What a mush, this story about trying to appear taller than you are! Yeaks!
What's cooking there? Need some shrinking or what? (pun intended)
Say, come to think of it, who cares, except a basket coach? (and even there,
does it make sense from a strictly humanistic perspective to keep a single
basket height standard, instead of realistically setting up multiple
categories like in boxing? Of course not, everybody knows, as they watch on
matches from which Asians and Hispanics, smaller on average, are
unsurprisingly missing... is exclusion, prior to competition, what sports is
about?)
But at the end of the day, not beeing tall, either you're confident in your
bod, or you're not.
Either you're SMALL, or petite, which is fine since your proportions match
(isn't Killie Minogue's figure in plain sportswear a undisputed tidbit to
the male's eye ?), you look good standing barefoot
Or you're SHORT, that is, few inches missing there (generally in the limbs,
hence, the legs, blame it on heredity), in which case slightly highheeling
yourself is a logical, expected compensatory device, be you an unfortunate
low-waisted 6-footer! Still, bear in mind that footwear alone won't
convincingly counterbalance an unaesthetically proportionned figure: the
skirt/pants cut, colour, pattern and fabric are part of the picture too, not
to mention stances and movements, stage lighting and lens angle in filming.
Sometimes, being short is alternatively or additionnaly about having too
large a head size versus body size ratio (1/5 for a child or a dwarf, 1/7
for an adult) in which case shoulders broadening garment shapes or a head
width narrowing haircut can work optical wonders. But watch out, the tiniest
detail can mar everything, so, as opposed to diminutive hands buried in
long, wide, fluffy sleeves, and as such blatantly revealing a bulky head,
wearing shorter, tighter sleeves, thinner bangles and longer nails makes the
forearms from fingertips to elbows look longer, somehow blurring the dreaded
telltale sign of shortness.
Indeed, look at Britney Spears, a shorty by all accounts, and at her shrewd
camouflaging.
A further must, whether you're small or short, is to move S-L-O-W-L-Y (avoid
Speedy Gonzales' syndrome, don't have the classic "restless little thing"
jeer fit to you like a glove)
Remember: What shows on the pics, on stage, on air, is never the height,
it's the build (Paul Newman, Brad Pitt, Alain Delon, James Dean, Dolly
Parton, Natalie Wood, Liz Taylor, Madonna, Christina Aguileira, Jennifer
Lopez... only to name a few midgets, if not a good 80% of the show
business).
And don't allow anybody to turn you, human beeing, off, just because of
sacrosanct abstractions named figures. Consider for starters that at
mankind's dawn of writing, illiterate people often stood in awe before the
written word, endowing it with magical powers. On the other hand, you don't
have to buy the backward aryano-germanic myth (higher=superior), which still
recurrently biasses many allegedly free establishment minds on the
Disneyland side of Uncle Sam's (post-germanic) culture, propelling for
tallness' sake all-too-often listless spindleshanks behind multinational
corporations head offices desks.
So much for my latin good taste touch, sometimes badly needed !
BJJocelyn
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