I was surprised to find in this thread about tall people finding clothes to fit, how many people are taller than me. I’m 6’5", and I’ve always been sensitive about my height. I get stared at a lot, and sometimes get rude comments.
Are you sensitive about your height - or lack of it?
Not sensitive at all. But then, I’m a white American male and I’m 5’ 11"- doesn’t get more average than that.
Luckily, I’m nearly perfectly average (5’10") and most people around me are shorter than me.
I’m a little short for my weight… but other than that, at nearly 6 feet I’m fine with my height.
On and off, yes.
My adolescence was marred by height paranoia - I stopped growing aged 15 and never progressed (about the time I started smoking - is there any truth to the “it’ll stunt your growth” adage?) beyond 5’6", leaving me at one end of the bell curve in my class. I used to beg my dad to fund the operation where they break your legs and stretch them a few inches until the bone grows in to fill - seriously.
This lasted until I started to pull women, especially tall ones.
It was a bit of a concern when I was single recently, but has evaporated again now I am going out with a shortie*.
*Not the rap slang meaning of this word.
I’m average in height. I feel so-so about it.
Very. At 6’4" I’d be forever bumping my head on things if I weren’t.
My height is so average, average length womens pants fit me. My height saves me a lot on alterations.
I’m a just-shy of 5’10" chick - which means in most heels I’m over 6’.
I tend to wear flats around men who are closer to my height because I don’t like feeling like the big oafy girl towering over them. But I love high heels.
My boyfriend insists it doesn’t bother him, but I guess it bothers me when he looks up at me vs. me looking up at him. He’s just under 6" - but most of my heels are 3" or greater.
Sometimes being tall makes me chuckle - most of my bosses usually come to my desk to chat and always are surprised when they see me in the hallway and I tower over them.
But in my head, I guess, I view myself as much shorter than I am. It often surprises me when I’m not.
Totally frustrated about my lack of height (female, smidge over 5’1). I have to use one of those grabber things to get anything off the top shelves of our kitchen cupboards. The other day I couldn’t reach an item on the top shelf of a grocer’s freezer; no taller people were anywhere around for me to ask for help (a frequent necessity that is pretty frustrating in itself). Finally noticed a long BBQ fork for sale near the freezer and could use the fork to dislodge and move forward what I wanted to buy. Asked directions in a store recently and the guy said “It’s in the aisles under that flag”–great, but I was too short to see the flag he was referring to. My feet never reach the floor in typical chairs, hanging down like a 5-year-old’s and cutting off the circulation behind my knees. Pants have to be shortened, ruining the cut of the leg. In order to reach the car pedals I have to sit so close to the steering wheel that the air bag will likely do some serious damage if it deploys. It’s just endless… Although I suppose I have gone slightly OT since I’m not sensitive about it, just aggravated. Excuse the rant.
I’m a wee, pointy elf, leaping and racing around all day. So I am not comfortable with recent photos of a broad-shouldered man standing half an inch more than 6 ft.
Being a 6’5" guy, I’m not really sensitive about it at all. I guess being a tall guy is a good thing. But, if you ever see a tall woman, she knows she’s tall. Don’t ask her if she’s a basketball player. Or volleyball player. Don’t comment on it. My wife is 6’ tall. She’s fine about her height now, but throughout high school especially, she was sensitive about it.
I’m 5’8". No. I get a bit tall in heels, but it fends off the insecure guys, so I like.
I could have written this - me, too! If no one tall is around, I’ve gone to the office supply section and borrowed a yardstick to hook that bag of corn curls on the top shelf…Other than that, no big deal. Except clothes. I have never bought an item of clothing that didn’t need shortening, even ‘petite’ sizes. Some years ago the pants fashion was tapered- at- the -ankles, and trying to shorten that hemline was a frustrating nightmare!
I’ve always enjoyed my height; at 5-9 I’m around the height of most men, so I don’t feel at a disadvantage. I do, however, feel sort of a giagantor around tiny little women, though — who have told me that they’re frequently literally overlooked. So at least that doesn’t ever happen.
Pretty sensitive, yeah. I’m only 5’6". Definitely a Napoleon complex going on over here. It all started in middle school, where kids will crucify anyone that’s different from the group. My best friends ended up being the fat girl and the (other) smart kid. It’s a big reason why I now act the way I do, definitely.
Aggravated at times, yes. Sensitive? Not usually.
At 6’ give or take a half inch depending who measures I’ve mostly given up on being sensitive. I once had a classmate in college drag me before a mirror to compare our heights (she was Asian and maybe 5’ or so).
My problem with clothes is I’m longer in the torso than the legs. Luckily most tall pants in regular stores fit as I have to hem practically everything at the Tall Girl store! (seriously… My inseam is 33" the inseam at Tall Girl starts at 36").
Don’t ask me about sports though. I was so clumsy then I never played them and never got used to heels now so anything over an inch and I feel very weird.
I’m 6’6" and I love being this tall. Our whole family is tall: sis is 5’10, mother 5’11, dad 6’4 and brother 6’5 - it’s very easy to find each other in a crowd. I can’t remember getting stared much though or getting any rude comments, if quips made by friends don’t count and even those have no cutting edge against me since I’m perfectly comfortable with my height.
There’s some slight downsides, like annoying people behind me in movie theaters, hitting my head against door frames in old buildings, towels and beds being a bit short and so on, but the advantages (better visibility, longer reach and stride etc) outweight them easily. It’s not very hard to find clothes either, at least here, though if I was just a bit taller then I might run into problems on that front.
Heh. I have a very good friend who has the same, exact personality as I do, but looks the exact opposite. She’s maybe 5’2" very thin and pale. I’m a half foot taller, dark and curvy. When I wear heels next to her, it looks like someone deliberately built my exact opposite to stand next to me for contrast.
5’9" woman here - I like my height, but having long legs and not being able to buy pants off the rack at many/most stores is kind of annoying. It really sucked in middle/high school when I would get teased for wearing “highwater” pants, so at least I have money and access to options now as an adult.