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Thursday, February 26, 2009
News Men's clothing: Is there a Big & Tall for the short and small?
Posted By Kimberly Lawson on Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:20 AM
For the Michael Jordans in the world, you can always buy clothes at Casual Male or Big & Tall — clothing stores that specialize in dressing, well, big and tall men. But what about small and short men? How can men of shorter stature buy clothes and get them altered without looking like they're wearing their dad's clothes?
Simply shortening a suit's hems and sleeves can leave the collar too broad, the pockets oversized, the armholes gargantuan, the elbow curves too low and the rear droopy.
All this can make a small man look even smaller. "Taller men can get away with having things look a little baggy," says Mr. Lefkowitz. But the wrong fit "can make us look schlumpy."
In today's Wall Street Journal's On Style column, writer Christina Binkley tackles that very subject by interviewing 5-foot-2 designer Jimmy Au, whose Beverly Hills store sells clothing cut to fit shorter men.
There should be more of these stores, considering one out of three men in the United States is under 5 feet 8 inches tall, don't you agree?
Height, for a man, is the ultimate power marker. An added inch of height is equivalent to an extra $30,000 year of salary, on average, when it comes to attracting a mate, says Andrew Trees, author of "Decoding Love," a book about the science of attraction. Height also affects earnings -- though less dramatically: Each inch earns you about $600 more per year in salary after controlling for variables like education, he says.
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