How to Wear Animal Print Maxi Dresses

Animal print is a severe and very challenging print to wear. It’s something that can make you look highly fashionable and stylish if done right but can also make you look a disaster even with very tiny mistake.

Wearing little animal print in your outfit is easier to handle than wearing huge ensemble such as animal print maxi dresses. But fret not. You don’t need to be a celebrity or a model to perfectly pull off a fabulous animal print maxi dress. All you need are techniques on how to make it right. Before you put on any of your animal print maxi dresses, check these tips:

See: How to Wear Animal Print

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Choose the right dress

It’s important that you pick the right animal print maxi dress for you. You’ll have to consider the shade that supplements your skin color, the patterns that would go along your figure, the style and cut of the dress itself and the fitting.

You must be comfortable with the cut. By that, I mean that you make sure the dress itself is stylish and perfect to flaunt your assets. You wouldn’t want the print to subdue you just like what it did to Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen’s animal print.

Glee's animal print maxi dress
I chose the maxi dress that flatters my slim figure

Choose the right accessory

It’s important that you choose the right accessories for your animal print maxi dresses. After all, it’s with the accessories that girls easily commit mistakes. The colors must jibe with the print. If you choose to match, make sure the accessories have finer prints.

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Animal print comes in different variations. The tiger print, for example, usually comes in bigger patterns with light brown as background shade, the leopard print is much more fierce and darker, the zebra print usually comes in diagonal/stripe patterns of dark brown or black and white, and there are even more creative colored animal prints such as dark pink, purple, etc.

The thing is, you must know how to play with colors.

Jennifer Lopez's animal print maxi dress
Jennifer Lopez’s animal print cut out maxi dress behind screams fashion with matching accessories

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Serena’s daring animal print combination

When in doubt, better stick with plain dark brown or black for shoes and bags.

Choose the length that perfectly goes with your personality or the occasion

If you feel intimidated by a long animal print maxi dress, then go for a mini-maxi dresses. Showing off more flesh can tone down the fierceness of this print. Make sure that your footwear gives your dress justice.

Pick a shimmering pair of silver or gold strapped shoes because it has the ability to demand attention, automatically shifting the eyes from the dress down to your shoes.

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Model Jessica Stam bared more skin to tone down this animal print maxi dress