YOU ARE NOT SHORT.
Your pants are long. Working in alterations, I cannot tell you how many people have come in and said, “I am short, so…my clothes never fit and that’s why I’m here.” Woah! Let’s take a step back and do some reframing here. The assumption is that if my body, which is beautifully and wonderfully made, does not fit perfectly into a standardized, mass produced, impersonal piece of clothing created to fit an “average” size of a diverse population, then the only logical explanation must be that “I...