Where have all the Tall Girl Dresses Gone?

I've been tall for the majority of my life.  It wasn't too bad when I was little but once I hit late middle school I shot up to 5'10", which is where I've been for the past 13 years or so (if you're doing the math I've been this tall since I was 14 years old).  I hated it when I was in school because my pants were always too short and I was always a head taller than everyone.  I never wore shorts to school because mom had a finger tip rule (couldn't wear shorts that came above my fingertips when when my arms were by my sides), which meant I needed shorts with about a 7" inseam and pedal pushers were't quite in style yet.  I did not own a pair of capri pants until I was about a year into college (around 2004) because I could not understand why people wanted to wear pants that were too short for them.  I'd tried my entire life to find pants that were long enough!

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I got used to it, but I still hated being so much taller than everyone else.  I tended to have taller friends which helped but there were always those situations when I'd end up looking like a giant, especially in pictures.

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In college I learned to embrace my height. Playing basketball helped because there were always people around who were my height or taller. I also learned the art of the "knee-pop" that works wonders in pictures with shorter people.

Now I absolutely  LOVE being tall and I wouldn't trade it for anything. I LOVE to wear high heels and I wear them to work every day (but no platform heels...I'm not trying to be an Amazon woman).  I tend to not wear them as much when Eric and I are out because I still have the fear of towering over him or looking the same height as him in pictures (stupid, I know).  He is 4 inches taller than me but if I have on heels and a picture is taken from a bad angle I could look taller which is NOT good. I wore flat sandals for our wedding for that very reason.  I was not taking any chances with those pictures. I feel right at home with my family.  They're almost all tall and my in-laws are pretty tall too, which helps in picture taking!

Please excuse my attire in the picture of my cousins and I.  I was a sophomore in college and played basketball and apparently thought that extra large t-shirts and sweats were hot.  YIKES!

So why am I waxing poetic about my experience with being tall?  

For this reason:

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I have some serious beef with the people who decided that super short dresses were going to be the current style.  I rode all over the city yesterday trying to find a cute dress to wear to a tailgate this weekend.  It's going to be 86 so I decided a dress was the way to go.  I bet I tried on 25 dresses yesterday and nearly every cute sundress was anywhere from 3-6 inches too short.  I realize that there are much bigger problems in the world today and that I should be very thankful that I can just run to a store to pick up a dress to wear this weekend (which I am), but is it too much to ask for another 3 inches of fabric on a dress so I don't flash the world when I lean over the food table to get a bite to eat? I know the people we're hanging out with would appreciate it!

Tall Girl Problems....grrr!