How tall are you?

[Giraffe]

Tall enough to move this thread to Y2C.

(6'8")

[severe delays]

Small for a Giraffe...

[SweetPea]

Originally Posted by wring

Still the shortest.

You wish If I were a law abiding citizen, I WOULD use a booster seat to drive. Instead, I use pillows. 4' 9".

(And yes, before anyone asks, that does technically qualify as dwarfism. It's physiological, though. I'm perfectly proportioned. Except for my boobs. They're kind of out of proportion on a body that otherwise looks like it belongs to a 10 year old.)

[Muskrat Love]

Originally Posted by Giraffe

Tall enough to move this thread to Y2C.

(6'8")

Did you experience any late growing? I was just 6'4" when I was 18 and I've grown 2.5 inches since.

I'm always weirded out when I'm around people who are taller than me. There's usually a moment or two where we size each other up, and then someone asks how tall the other is.

[wring]

Originally Posted by SweetPea

You wish If I were a law abiding citizen, I WOULD use a booster seat to drive. Instead, I use pillows. 4' 9".

(And yes, before anyone asks, that does technically qualify as dwarfism. It's physiological, though. I'm perfectly proportioned. Except for my boobs. They're kind of out of proportion on a body that otherwise looks like it belongs to a 10 year old.)

Phew!! I'm not the shortest anymore!!!!! Thankyew!! (I stopped growing when I was 12 years old, so I was tall for a 12 year old girl, then suddenly everyone else hit a growth spurt).

[SweetPea]

I can't even claim that. I never did have a growth spurt, just a very slow steady growth until I stopped around age 11 or 12. My parents are both average size for their gender, so the doctors all thought for sure that there was something VERY wrong with me, but they were wrong. Ok, well, there IS something very wrong with me, but it has nothing to do with my size. One of my mother's favorite stories to tell is about my first day of kindergarten. I rode the bus to school and my sister dropped me off at the kindergarten building, but the teacher didn't see her. They called the cops because they thought someone had abandoned their toddler at the school. In the teacher's defense, I weighed 18 pounds and did still wear toddler size clothes. My mother was livid.

[wring]

Originally Posted by SweetPea

I can't even claim that. I never did have a growth spurt, just a very slow steady growth until I stopped around age 11 or 12. My parents are both average size for their gender, so the doctors all thought for sure that there was something VERY wrong with me, but they were wrong. Ok, well, there IS something very wrong with me, but it has nothing to do with my size. One of my mother's favorite stories to tell is about my first day of kindergarten. I rode the bus to school and my sister dropped me off at the kindergarten building, but the teacher didn't see her. They called the cops because they thought someone had abandoned their toddler at the school. In the teacher's defense, I weighed 18 pounds and did still wear toddler size clothes. My mother was livid.

The cops stopped me 'cause they had a BOLO out on a 13 year old runaway.


I was 19 at the time.

[Metallic Squink]

I stopped growing when I was about 12 as well. And, yes, it was great fun being 6 feet tall in the sixth grade. I wasn't awkward at all. My nickname wasn't Big Bird.

[SmartAleq]

I grew seven inches when I was 12-13 and my legs hurt ALL the time. I'm 5'9", tall enough that women's pants hardly ever have long enough legs on 'em.

[HongKongFooey]

Originally Posted by Mustakrakish

I'm always weirded out when I'm around people who are taller than me. There's usually a moment or two where we size each other up, and then someone asks how tall the other is.

I was at work a few years ago with an Allen-Bradley technician who had flown in to help us with a problem. Mid-shift, I'm at my computer and he comes and sits beside me talking excitedly about the huge guy he just saw - I'm 5'8" he was 6'8". Hearing a 6'8" guy go on about the huge guy he just encountered is kind of weird. I knew right away who he was talking about though, I used to work with this guy: here he is on the set of Sherlock Holmes. He's 6'11" - 320 lbs.

[wring]

Originally Posted by SmartAleq

I grew seven inches when I was 12-13 and my legs hurt ALL the time. I'm 5'9", tall enough that women's pants hardly ever have long enough legs on 'em.

Well, I've got a pair of capri pants. That hit at my ankle.

[SmartAleq]

Originally Posted by wring

Well, I've got a pair of capri pants. That hit at my ankle.

I've tried on women's pants labelled Average for length and they'd just about make capri pants for me! Women's clothes sizes are fucked up. It doesn't help that I'm not overly tall but require a 34" inseam because most of my height is leg.

[The Futility of Nihilism]

Originally Posted by Fish

I am 14.75 hands tall at the withers.

Whither measurest thou?

[SweetPea]

Originally Posted by wring

Well, I've got a pair of capri pants. That hit at my ankle.

I don't own a pair of pants that hasn't had to be hemmed. I wear scrubs at work, and even though I order the extra small, I still had to take them up by more than 6 inches. And don't even get me started on shoes. (Size 2 in little girls.) ugh.

[Veb]

5' 10½" I've shrunk about a half inch though. And, like Smartie, most of it is in my legs. I look almost normal sitting down. It makes buying clothes a pure bitch though. It's really hard to get the length on slacks without them being way too big everywhere else. And shirts...sigh. It's rare to find a shirt that the cuffs actually cover my wrists. If the sleeves are long enough the rest looks like I'm wearing a sack.

Good thing I love classic clothes because Land's End custom hems! You haven't experienced giddy luxury until you get good wool slacks that actually cover your ankles.

Pure genetics though; my cousin's daughter is 6'1" at 15. My grandfather and uncle were both 6' 6". Family get-togethers do resemble a herd of giraffes amiably wandering around.

[takowasakun]

174cm, or so it was reported on my last physical. I usually have trouble finding clothing in the US because no clothing retailer can imagine anybody with a 27 or 28" waist would ever possibly have an inseam longer than 29". For the record, I'm more like a 32" inseam.

Thankfully, the clothing over here fits me beautifully.

[Who_me?]

6' 2" here. I find it somewhat amusing when I find someone claiming 6-3 or 6-4, where I'm obviously taller than they are. My brothers are 6' 1" and 6' 4".

[Rock]

6' 1/2"

I'm not shrinking yet

[Islander]

No, but you're leaning dangerously to starboard.

[whirlingbladesofkick]

5'4" and 2/3"

[Rock]

Originally Posted by Islander

No, but you're leaning dangerously to starboard.

Either the whole world is leaning or I'm drunker than I thought. That horizon seems somewhat askew!

[Darmund]

Originally Posted by DoyleTheLover

I'm 5'10 1/2" so I round up to 5'11"".

Same here.

[Jaade]

I'm also 5'6". I heard a statistic that the average American female is 5'3". I kinda questioned it at the time. This thread makes me question it even more.

[MissJeanLouise]

I'm not quite 5'1".

[OutStandingInTheField]

Originally Posted by Giraffe

(6'8")

But those are just US feet, right?

[Dazzling White Diamonds]

5' 7 1/2"

[Salambo]

5'7". I married a tall, burly man who used to play footballs and he makes me feel petite.

[mlerose]

Me too, Salambo, except for the footballs part

[Khampelf]

I'm 1.042 X 10^-3 miles tall!

[Dazzling White Diamonds]

My hubby is 5' 11", and is the shortest of his siblings.

[Carolia]

I'm 5' 3 1/4". My problem is that I have a normal torso and short legs. Regular pants are too long, but petite pants shorten the crotch as well as the legs, so they give me a wedgie. This is why I love capris.

[Turing Complete]

Well, wait a minute! Shouldn't we have a thread that includes height, weight, bra/penis size and IQ?

[Euryphaessa]

5'9"!

[UncleBill35]

Originally Posted by Turing Complete

Well, wait a minute! Shouldn't we have a thread that includes height, weight, bra/penis size and IQ?

250, 130, 7, and 74. You figure out which number goes with which attribute

[bufftabby]

5'2" and a smidge. I blame coffee and cigarettes.

[Radical Edward]

5'1"

[dynamitedave]

5'6" and something

[Seeker of Truth & Beauty]

I am about 23 inches tall (when laying on my back in an excited state).

[Rabid Renaissance]

5'10" and change

[Azhure]

Another 5'1" here.

[Zombies!]

About 5'8" give or take half an inch or so.

I'm kinda boggled at Giraffe being a whole foot taller than me. That's freaky.

[Pencil]

6'3" or 191 cm

I used to be really tall, certainly one of only 3 kids who were 190 cm + in my 1.500 student high school.

30 years later I'm not shrinking (though bulging somewhat at the middle), but there are tons of kids at the high school I work that are around 190. Quite a lot of girls who are 5'10 to sex feet even. Statistics bear with me, Swedish people are getting taller.

[Higgs Boson]

156 cm.

[MissJeanLouise]

Originally Posted by Pencil

Quite a lot of girls who are 5'10 to sex feet even. Statistics bear with me, Swedish people are getting taller.

Sex feet. Band name!

[freudian_slip]

6' 1/2" as well. Usually just say 6' 1", since I'm in boots a lot.

[Sleeps With Butterflies]

5'1"

[Clowns to the left of me]

5'2"

[WormTheRed]

1,86. No idea what that is in feet and inches.

[Giraffe]

Originally Posted by MissJeanLouise

I'm not quite 5'1".

Originally Posted by bufftabby

5'2" and a smidge. I blame coffee and cigarettes.

Originally Posted by Radical Edward

5'1"

Originally Posted by Azhure

Another 5'1" here.

Originally Posted by Sleeps With Butterflies

5'1"

Originally Posted by Wait...what?

5'2"

If I ever have to represent GB somewhere (probably court), I'm bringing you all with me as my posse. I think that would project the right image.

[wring]

Originally Posted by Giraffe

If I ever have to represent GB somewhere (probably court), I'm bringing you all with me as my posse. I think that would project the right image.

Hey. me, too. (I once dated a guy who was over a foot taller than me)