printed saree might not be the best choice for those with an apple-shaped body, while knowing how to pleat an organza saree can work wonders for slim figures.

Join us as we unveil the best saree hacks and invaluable saree tips, all aimed at helping you achieve that picture-perfect saree look. Say goodbye to wardrobe dilemmas and hello to saree perfection

Saree Draping Hacks and Tips

Best Saree Tips for Short Women

  1. Consider choosing the right fabric of saree for short ladies is a must. You cannot choose to wear a cotton saree with large panels, it only cuts down your figure.
    1. A flowy saree fabric is the best choice. Satin saree, crepe saree, georgette saree, or net sarees, and of course soft silk sarees look good.
    2. Saree can have diagonal lines or zigzag lines, this adds more height to the person wearing the saree.
  2. When wearing a saree blouse and petticoat, choose a high waist blouse that ends under your immediate bust line, and wear your petticoat at least 3 fingers below your navel. This increases the look of your torso and eventually adds height to your saree outfit look.
  3. Lower skirt drape pleats of saree for short girls need to be smaller in width, more lines will add more vertical lines. Also overlapping one over the other a bit in front with a small gap shows more lines. Try this Saree pleats hack for short women’s saree draping.
  4. Wearing a saree with a tight hip finish is needed in any body shape, hourglass, slim, or apple shape. There are two ways of making the side cowl pleats of saree draping. Try the hip pleat saree hacks shown in the video, one for flowy fabrics, and another way for heavy silks or soft silk sarees.
  5. Choosing the right detailed saree for short girls. Wear sarees with small borders even if it is a kanjivaram or south silk saree.
    1. Avoid many broad border work details in embellishment too.
    2. Smaller to medium printed sarees look beautiful on short women to slim ladies.

Stylish Saree Draping Hacks to Look Slim

  1. The same tricks can be used as above for plus-size or heavy body shape women. But there are some more Saree Tips to Look slimmer. Wearing a saree that has lines, vertical lines again gives a slimmer look.
  2. Don’t wear a very transparent saree or fabric that hugs your body too much. Net fabric or Organza fabric will not make you look slimmer. But choose a chiffon saree, soft silk saree, and cotton silk sarees for a slimmer look.
  3. Making the right lower skirt pleats hacks for saree to look slim, if you are wearing a stiff fabric like thick silks, or cotton, make bigger pleats, you don’t want to add bulge on the tummy area and lesser pleats will work well.
  4. Choosing a saree Draping method to look slimmer. If you are a pear shape or inverted triangle, the Saree into lehenga draping style works best for you. It’s an easy way to style a saree like a lehenga choli with vertical pleats around your petticoat or skirt. See the post on how to wear a saree into a lehenga in 3 different ways.
  5. Wearing a net saree hack would be to wear a plain or contrast lehenga and blouse then your saree. Most net saree require a special petticoat, as they show through the saree.

Additional Saree Hacks for Net Saree

Try this Stylish saree hack for net saree by wearing a contrast lehenga.

  • This can be draped into a half-lehenga saree look. See the video above, last saree hack to see how to wear a net saree on a lehenga to look slim.
  • Wearing it with many pleats in the front skirt drape and cowls on the hips side gives the illusion of lines adding more height and giving you a taller and slimmer look.
  • If you need to cover your tummy section, wear a saree in half pleats so it becomes less transparent yet has the pretty lower drape pleats showing and side hip cowl pleats.

Of course, there are so many more saree hacks to look perfect and drape a saree to compliment your body shape. To see basic saree draping styles read the blog post.