All the Tall Things

6'0" Laura's Blog

I LOVE being tall. Not five-foot-seven -"Gosh I'm the tallest out of my friends" – tall but six-foot-"I am actually the tallest bloody person I know"-tall. I love the comments, the second glances, the clichéd questions from complete strangers and the fact that I was allowed on all the scary theme park rides by the age of 8.

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C4RW - Clothes for Real Women

6'0" Vivienne's Blog

Originally a Human Resources professional, Vivienne has always had a passion for fashion and fabric and is now the owner of Bespoke Personal Styling Concierge Service and an Executive Operations Director for TVLHC a creative global fashion platform that successfully delivered two shows at London Fashion Week. As an experienced fitting model for a top international lingerie label and a global retailer, Vivienne spent 4 years working part-time in the lingerie and women's department of a famous international department store.

Vivienne comes with over 20 years' experience of designing, making her own clothes and styling women. As a stylist who trained at the London College of Fashion, she has a unique perspective on the understanding of fabric and how clothes should fit to create the style that's right for your body.

Vivienne is not just your average woman. Standing at 6ft, a 'height goddess', she often says 5ft 12 to confuse people, and it is not unusual to see her wearing 4-inch heels, with such a presence that, once you have met her, it will be hard to forget her.

Like most women, she has struggled with self-confidence and image and has a unique understanding of the difficulties and dilemmas many women have about clothing. Having been though all the issues about understanding her proportions and finding clothes that fit, she has learned to love her uniqueness by maximising what she has. Passionate about empowering and inspiring women to change how they dress and feel about themselves. Change can be scary, but it's through change that great things happen.

A native of London, England, and a world traveller, 'have passport, will travel' is her motto. She loves shoes, cake and meeting new people.

You can find out more about Vivienne's Personal Styling Concierge Service by emailing her directly at viv[@]clothes4realwomen.com or via the contact form. She is also on Twitter as the GoddessofGlamour.

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Call Me Miss

6'6" Chantelle's Blog

Hey Miss!

I'm your lifestyle blogger, Chantelle. How'd I get the awesome job of helping you make sense of all this craziness? Lol.

What I believe: In life, there should be no rules, just principles. And when you live by principles, your decisions get way easier.

I'm an eternal optimist, a reluctant hopeless romantic, and honest to a fault. I believe that most of us are not getting enough out of our selves, our lives and our relationships because we don't put the right things into them.

Life is crazy! But through all the noise, you gotta figure out exactly who "you" are, and then be that, intentionally. Because you'll never be real being anyone else.

I believe my experience can save you time and even pain. Because I've learned how to build my dream life, what to do (and not do) when it falls apart and how to get everything back bigger and better than before. I've learned things that work no matter where you are, and other things that are guaranteed to blow up in your face.

The world will try to break you, change you and kill your spirit. Sometimes, you'll need someone unbiased to tell you to fight, or even to show you how. I'm volunteering for that.

I believe ladies should respect themselves and set their own standards, instead of blaming men for all the relationship problems of the world. Be the one you need, and you'll be the one he needs.

Here on Call Me Miss, I'll challenge you to be excellent instead of above average. Because there are enough people out here just tryna make it. That's not me, or you. I'll show you principles you can live by, help you find youself and then love youself, and prove to you – and everyone else – that you really can Have It All.

So excited about this journey. Lets get it.

Talk Soon,

Chantelle

P.S. Some things that my manager told me to add because he thinks it might impress you...

After being a 3-time basketball All-American and graduating from Vanderbilt University, I played in the WNBA and Europe for six years. I was also a college coach for three years and now I work in Corporate America. I have done hundreds of speaking engagements on self-esteem, sports, success and making it against the odds. My life changed for the better when I decided to follow Jesus for real. Now I do everything to make Him proud and other people's lives better. Hope you enjoy the site! Muah!

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Fashion for Giants

6'0" Gracey's blog

I'm not a real giant (I suspect you knew that though, didn't you?), but I am quite tall (six foot in my stocking feet) and plus-sized to boot. All bodies have their challenges when it comes to style - this blog is about my style challenges as a giant. On a budget. And, sadly, not a budget commensurate to my giant size. Ah, well, one does what one can.

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Georgie's Diary

6'4" Georgina's Blog

My name is Georgie, I am 6ft4, 20 years old, on my blog I will share my own views, hope you enjoy the read x

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My 6'2 1/2" friend Kim Glass (who is also listed in the Famous Tall Ladies section) has just created a new website which includes a blog. Kim won an Olympic silver medal with the US ladies volleyball team in Beijing and is a great role model.

This was taken off her website because she can tell you about herself better than I ever could:

At the age of 17, Kim was the number 2 recruit in the country, and was named the 2001 Pennsylvania State Gatorade Player of the year. Kim attended the University of Arizona, where she became the 2002 National Freshman of the year, and became the first Wildcat to record 2,000 kills. She still holds the records for aces and kills, as well as many other records in categories amongst the now, Pac-12, (formerly the pac-10). In 2010, she was inducted into the University of Arizona Hall of Fame. In 2015 Kim was inducted into the Pac-12 All Century Team.

After leaving college, Kim played professionally for nine years, & lived in eight different countries, including Italy, Puerto Rico, Turkey, Russia, Czech Republic, Azerbaijan, China, & Brasil. Amidst her professional career, she competed in the 2008 Beijing Games as the youngest player on the team, and became a U.S. women’s Indoor Volleyball Olympic Silver Medalist.

Combating disc herniations and a desire to move on, she retired from volleyball in 2014. Intrigued with the body and her love for health & wellness, in addition to wanting to learn and educate people on how to prevent injuries, she made the transition into the fitness industry in 2015. Jump starting her personal training career w/ her Nasm certification at Equinox and being the “female in-house” trainer at Easton Gym Co. in Manhattan Beach, she relocated to Unbreakable Performance Center where she’s coached a wide range of clients from professional athletes to Hollywood elite. She often went on the road with her clients to ensure their fitness needs were being handled and to keep consistency in training.

In 2011, Kim was featured in the famed Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue, as well as ESPN’s The Body Issue. She continues to work as a model within the fitness and fashion world.

In 2016, she joined the cast of MTV’s The Challenge: Champs vs. Stars, to help raise funds for Covenant House, a non-profit homeless youth shelter, in Los Angeles.

Kim is a trainer, model, television personality, motivational speaker, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. She strives to improve the lives of everyone she meets through her knowledge, experience, and her highly energetic approach to training and coaching.

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LORNA SHERIDAN
INDEX-TRIBUNE MANAGING EDITOR
September 30, 2019, 6:26PMUpdated 7 hours ago

Sonoma Valley Rotarian Greg Brennan’s daughter, Jenna, has launched a lifestyle and clothing blog for tall girls and women. She’s nearly 6 feet 4 inches, herself.

"My family and my wife’s are tall, so we knew Jenna would be, too," said Greg Brennan. "Height was normal as Jenna grew up." Her brothers (6-foot-5 each) and cousins (nearing 6-feet-10 in one case) are tall, as are uncles and aunts – and even grandparents.

"Tall is beautiful’ was a mantra around our house as the kids grew," said Greg.

Not surprisingly, Jenna was a natural at sports. She wound up at U.C. Berkeley (’15) on a soccer scholarship and walked onto the track team to throw the discus.

Today, she works as a digital marketing manager at one of the world’s largest clothing retailers. But her passion project on the side is a blog called "Tall Girl Takeover."

Recently, a woman reached out to Jenna via the blog. The woman has two tall daughters who are really struggling, and she asked Jenna for her advice to get through such a tough phase of life.

Last week, Jenna posted a letter to her 16-year-old self (and all the tall young girls who are struggling to love their height) because she thought it would be helpful to many other tall girls. It’s her advice about growing up six inches taller than other girls. "Life is short. I’m not," says Jenna on her blog. "So let’s have some fun while I navigate life being a foot taller than the average woman."

Follow her blog at www.tgtakeover.com or @TallGirlTakeover_Jenna on Instagram.

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Long Tall Ally

6'2" Ally's Blog

I'm Ally aka Long Tall Ally and these are my Tales from the Scales. If you're looking for clothes for tall women then I'm afraid you won't find them here, you need to visit my friend Sally.

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Love My Long Legs

6'0" Sheri's blog

I'm 6'0 tall and I love my long legs (there's also this unhealthy obsession with giraffes but, whatever). I love being tall so much that I created a blog about it. 

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Ramblings of an Amazon

6'4" Amanda's Blog (who happens to be a good friend of mine)

I am a statuesque, 6'4'', multi-faceted, fun loving, life living woman. When people ask what my likes are, it would actually be easier to tell them my dislikes. There are very few things in life that completely offend me, I have learned that to take offense to others' perceptions, is to limit your own ability to see things differently. I allow myself to absorb whatever is thrown at me, disect it, and essentially let it go. Yes, I may rant for a moment, and some things do stick with me, but overall, life is entirely too short to be burdened by another persons lack of intelligence.

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Tall Swag

6'6" Alicia's Blog

Hey beautiful! I'm Alicia Jay (6'6" club baby!) and I like you have had a frustrated fashion life. Everything was too short, too long in the crotch, grandmaish and outright not cute. After endless terrible options, I thought we needed a spot to go to where everything fit. Bam, boom, POW! TallSWAG.com.

Quickly my blog turned into a place to not only find fashion, but talk about our fabulous tall lives. I want to laugh, cry, share, grow and look ridiculously fierce together.

TallSWAG is more than fashion...it's a freakin fabulous tall life.

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The Height of Style

6'4" Kacy's Blog

I'm Kacy - an artsy, urban (Boston, MA), fashion-obsessed twentysomething with a writing job by day and a stylist job by night/weekends. I've been an ardent daily style blog devotee, and after several failed attempts trying to fall into the typical style blogger mix, I decided to create a style blog catering to women outside the sometimes narrow confines of Wintour-ian fashion ideals (hey, we're not all 5'9 and a size 0!). At 6'4″ tall and anywhere from a size 4 to a size 16 with a size 11-13 shoe, my unique experience is searching for clothes and accessories that fit, flatter, and appeal to my whimsical style sensibility...all the while not breaking the bank. Oh, and also trying to get a good outfit shot that fits my entire body into the frame.

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The Junoesque

6'3" Elayna's Blog

The Junoesque will be a meeting place for all the Junoesque ladies of the world. Ladies of imposing height and beauty. Yes, tall is beautiful no matter what anyone says. This will be a place of refuge from the stares, the gawking, and the endless asinine comments. Because no one can really understand what it's like unless they've been there. Me and my sister are 6'3″ and 6'4″ respectively. That is a foot taller than the "average woman". So needless to say, we've been there.

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Hi!

First of all let me say "Thank You!" for taking the time out to read my blog. My name is Dominique, and I am 6'2". That isn't usually the way I introduce myself, but since this is "The Tall Girl Diaries", I thought it seemed appropriate. I was born in the beautiful city of Stockholm, Sweden and resided there until I was 13 when I moved to Atlanta, GA (A-Town baby!). I lived there for several years until I got bored and decided that better weather was for me and moved to Boca Raton, FL, where I worked as a nanny for a year. I then moved the wonderfully beautiful, and amazing Miami, FL. After having stayed there for a year, I thought I was in love and moved to St. Louis, MO.

I have now been here for the past three years and I have grown to really like it. I have met the love of my life, and we are now living our lives as happy as I think any two people can, and I am blogging my way through the world.

I hope that this blog can reach the young women who aren't yet comfortable with their height, and that I can hopefully inspire them to stand tall and be proud. After all, I wasn't always in love with being tall. I am also hoping to reach the tall women who are loving their height, but just need some help guiding their way through the world of tall girl shopping. I mean, let's be honest here. Tall girl shopping isn't the same as average height shopping. Last but not least, I am hoping to reach all women of all sizes who enjoy fashion, food, and sometimes serious topics.

XO, Dominique

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The Tall Society - by Bree

I have made several attempts in writing this piece and I came to the conclusion that being 100% open and honest with you all will be the way forward. I am sincerely looking forward to connect with my tall sisters worldwide and sharing a piece of who I am will be the first step in getting to know each other better.

My full name is Brunnhilde Wijnaar, but you can call me Bree. I was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Yep so I am Dutch and was born in 'The land of the Tall', or so they say... Well I still towered over all of my friends, but we'll get to that.

I grew up in Rotterdam. In my opinion a great place to learn about the world, its different cultures and diversity. I attended both elementary and high school in Rotterdam. I have to say I have always been a social kid; I was fortunate to have a bunch of friends. At the same time I also was very good in hiding how uncomfortable my rapid growth spurt truly made me. Humor and overconfidence was often what I defaulted to.

So back to the height; today I proudly and confidently stand 6'4 tall.

Was I always as comfortable in my own skin as I am today? Absolutely not.

I was a little taller than average until about age 10 as my mom tells me. Then nature took off and left my family and me in a state of shock. The pace at which I was growing was off the charts, I would grow out of clothes literally weeks after I had gotten them and there was a general feeling of 'What on earth is happening'?

At the time I was a fascinating phenomenon for doctors and several tests later they made the estimation that I would grow to be about 6 feet. Their calculations turned out to be inaccurate as I grew well past the 6 feet mark. By age 14 I was a 6'4 teenager with body of a grown woman.

There is more to my story and I am looking forward to sharing it with you.

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By MARLEN KOMAR

If you're a tall woman that constantly hovers a good head taller than the rest of the crowd, then you might be privy to the usual tall jokes and stigmas. But The Tall Society is an organization of women who tell you to embrace that difference, not hide it.

At 5'10, I've heard it all. I get congratulated at bars for being "brave enough" to wear three inch heels, have to deal with short guys' insecurities on dates, feel guilty when standing in front of people at concerts, and feel like a Jolly Green Giant when I'm around petite woman. With the help of body positive circles, I've learned not to let those things bother me. That's what The Tall Society is: A club that dishes out empowerment and positivity to those that want to embrace their differences rather than change them.

"As the go-to platform for tall girls and women, TheTallSociety.com delivers fashion tips, discussions and access to topics of interest to the woman of stature, as well as opportunities to attend events to connect with your Tall Sisters in person, all while getting a daily dose of inspiration, empowerment and positivity," The Tall Society's press release shared.

The site has it all: They share tall girl brands that offer clothes long enough to fit your form, share funny stories unique to Amazon issues ("Yes, I Did Play Basketball,") and offer articles on how to begin the self-love journey to embracing your shape.

The Tall Society helps to further the dialog and narrative of tall women everywhere, and the site offers contributor stories that share their experiences of growing up tall, and what that entails. From commiserating to embracing, it's a space where women can share their journeys and learn to love themselves.

And now they're taking that community off of the interwebs and into real life with "Tall Sister" Brunches that are popping up all over the US.

Founder Bree Wijnaar said in her press release, "It's amazing what these brunches can do. One of our attendees said, (she) 'stood taller when she went to work on Monday.' I really enjoy that our fellowship as Tall Sisters can generate those feelings of empowerment. We have so many events coming up in the next few months across the country and Canada and I can't wait for other Tall Sisters to experience that feeling!"

If you're a tall lady in need of a tribe that understands you, below are some of their upcoming brunch dates:

• Meet Your Tall Sisters Brunch, Los Angeles, Le Méridien Delfina Santa Monica, December 18
• Meet Your Tall Sisters Brunch, Atlanta, W Atlanta – Midtown, January 29, 2017
• Meet Your Tall Sisters Brunch, Chicago, W Chicago Lakeshore, February 12
• Meet Your Tall Sisters Brunch,Toronto, Canada, The Westin Harbour Castle, February 26
• Meet Your Tall Sisters Brunch, Dallas, W Dallas Victory, March 12
• Meet Your Tall Sisters Brunch, Washington, D.C., Fig & Olive, March 26
• Meet Your Tall Sisters Brunch, Seattle, W Seattle, April 22

To register, you can go to The Tall Society. Or if you want to experience your camaraderie online first, see what The Tall Society has to offer on their website here.

Stop slouching and start embracing your height — and if you're still feeling uncertain, The Tall Society has totally got your back.

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