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As a woman? Brands that think tall ladies are just short women on stilts, so the pants are too short through the rise and shirts too short. We are not all legs! I can get a fit in pants by buying from the few places that have legit tall women's clothes and then hemming them to fit.
Very close second place is bra shopping, same sort of problem - cup size scales up with wire diameter, but in general small boobs are not small around, they are just flatter, and on the other side big boobs can have narrow roots. They need 3 measurements not 2, like band length, wire diameter and cup volume all need to be moving parts.
Tall women are attractive. So feel better. :)
Tall women (5' 7" / 170cm +) walk elegantly and have a poise often denied their shorter counterparts.
Never be worried about being tall. I wish I had been blessed. Both wives were 5'4". I'm 6' 183cm.
I am about the same height as my husband (5'9") and was about the same height as my ex too, but his ex was tiny, and I joke with him about it because his sons are shorter than him, tell him tall ladies make tall kids, he should have planned better!
So really I'm not even that tall, just taller than women's regular clothes are. At least they make them now, Gap and Madewell are both serious about tall sizes, the rise on those fits well, the inseam too long for me but that's an easier adjustment.
And yeah I feel bad for really short ladies too, if the petites are just shorter inseams that won't work either!
Husband is a lucky guy. I guess your ex was hoping for mean reversion (there's a more appropriate mathematical term that I just can't think of as I write), with/for his children..
I had a best friend as a sixth former (17-18 yo) who was around your height; I lost my bf because the person I was engaged (then married) to didn't like her. Subconsciously, I've probably always compared everyone to her and the grace and poise with which she presented herself. I'm old now.
Scandinavian girls seem to be a reasonable height. I haven't spend enough time over there to know for certain that it's really a thing; and I wasn't that sad to want to look it up! Wonder if that would suit too? It's not the 80s anymore though, sadly, and dressing is very different and difficult now.
5'9" is tall. Hope you get to work/wear it well! I want to say 'congratulations' .. it doesn't make any sense but congratulations anyway! You/he won the lottery.
Your experience as a tall person and mine as a short person makes me wonder if these clothing makers have ever met a woman in real life. It's like they are designing based a description of a woman they heard 5 years ago.