A tall women public service announcement

I had some friends over for dinner the other weekend and, novelty of great novelties, I was the shortest person in the room (and yes, there were two other girls included). It is something of a rarity for me to find myself looking up to other women. Then on Saturday I was catching up with one of said tall women and she was telling me about Long Tall Sally, a British company that makes clothes especially for - you guessed it - tall women. (Because despite what you see paraded up and down catwalks on very tall women the world over, those aren't you clothes you can buy in any clothing shop I know.)

I'm not actually super duper tall as far as tall goes, being just short (hah!) of 5'11" (5'10" and three-quarters if you ask me) and nowhere near 6 foot (as I like to say) - and you do have to be the other side of 6 foot as a woman to make the "tall" cut, if you so happened to want to join up to some kind of tall club to hang around with other tall people. So mostly I can find ordinary clothes that work, though they do usually have to be the more expensive brands of things to fit anywhere near properly (that's my excuse anyway! - but cheap (and oftentimes nasty) Asian clothes rarely cut it for me). However, every now and then it might be nice to have something that had the waist (sometimes dresses don't look right because the waist is too high) or the knees in the right place, so I have signed up for the newsletter and I am going to browse over there every now and then. My friend and I agree that we wouldn't wear all of their stuff, but they do have some nice things and some good wardrobe basics (though the problem is the seasons are reversed, so you'd have to shop in advance).

That's all. This post is simply written in the service of tall women everywhere.