Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine are known around the world as the hosts of the hit British television series What Not to Wear. The two have become stars by offering up no-nonsense (and brutally honest) advice on how women can dress to best suit their figures. Here, we've excerpted from their book What Not to Wear (Riverhead Books). See what they say about how to dress around short legs.

If you've got or don't want perfect breasts, then it will be long legs you're after. These, like lovely breasts, are a reason to hate anyone who owns them, especially as cosmetic surgery is yet to perfect a method of increasing the inside leg measurement. Trinny sympathizes wholly with stump owners. She's had them all her life. Rather than live with them, though, she has learned how to hide them, quite brilliantly. No one would guess that lurking beneath those long-line jackets and fully flared trousers are pins better attached to one of Snow White's small friends. If she can give the illusion of legs to rival Elle Macpherson's, anyone can. And like all easily solved problems, it frustrates us immensely to see women who have given in to the fact that they are Corgis rather than Great Danes.

Golden Rules for Short Legs

Cropped trousers will only accentuate your lack of leg.
Never wear tight trousers ‑- they will only draw attention to where your butt ends and your legs begin.
Always wear your hem to the ground when wearing trousers with high heels.
Never wear a skirt that has a second dropped waistband; your already short legs will halve again in size.
Dresses over trousers cover up where legs begin.
Keep the color flowing ‑- same on shoe, sock and trouser.
If you can't walk in your high heels, they won't give you confidence.