I am 6'2". I have been 6'2" since I was about sixteen, which means I have spent the better part of a decade navigating a fashion industry that was simply not built for me. Crazy right? Considering models are known for being tall. But when we consider my dimensions, regular clothes just don’t work.
Not in a dramatic, woe-is-me way. Just in a quiet, relentless, every-single-shopping-trip kind of way. The kind of way that wears you down slowly until you stop expecting clothes to fit and start being genuinely surprised when they do.
Let me paint you a picture.
You find a pair of trousers you love. The cut is perfect, the fabric is beautiful, the colour is exactly right. You try them on. They hit you mid-calf. Not in a trendy cropped way. In a this-was-designed-for-someone-eight-inches-shorter way. You put them back.
You find a shirt. A simple, white, classic button-down. You try it on and the sleeves stop somewhere near your forearms, the hem barely grazes your hips, and the proportions are so off that you barely recognise yourself in the mirror. You put it back.
What the Industry Tells You
For a long time, the fashion industry’s answer to tall women was essentially: here is a separate section at the back of the website. It will have fewer options, questionable sizing, and styles that are three seasons behind. Enjoy.
There’s the occasional “extended length” option buried so deep in the filters you need a map to find it. These exist, and I am grateful they exist, but they have never felt like the real answer. They’ve always felt like an afterthought. Like the industry acknowledging the problem without actually caring enough to solve it. And in this industry, are we really surprised?
Because the problem isn't just length. It's proportion. It's the fact that tall women don't just need longer hems — we need longer torsos, different shoulder widths, sleeves that actually reach our wrists. We need clothes that were designed for our bodies from the start, not regular clothes with a few extra centimetres tacked on at the bottom.
On Confidence
Nobody talks about the way ill-fitting clothes affect how you feel about your body. When nothing fits, you don’t think “the clothes are wrong.” You think “I am wrong.” You internalise the industry’s failure as a personal one.
It took a long time to flip that script. The clothes were failing me, not the other way around. My height is not a problem to be solved, it’s just a body, moving through a world that hasn’t caught up yet.
This is Why I’m Building AIECONCEPT
AIECONCEPT exists because of everything I just described. Because I know thousands of women have had the exact same shopping trips, the same dressing room moments, the same quiet erosion of confidence.
I want to build something that starts with tall women. Not something that accommodates us as an afterthought, but something designed for us from the very first sketch.
If you're a tall woman who has felt any of this — I'd love to hear from you. Come find me on TikTok @aieconcept 🖤