Finding the right skirt for your body type can be tricky business. Short skirts don’t work well on tall frames and a long flowing skirt can drown out women of a shorter variety. One type of skirt that works well on a multitude of frames is the pencil skirt. If your ultra tall the skirt may fall a little above the knee but it will remain long enough to be wearable at any age. However on short frames, pencil skirts hit a little lower than the normal knee length, but they are not nearly long enough to wash out a plus size petite figure.

What is nice about this black pencil style skirt from Torrid is that the trumpet feature provides extra room to move which is normally lacking from more rigid pencil skirt designs. The black color creates a slimming effect that’s good for any body type. A pencil skirt like this one can create definition and a waist for a figure that lacks curves, while on an already curvy frame this trumpet skirt would only accentuate features that already exist. However, women looking to downplay the features of an extreme pear-shape may want to stay away from this hip-accentuating piece. It comes in sizes 12 to 28.