To be tall, or not to be tall.

yer that must suck aye

knumpcy wrote:

finding clothes to fit properly @ 6ft3in or 190.50 cm can be a challenge and not much of a joy for most other things either.

I have a similar issue. It's very difficult finding clothes for one of my height (5 ft) that isn't made for 12 year olds and under.

Very awkward buying any clothing really..'Petite' ranges are too long, limb-wise..Corsets are usually too long for my torso..Bah. It's very irritating. Even 'mini-skirts' are quite long on me.

knumpcy wrote:

finding clothes to fit properly @ 6ft3in or 190.50 cm can be a challenge and not much of a joy for most other things either.

I can feel with you. I have the same problem. Everything is too short. Almost more then half of my cloths are custom made for me or bought clothes are altered somehow to be longer... I almost always get a bit depressed when I go to a shop and just go through the clothes saying short, short, short and often small, small, small...
I think it's harder to find clothes for us tall people then for those shorter (and smaller) folks. You can always get a seamstress to fit the clothes to a smaller frame, while there isn't so easy to make those clothes bigger as you usually need more material...

black_magnolia wrote:

I think it's harder to find clothes for us tall people then for those shorter (and smaller) folks. You can always get a seamstress to fit the clothes to a smaller frame, while there isn't so easy to make those clothes bigger as you usually need more material...

True..Once I had a dress that was made too short, even for me, and it was extremely difficult to lengthen it, due to it being difficult finding material that matched. Generally I end up altering all of the clothes I buy. >.< Good ol' sewing machine..

I'm about 5'6\", so average height for a woman, I guess. I still have trouble with clothes though, because I'm so picky. I find that anything that looks good on the hanger is going to look awful on me, so I have to really rummage through the racks and try on lots of things, to find one or two items that will suit me. I can sew a bit, but not enough to try to make clothes, and my alterations would stop at changing a hem, or maybe fixing a small tear on a seam, for fear of ruining the item altogether.

Morgana wrote:

I'm about 5'6\", so average height for a woman, I guess. I still have trouble with clothes though, because I'm so picky. I find that anything that looks good on the hanger is going to look awful on me, so I have to really rummage through the racks and try on lots of things, to find one or two items that will suit me. I can sew a bit, but not enough to try to make clothes, and my alterations would stop at changing a hem, or maybe fixing a small tear on a seam, for fear of ruining the item altogether.

I'm attempting to learn to make/alter some clothes (usually my mother alters things for me). Starting by buying some cheap tops and just cutting them up and experimenting really. I end up buying a lot that looks nice, but I also dislike how it ends up looking on me. All of my proportions seem to be wrong. >.<! Especially for dresses. My hip bones are usually where the waist is meant to be on dresses, so I look really abnormal.