Comments on: Petite models question

By: BrutallyUgly

BrutallyUgly — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:10:50 +0000

Im an aspiring model..but im just 5″2..having this unconventional height has been really disappoiinting to me..i have always wanted to be a catwalk model.. but i guess im never gonna get the chance..i think we equally deserve to be a runway model..we are worth a chance!!!

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:55:37 +0000

Hi,

i would just like to say thank you so much for giving at least the idea of short models on the runway a chance! really, just because we’re short (im 5′0) doesn’t mean we make the clothing look bad! Actually, i have pretty long legs for someone as short as me. Yet, runway shows don’t give us girls a chance. Thank you!!

- Jen

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:22:34 +0000

It is so stupid that only tall women can be really successful in modeling when it is obvious that shorter women are just as attractive. It’s not the height that matters, it’s the proportions. Kylie Minogue was voted “Best Legs”–she’s only just over 5 feet and beat out all the amazon supermodels and tall actresses like Charlize Theron and Cameron Diaz! Not to mention that Eva Longoria was voted “Best Body” many times. Long legs don’t mean crap–many long legs look like pencils and have no shape. Since it’s obvious that shorter women are just as attractive and can pull off clothes in an equally attractive, yet different, way, why not use them?

Of course they should be THIN though. Short, fat women would not flatter the product.

By: Riz

Riz — Wed, 16 May 2007 15:02:59 +0000

I am just 5 feet, and i would love to be a model. This is a huge issue. Petite people do not look crap in clothes. And thats a fact.

By: Asia Buys

Asia Buys — Fri, 11 May 2007 01:40:03 +0000

I am 5′ even and am an aspiring model. I would love to see some petite runway in the future.

Having done variety runway for local designers, I know for a fact that if the clothing is made proportionately to the model, the end product looks just as good as the clothing designed for taller women. It’s also unfair to limit the runway industry to women 5′11″ - 6′+ as most women these days aren’t that tall. For a while I kept saying how much I had wished I was taller and finally my fiance made a very good point - “it’s because of your height that gives you such a controlable center of gravity, making you more graceful to watch than most taller women.” I don’t know if he’s flatering me or not, but I have know many petite and average height girls who have the most stunning looks and graceful walks I have ever seen and were turned down for runway because they were an inch or two too short. It’s not fair.

Designers have a specific market, and the market responds to how the product is displayed. So, why not display the product more in a more flattering and appropriate way?

I vote for runway modeling to be open to all shapes and sizes, fitting to the designer’s styles. It’ll speak to the public more, not to mention give a lot of girls out there a much better image of themselves, by either seeing models like themselves and those who can strut on stage and finally get acknowledged as beautiful.

By: Nyla Poser

Nyla Poser — Sat, 05 May 2007 17:09:42 +0000

I’m all for having petite models, everywhere, but especially on the runway. I watch the fashion shows on my new HD programming and am appalled at how really unhealthy many of the runway models look. Like walking mannequins really. And someone else mentioned the “walk.” Very very few of those long thin girls have a good walk, IMHO. So many look like horses prancing. A few have the ability to put one foot in front of the other without it looking really weird, but most don’t. A couple have a leg swing that if they were skaters, Dick Button would mark them down.

AS a consumer, I find it really silly looking and a big distraction from looking at the clothes themselves.

I’m 58, 5′3″ and have a womanly figure: not petite and not obese, but can’t ever find anything on the runway that looks like I could wear it in a flattering manner.

By: mk

mk — Fri, 04 May 2007 10:31:38 +0000

I think it’s a good idea! However, I don’t see the “long, thin” models being replaced with anything else anytime soon. I mean after all that shape does let the clothes hang the best. If it was supposed to be a beauty contest on the runway, then the kind of girls that enter miss usa would be on the catwalk….but that would distract from the clothing.

By: Rowena

Rowena — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:43:03 +0000

I just been on your website…and its increadible beautiful. I like all your clothes…very ellegant…actually i am a filipina and really surprised when i found out that the founder of Tamiece are filipinas. I have problem myself buying clothes here in England because I’m 5′3 tall i have to go to Next because they have petite size or Marks
and spencer but sometimes they have very limited petite clothes. I love Fashion so much..i have seen different kinds of fashion because i have been traveling around the world…then suddenly came into my mind the thoughts about petite models on the runway…which is the reason why i found out your website.
I hope i can be one of your model someday (he he he) or help you spread your mission here in europe.

best wishes.
Rowena
from England

By: Rowena

Rowena — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:01:46 +0000

Go for petite models….you have to try something new. Fashion show is not only belong for tall models. Petite models has been critised many time..so proved them wrong. Petite models has a big space in the fashion industries…its just no body dares to trust them. there were so many ideas out there, people thought was ridicolous but became huge and successful. try to be one of them.

By: Iv

Iv — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:15:50 +0000

I would agree that using petites for a petite line would relate to your target audience. Diversity should be a part of your show as well! The fashion industry is changing.Plus size models that are runway tall are being represented. It would be fair to say that this is a positive step for women all together. Now we should embrace all diversity in fashion and get our petite plus, petite skinny on a runway–change our mindset and perception of what we should all look like. We all have to buy clothes, and who should be able to take away our right as a consumer to look good in clothes! I am actually in production of starting a community for short people(because I’m 5′1)!My intention is not to shun tall people, it’s to put petites on the map where they should already be! I started a lens on squidoo.com/Anything for shorty.I definately need work on it but-it’s ok..