Okay. So picture the scene in Alice in Wonderland when she drinks the potion and it makes her small then eats the cake and grows too fast. Any cartoon really. One leg explodes in size before the rest of the characters body blasts to the proportionate size. I feel like if you took a screenshot while that was happening and made it into a living breathing human being you would get me.
Fortunately body positivity became celebrated. People get to be okay with the skin suit THEY were gifted. This great news. I however fall between the cracks of what became newly honored. Petite? Nope. I am 5’11” and almost completely legs. Plus size? Yeah I’m not that either. I have curves but not really the body build for traditional curves.
Sidebar- I also have almost no concept of what I look like. Owning a body is scary for me. Its cool to see other people rock it with suave though.
Curves. Yeah I have hip dips and have to wear high wasted pants to avoid breezy drafts across my hiney. My thighs are built like Usain Bolts but with also with a layer of woman cushion keeping them warm. This shape isn’t traditional for curvy fit.
Insult to injury *I can’t think of a healthy way to reframe that statement* I am tall.
Nononoo. No. Not large. Tall. Like the opposite of petite. A size only beginning to be recognized by some clothing companies.
Everyone in the history of ever and even before that asks ‘but you can just buy a larger size?’ Buying a larger size doesn’t make it longer. It makes it wider. I am not wider. Do I need to say this again? It does not make it longer and this makes me want to flip a table. But really passively because I have heard it so many times. I can flip the table standing up because my knees bump it because I am Tall and not busty. When you are busty you don’t demolish things with exaggerated angles. You cushion stuff because boobs are cozy and get to have larger sizes to fit them.
So to sum it all up I am built like Xena with a little dough caked onto my stronger spots.
Why is it important I write this? Because they are relatively easy fixes and I shouldn’t have to bespoke my whole life to feel proud of my body.
I want alternatives to making things fit and as I am not the only human with a body I imagine other people need help too.
I want to begin by focusing on five distinct things to anyone who has similar features to me and I would be elated to go from there for the other people in our lives with bodies and frustration because of this.
- Pants. WTF. Tall and curvy are not mutually exclusive.
- I don’t want to hear anymore jokes about short people sewing the extra fabric from their jeans onto mine. I already feel frumpy.
- Being on the ginger/blonde barrier.
- Sleeves please! My wrists are cold.
- Womens shoes. The shape of them becomes more alien the bigger the size gets. I don’t want to feel like an alien anymore or I could be okay with being a less awkward alien.
HELP.
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