As the founders of ilovemyheight.com tell it, maintaining lofty self-esteem isn't the only challenge that comes with being a tall woman. As 17-year-old Jessica McCord mentions in Wednesday's Bradenton Herald, finding the right guy also can be a challenge.
Her aunt and fellow ilovemyheight.com co-founder Kristin Carde turned to the Bradenton Herald 20 years ago to find her 6-foot, 5-inch husband: Carde remembers attracting him with a classified ad in the paper.
Jessica also mentioned the challenge of finding jeans that are long enough. She and her fellow tall female relatives (6-foot, 1-inch tall aunt Kristin, 6-foot, 3-inch tall mother Debbie and 6-foot, 1-inch tall sister Anna) have some online recommendations: Long Tall Sally, the Tall Girl Shop at Loft, and (for tall teens) Alloy.
While we're speaking about the tall among us, turns out our area is the home base for Tall Clubs International, a worldwide online gathering place for 50 clubs and 2,000 tall members. Among its missions: to raise money for scholarships, to advocate for tall-relevant topics like more legroom on airplanes, and to raise money for Marfan Syndrome, a connective tissue defect that strikes tall people more often than, as Tall Clubs International calls most of us, "the less vertically gifted."
The group also selects a Miss Tall International every year. This year's honoree is 6-foot, 2-inch Talisha Tolliver, a high school math teacher from Moreno Valley, Calif.
Don't forget to see Wednesday's article about ilovemyheight.com at Bradenton.com
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