I Hate Online Shopping (A Tall Girl's Rant)

Good morning everybody. You are currently listening to a Tall Girls podcast hosted by a tall girl named India. I hope everyone who's tuning in today is doing super fantastic. Before I get into this episode, I do want to say make sure you're following me out my socials at a Tall Girls podcast on Instagram, TikTok, and Pinterest, so that you can stay up to date on all of the latest podcast episodes and catch a glimpse of my everyday life. Also, feel free to leave me your review and let me know how tall you are. I'm genuinely curious. Everything is going to be linked to the description. It's officially March, guys, Happy March. By the way, it's going to be spring in the next couple of days too, and like the middle of the month that's the first day of spring. Super excited for that, not just the warmer weather and the sun and the longer days, but my birthday also happens to be next month. My birthday is in April. Yes, I'm in April, baby, specifically April eighth. Yeah, I'm in aries whatever that means to you. And it's funny kind of just saying that out loud because I'll tell someone, yeah, I was born in April eighth, and they'll be like like, oh, you're an aries, And I'm like, what exactly is that supposed to mean? Like what is that supposed to do for either one of us? Are you gonna psychoanalyze my childhood based on my horoscope? Like what's what's the deal with that? And then sometimes they'll follow up with the that makes so much sense. Bro. What some people say, especially my sister, that I act like in aries, and I'm like, I don't think all arises aries is all aries. People act exactly the same. We just have different personalities and mine just I guess happens to be close to the one that's on the internet. I don't know. I mean, no ten o shade to the horoscope people out there. Like I'm not trying to disrespect or bash or anything, but it's just not like my cup of tea. I just I just don't follow with it, that's all. But I'm not gonna lie. Y'all kind of scare me just a little bit though. But anyways, I've been planning, planning, planning. I've been planning nice and early. I've actually been planning since February. I've been planning since the end of February what I want to do because I'm the type of person that wants to celebrate their birthday over a couple days. Some people do the whole month, some people do the whole week. I just prefer to do over the weekend because I'm still in school and right because my birthday is dead smack on a Monday, and I have my early class on Mondays. So I'm just trying to start from Friday Friday to Monday. I can't do the whole week because I have projects, due presentations, all that stuff. It's just it's a lot. So I just want to do it over a weekend, over a span of four days. So I've been trying to plan out what I want to do nice and early. Some people are like, well, are you planning so early? Bro? I waited two weeks before my birthday. Last year, I waited till two weeks before my birthday, and it was honestly a mess. Okay, it wasn't really that much of a mess. I feel like last year was iconic. If you were there for that episode, you would know that it was iconic. Okay, I'm talking like throwing bowling balls, running over children at mini golf. Like the vibe was there. It was just kind of stressful planning all of that two weeks beforehand, and it wasn't even everything that I wanted to do. So I think that this year it's just better to plan earlier. Plus I'm a chronic planner anyways, I like planning things, so this is just right up my alley. So I just prefer to plan early. And then I've also been trying to figure out what to wear. I'm not gonna lie to y'all. I'm not really the type of person who puts a lot of thought or a lot of effort into figuring out what they're gonna wear. I just try to be stick to the basics, honestly. That's that's what helps me a lot, because I mean, I'm a working college that I work every day. I work seven days a week, yes, seven days a week, Sunday through Sunday, just doing my freelance stuff and doing this podcast. And then on top of that, I'm a full time student. So that's a full time job on top of a bunch of part time jobs. And I'm just trying to figure out my health and maintain my mental health and stay active and this and that and the other. Trying to figure out what I'm gonna wear in the day is really in the back of my mind. It's one of the last things that I really want to think about. It just requires a lot of thought capacity that I just don't have to give to it. But I was inspired by this post on Instagram, specifically from one of the tall ladies that I follow, Rachel, about just trying to feel like, just trying to get ready, if that makes sense, So actually putting effort into your hair, into her makeup, into her clothes. And I was like, you know what, it doesn't hurt to do that every once in a while, not necessarily every single day, because like I said before, I have a very busy lifestyle and I just want to be as comfortable as possible, and I just don't want to think way too much to the point where I'm overwhelmed or I have decision fatigue. But you know, every once in a while it doesn't hurt. So I've been trying to figure out what to wear for the four days, and that's probably the four days of the entire year. Now I'm gonna look nice Okay, not the entire year, I'm exaggerating, but in a while. So I'm like, you know what, might as well try And like I said before, busy schedule, I can't always go in person to stores, to malls, stuff like that, so that means I would be doing a lot of online shopping and see online shopping. There's a few things that I really want to get off my chest today about online shopping. I think I actually forgot how bad it is. I think because I'm gonna be twenty too soon, I think, but I used to think that by the age of twenty two, you know, I'm done growing. I hope I'm done developing kind of Anyways, Bodies changed all the time, but I don't think it's gonna be as drastic as it was when I was younger. So for the most part, I know my measurements, I know my sizes, I know my endeins, I know this, that and the other. I would think that being able to get like the stuff online or the stuff online would be just a little bit better. No, I forgot how bad it was. Like, yes, there are tall options out there, but I'm okay, I'm tall, but I'm a different breed of tall, Like I'm too tall for the average clothes, but for the most part, I'm not tall enough for the tall options. Maybe it's just something that the tall woman who's happened to start with a five understand. It's just that awkward like in between height like the five nine, five ten, five eleven. I happen to be five ten and a half and low key, what does being five ten and a half make me on the tall girl height spectrum? Like am I a short tall girl or am I an average tall girl? Well, that average tall girl is probably six feet to six three, so that makes me a short tall girl. Is there a chart for this? But being in that five nine to five eleven area, I don't know. I just feel like it makes online shopping just shopping in general, a hit or a miss, and probably eighty five percent of the time a miss. Like just as an example, I ordered this one body suit online and you know, I have a pretty average sized torso, so I didn't think that there would be too many problems with it. Maybe the only problem would be that my arms aren't long enough. But I mean, what's new, Like I've dealt with that before, and I just roll up the sleeves and that's that. It's fine whatever, But when I got it, it was just so disappointing. My long arms just presented a very different and weird problem. I think also partially because of the material. The material in combination with my long arms, it just presented a very different problem. There were just some really weird arm pit gaps going on. The thing is, if you're tall and online shopping, you can't just worry about whether the pants or the arm sleeves are long enough to think about the interesting armpit gaps, the exaggerated hip areas, and don't even get me started on an awkward crotch links. Like I genuinely think that some brands don't understand what an end seam actually is, Like the end seam is right below your crotch area, down to your feet or your ankles or something like that. I think that some brands include the crotch length in the end seam, like it will say, yeah, thirty eight inches, and the crash length will be a third of that. Bro And another thing about online chopping is that it will turn you into a mathematician. You're basically calculating how well the piece of clothing will fit on you based on how it fits the model and how tall that model is. And let me tell you the amount of miscalculations that I've had. I'm embarrassed to call myself a business major, Like I'm supposed to be good at mass but when I do these calculations on these clothes and then I receive it, they don't fit. Like what's going on here? It's not even my fault, because brands will either lie or they're completely confused about what's considered tall. Like you're not telling me your pair of pants is tall, and you're pulling up with a thirty three inch incheam max. If it's not at least thirty six inches, don't even talk to me. I don't know. I just feel like it makes the whole entire process very long, very grueling, and very frustrating. The scariest thing for a tall woman is to order something online, pay like over one hundred dollars for it, wait two weeks for it to arrive, try it on, and if it's horribly like You've been so excited for the past two weeks and then your hopes and dreams are basically shattered. That's essentially what happened to me several times over the past couple of weeks. And now I'm trying to do this thing where I do like an online order, like order it online and then pick it up in store. So if they have that, so if it's like an online shop or just a shop that has a a brick and mortar somewhere near me or somewhere in the city, I'm more likely to try to just order it from that place and then just pick it up in store, so that when I go to pick it up, I could just try it on right then and there in the place in the fitting rooms, and then if it doesn't fit, I could just go to the cash register and just exchange it for a different size or return it instead of the process of just getting it out of my house and then having to like do a return and then ship it back and that's just like an ongoing cycle and it's a lot. I just want things done like at the split, if you know what I mean. And this week I also learned that I should really just try to stick to the brands and I know will work for me if I'm going to do online shopping, because for the most part, I will only be disappointed in the long run, it's just because there isn't that option to try it on in store, so having to wait three to four days or even two weeks to get it in the mail, and then having to when it doesn't fit, or if it doesn't fit, to return it and wait like another three to five business days to get your refund. And some online brands also take out the shipping fee money so you can even get a full refund. It's just it's tiring at times. It's tiring, is very, very tiring. So to be fair, I think if I'm doing online shopping, it's just best for me to stray away from new brands. Well not all new brands. Let me tell you, guys, let me put you on right now. I'm not even putting you on. You guys were the one who put me onto this. But American Eagle they know what they're doing for their genes. They have long and extra long options. The long options are thirty six inches for the end seam and the extra long is thirty eight inches. I believe, so I ordered the long option thirty six inches seam and they fit perfectly. Oh my gosh, if you're tall, I highly highly highly recommend American Eagle. So not all new brands are bad. Some are coming along well. We still have a long ways to go, but I think there, I think they're they're coming along well. And that was just me ranting about my online ordering, online shopping, mayhem, dismay, I don't even know the correct word, my frustration over the past couple of weeks, that's all. But things are coming along kind of. I'm just I'm just gonna keep on trying. You never give up, you know, as Demi Levada once said, we can't back down, not right now. Only the true O. G. Disney fans will know. Anyways, thank you for listening to my rant. I really appreciate it, and I appreciate you as always. Feel free to hit me out by my socials at a Tall Girls podcast and let me know, like, let's talk about our frustrations with online shopping. I just kind of want to feel like I'm not the only one who's complaining about this. To be fair, I don't want to feel alone in this frustration of online shopping as a tall woman. So if you could just make me feel a little bit better, we could talk about it together. Please do that, or we could just chat about life up to you. I'm down as long as it's within reason, of course. And yeah, if you are struggling with online shopping as a tall person or just shopping in general, just know that you're not alone. We're all in the same boat. But keep trying because I have faith that you'll be able to find what works for you and I'll catch you in the next one. Good Night and goodbye.