| I'm tall and thin, and yes, I did used to play | | | | Style hardly comes into it. Where are the straight |
| semi-professional basketball! Since my teens, I've | | | | cut, boot cut and (fashionably) loose fit styles? |
| been struggling to find clothes that fit me - let | | | | Not to mention stonewash, dark and light denim. |
| alone, clothes that I like that fit me. | | | | If you can find them in your local high street or |
| Tall jeans have always been a particular problem | | | | mall, please let me know. |
| I know I'm not alone. If you're tall and thin - or | | | | So where do you buy jeans for tall men? |
| have tried to buy clothing for someone who is tall | | | | A few years ago, I resorted to regular trips to |
| and thin - you'll know how difficult it is to find | | | | the US, just to buy clothes. I found places that |
| clothes that fit in normal retail outlets. Even the | | | | gave me some choice and style, but it was hardly |
| specialist stores rarely deliver the goods because | | | | convenient and had the small problem of the |
| the equate 'tall' with 'big'. So, when jeans or | | | | travel and accommodation costs, plus the stress |
| trousers are long enough, they can have folds of | | | | on my credit cards as I tried to buy all the |
| extra fabric just where you don't want it. | | | | clothes I needed for the coming months. |
| They look horrible, and so do I. | | | | Nowadays, though, there's the Internet. Although |
| Then things get even more bizarre, with some | | | | most vendors still talk 'big and tall', there are a |
| not-so-extreme inside leg measurements being | | | | small number of specialists focused on the needs |
| particularly difficult to find. If you have an inside | | | | of tall thin men and women. At last, we have |
| leg measurement between 33 and 38-inches, you | | | | some choice of properly fitting clothes without |
| may be worse off than if you're 38-inch plus. | | | | having to make a trip abroad or find a mail order |
| There's so little choice for the tall man | | | | company willing to ship to Europe - and having to |
| We're told so many times that modern retail is | | | | pay Customs charges. |
| about choice - but not if you're tall and thin. I'm | | | | At last there's some real choice - of clothes that |
| sure you've been relieved to find a shop that | | | | most people will feel really good in - without |
| stocks your size, only to find that there's the | | | | trekking halfway across the world and causing |
| choice of just one pair of jeans, and usually in the | | | | heart seizure when your credit card bill arrives! |
| most boring style conceivable. | | | | |