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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm 5'8" and think I'm tall, but there are still plenty of women my height or taller.

I think of 5'6" as an average height. [b]You are what standard sized clothes are designed for. [/b]

If I buy regular length pants, they are an inch or two too short. If I buy the tall or long version, I have to get them hemmed. I bet the regular length fits you perfectly. [/quote]

You are making an error in logic with the bolded. A huge number of women are under 5'4" and can wear petite size clothes. But you are ignoring that entire part of the population and looking only at women who are not petite, and because OP is in the middle of that taller group, she seems "average" to you. But only because you have eliminated like a third of all women from your assessment.

People do stuff like this all the time. Like often on DCUM, people will totally ignore all people living in poverty or even working class people, in assessing whether their income or financial circumstances are average, below average, or above average. But in reality almost everyone on DCUM is above average in terms of finances because few poor or working class people frequent this website. But they exist![/quote]

PP here. Not sure I understand the error.  Women 5'4" and shorter wear petite sizes. Women above 5'8" fit best in tall or long sizes. Standard sizes seem to fit best on women 5'5" to 5'7", maybe 5'4" to 5'8". Either way, OP is right in the middle of that range - she is the perfect height for most standard sized clothes ("standard" meaning not petite or tall).

Now, I do understand that many retailers only sell petite and regular. Not everyone sells tall options. But that doesn't mean the tall women don't exist, it just means they shop elsewhere. [/quote]

You are misunderstanding the distribution. You think there are as many women over 5'8" as there are under 5'4" and that straight sizes are designed to cover the median woman.

In reality, the median woman is 5'4" and it's just that half of all women are designated as petite. Which is why stores are far more likely to carry petite sizes than tall sizes -- the market is much larger. This might be different in other countries, but in the US, where there is a broad range of ethnicities resulting in a wider spread of heights, half of women are petite and women over 5'8" are more of an outlier (this might not be true in, say, Norway).[/quote]

+1. I don’t get why this is so hard to understand. The “average” woman in the U.S. is 5’4”. It doesn’t matter what retailers classify as normal vs petite vs tall. [/quote]

DP. That doesn't really address OP's question though. There's a distribution around 5'4" which is still average. A woman who is 5'4" and a half isn't tall simply because she's above the mean, that's not how distributions work. You still have to figure out much taller than average you consider tall.[/quote]

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