The REAL Reason Why Big Brands Won't Make Clothing for Tall Women...

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 on 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 freeomly me in review and let me know how tall you are. I'm genuinely curious. And also I have a newsletter, make sure you sign up for that. Everything is going to be linked in the description. Y'all. I did a thing. I did a thing, so I volunteer to help out with the tall Sized event that's coming up in October. Once they posted it on their story, they were like, yeah, they're looking for volunteers in New York City and I was like, Hi, I exist, I'd like to help so and I literally got back to me almost right away. So I'm kind of excited, like, Wow, I'm actually going to be helping out with the event and going to the event, like that's so cool. I just I don't know, I'm kind of excited. I really can't wait to meet some of you guys. I can't wait to meet other tall women. I can't wait to meet the founders of Tall Size. Well, I don't know if Nikola's going to be there because I know that she just had her baby, so I mean, rightfully, so she should be resting and she should be spending time with her baby. But you know, at least I'll get to meet Kayla, So that's like super exciting. So yeah, I mean, why why meet all the lovely tall women, the lovely tall girl community for one day when I can be with them for like two or three, you know what I mean. Plus, I'm also happy to support. I really want to see this company grow into something so so big. I mean it's already big now, but I'd love to see it get twenty thirty, forty times bigger. So I'm excited and grateful that I can help out and support. All Right, today's episode it was actually inspired by an event that occurred recently, So I'm I'm basically trying to update my wardrobe, upgrade my wardrobe, but like for real this time, because I know, I've been saying that for probably the entirety of this podcast the past three years, and I just never was able to keep up with it consistently. Number One, it was because I was trying to figure out how to like budget my money and actually be able to do that. But also number two, I was just very disorganized. I did like a whole clean out of my wardrobe of what I currently have. I probably should have filmed that just to show you guys, but I basically got rid of most of the stuff that I have in my wardrobe and I need to replace it. So I am trying to update upgrade my wardrobe. So I went to this place is called Loft Outlet. Here's a hack. If you want to shop like those brands that's like Ann Taylor Loft, like those very expensive or more on the pricier side brands, they have these outlet shops where they have stuff from the previous season or last year or whatever, or basically it's just like a whole season or a whole year later. They put clothes that's from that time period into those outlet shops and they sell it for a lower price, and a lot of times it's on sale. So big hack. Make sure you check out your outlet stores. But I went to Loft Outlet just to see what they had, more so tops, because I knew their pants were not going to be long enough for me walking around picking up stuff and just you know, trying to browse and explore. And then I came across a section that said petite section, and I'm like, okay, there's a petite section where the tall section at Oh, crickets, because there's nowhere to be found, Okay, Noche. I'm absolutely happy that the petigua at least can have their own section. Like that's good. We should be inclusive. But what about the tall What about the tall women? What about the tall women who want to be included in these you know pieces, where's the tall section. It's just very interesting to me because it's like, why are you gonna go and have of course, you have your standard sizes, you're gonna have a petite section. Why are we not catering? I mean, if you're catering to shorter heights, why are you not catering to taller heights? You know what I mean? It's one thing if you're just standard sizes and that's it. It's like, Oh, you're catering to no one. Okay, I get that, I guess, but you're catering to one side of the spectrum. What about the other side? You see what I'm trying to say here, So here we are, and I have a massive question. Why don't big brands make clothing for tall women? It's like, y'all have a petite section. Why don't y'all have a tall section like you have one, but you don't have the other? M make it makes sense? Am I reaching by saying what I'm I about to say? I don't know, but kind of discriminatory in a way, you know what I mean. So we're going to do a deep dive into this question today. Try to get some answers here, because I know for a fact that I'm not the only one who's frustrated by this. In fact, there's probably like a whole colony of us. In fact, let's hear from another creator what they have to say about this. Why aren't brands catering to tall women? What is the issue? I'm not the only one that's thinking this, but what is the struggle? Is it that it costs more money to make the clothes for tall women? You don't know how to make the clothes for tall women, or you may think that it's not enough of us. Trust me, there are enough of us out there. You have a whole WNBA basketball team, they're tall, So why aren't brands caterance? I hope this message reaches some of them, and maybe they want to ask us tall women what is it that they can do to make our shopping experiences better? And you know, the issue with inclusivity has been a big thing for the past few years. I mean this was especially highlighted with plus size clothing, which is definitely understandable because you know, there are brands, a lot of brands that you know, even to this day in twenty twenty four, to this day, what day am I recording this. I don't even have a calendar. Oh my gosh, September twenty second, twenty twenty four. There are still brands out there that only go up to a size XL or a double XL max. And even finding something in a double XL can be difficult. And I'm telling you many people have been fighting, fighting, fighting for so hard for it to go past double XL, triple XL, QUADRUPLEXL. All of that stuff. And you know, I've been seeing tiktoks circulating, especially when I was doing research for this episode. In particular, I've been seeing tiktoks that say that if people notice that these brands are catering to the folks who need plus size clothing, then those people, like the standardized people. I guess you could say the standard sized people will think that the brand is cool anymore because they don't want to be associated with a brand, either associated with a brand that makes plus size clothing or associated with people who wear plus size clothing. I don't want to get it wrong, so I'm just gonna include the clip that I've found that said that, and that is gonna explain it much better than I could. A lot of brands don't want to expand faster five final because there's straight size. Customers feel alienated and no longer feel like the brand is cool because now it is associated with larger bodies. So this is Griselle, the owner of reb Dolls. If you are unfamiliar, go check them out. They carry straight sizes and plus sizes I believe up to a size six X, and they have a lot of styles that you probably have not seen available in plus sizes before, which is why I love them. I have worked with them before, I have purchased things on my own, go do all the things. And she has also imposts a lot of really good content. But for all you people who think that you know, plus sizes just don't sell or it costs too much to add all that firebreker, whatever excuses you have been giving us, this is the reason. So anyway, she is looking for investors to expand her brand, and she met with a brand and this is the reasoning that they gave her. Brands don't want to expand because straight sized people don't want to wear the same clothing as plus sized people because once that happens, it's not cool anymore for fat people though, on the same clothing. So I'm like, is that potentially the case here to big brands not cater to tall women, because if other people see that they're catering to tall women, then it's just gonna be like, oh, this brand isn't cool anymore. I don't want to be associated with these tall freaks or whatever. Like is that the case? I mean, I don't know. Maybe I'm also reaching with that assumption as well, but I mean, if they consider it to be the case with plus size people. Is that potentially what's going on with don't I don't know, but we've heard many excuses as to why these brands don't make tall clothing sizes, too much money, extra fabric to niche of a market, logistical challenges, among other things. The reality is they think that we're not a big enough, important enough, or profitable enough group to cater to. And there are many articles on this, but I'm pretty sure we all know. Like, let's just say that about one percent of the American woman population is six feet up to them. When they see that one percent, they're like, oh, that's irrelevant because it's literally just one percent, Like that's such a small number. Why are we going to try to cater to one percent when most of the other country is shorter than that. When in reality, when you look at that one percent, that's still over a million women. There's still over a million women that want to buy clothes that look nice and also fit them and fit their length. And then on top of that, I feel like something that they don't really think too much about is that, yes, people can be average height or you know, just like not seen as super tall, but they can be like a little bit above average and still have long limbs. Like there are women out there who still are like five seven five eight five six even that have longer legs than the people who are around the same hind as them. They can still have longer legs, they can still have longer arms, they can still have longer torsos. Just because they are not at the six foot up range or the five ten five nine in up range, or whatever you want to call it, that doesn't necessarily mean that they don't have longer limbs that they still need to find clothes for. At this point, I just think that they should just admit that it is hard for them. It may be a challenge for them, and they just don't think that we're an important enough group to take on that challenge for. That makes sense because they see that one percent and they're like, hm, eh, we don't need to we don't need to do anything for these people. There's just one percent. They're gonna be fine. So they're just rolling with the one size fits all mentality and it's annoying, like it singles us out and it reinforces the idea that women should fit into the same mold and that is just getting tired at this point. And listen, by all means, I'm not someone who has a clothing brand, Like I don't know the struggles of starting a clothing brand and doing with fabrics and manufacturers and all that stuff. So I'm also gonna say that, yes, like I don't understand the challenges, so I don't know how hard it is gonna be to be able to cater to all of that. But if you're a big brand, I'm sure you have the money to invest something something, you know, in getting extra fabric or getting that extra length, you know what I mean. It's one thing. If it's a smaller clothing brand, I get it. But you guys are like multi million dollar companies like you, I'm assuming that's what I'm assuming that you guys are making a bunch of profit and you're able to reinvest in something that can cater to many different body types. And listen, there are some brands that are actually trying to cater to the taller target market as well as they're trying to cater to the shorter target market. And I definitely give them that. I mean, you have American ego, you have old Navy, you have gap, Like some of y'all are actually coming along, and the brands that I just mentioned are Chef's kiss, like they know what they're doing with their long and extra long sizes or tall sizes. But some of y'all are fake trying. Okay, I actually stumbled across a video, a TikTok video of this girl. She was trying on pants that was labeled as tall, and she was five nine. She stumbled upon pants that was labeled as tall, and in reality, the genes were not tall. I'm gonna roll the video. If you're watching the video version, I'm gonna roll this clips so you can visually see it and it will make sense. And so the fashion brands that think that they're making tall genes for the tall girlies, this is not what I mean. But for people who are watching the audio version, Essentially, in the video, the jeans were barely reaching her ankles and they weren't fitting the way that they were supposed to because she had to adjust it a certain way in order for it to actually just barely reach her ankles. So essentially, when they say tall, the end seam in reality isn't really long enough. And in my personal opinion, fake trying is honestly worse than not trying at all. Like, if you're saying that something is tall, actually make it tall thirty inchin seam isn't tall thirty two inch, and seam isn't tall thirty three inch, and seam isn't tall thirty four inch, and seam is getting there but still isn't tall. I need me at least a thirty six engine seam. At least. Big brands are doing slightly better with the tall inclusivity than they were several years ago, but they're not moving at a fast enough pace. We need tall clothing like yesterday. And that's why I'm so grateful that there are small tall businesses out there that are making it happen for us. So, you know what, let's put each other on what small tall clothing brands are we shopping from. In twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five. We need to make it more widely known that there are brands out there that cater to US tall women and only US tall women. We got Tall Size that features quite a few brands like Elevated Closet and Prissy Duck. We got American Tall Long Tall Sally Amali Tally. I hope I'm saying that correctly. These amazing brands deserve so much more exposure because they're doing so much good for the tall community. Let's hear from one of these brands. Tall women have been traumatized by the shopping experience forever. My name is Jordan, I'm six foot four and I'm the owner of the Elevated Closet, and it is a clothing brands specifically for tall women, and we are one of the very few options that tall women have. And tall can be very subjective. It could be five eight all the way to six eight or taller. It is very difficult and it's hard for some people to understand quite the limited options that we have. So like, I think I know of twenty to thirty tall brands, and that doesn't include the mainstream stores that try to say that they have tall options by like adding an inch or two to the bottom of things and saying that they have tall This is like brands like specifically making clothes for tall women. There's one percent of women in the US that are over six feet tall, and it's like point point oh one percent of that are six two and taller. But that's still a lot of women who don't have clothing to fit them properly. So small brands like me are popping up to take care of it, to make care of the problem. So the whole point of this episode is really just to bring awareness to the fact that big brands could be doing better. I'm pretty sure they have the budget for it. They're just they just don't really see us as a group that's important enough to cater to. That's just personally what I think, because I mean, think about it. You're making products that cater to shorter limbs. Why not just make products that if you only want to go for one particular size, why not make products that are extra long, that are longer cater to the tall sizes, But the shorter girlies can also buy it and just have it tailored themselves. They can have it hemmed, they can have the extra fabric cut off. Doesn't that make more sense because then you're able to cater to the taller sizes, the ones with the longer limbs, the longer arms, the longer torsos, the longer legs. But then you still have products that shorter women can wear because they can have it tailored and hemmed. To be fair, most people need to have their clothing tailored in him anyways. So like in the example that I use with the one percent, they're like, that's too small of a group. That's not important. We have bigger fish to fry, we have more important target markets to cater to, and I don't know, it just feels bad. It makes us feel bad. It's like, dang, we're really not that important to you guys. Just and you know, I spoke about this a little bit and with one of my guests in the previous episode. Her name is Toy. She's six foot of bay on Instagram. Shot out to you if you're listening to this, and you know, she's hit it right on the nail that these big brands are just not moving at the pace that we need them to, and that's why we should definitely support small, tall businesses. So the point of this episode is to just really bring awareness to this and just to speak about it. You know, I think that a major way to fix an issue is to bring awareness to it and speak about it. And the more we talk about it, the more likely it is that you know, there's going to be a solution at some point down the road, hopefully sooner rather than later, but I guess we'll see. So anyways, thank you for tuning into this episode. I really appreciate it, and I appreciate you as always. Feel free to hit me up on my socials. That a Tall Girls podcast, and we could talk about this, we can complain about this, like, what are your thoughts, like, do you think that there are other reasons as to why clothing brands just don't make clothing for tall women? They don't make tall clothing sizes? Do you think there are other reasons behind it? Have you heard anything else? Are there also any other brands that actually like bigger brands that are now catering to tall sizes that I didn't mention, Like, let's chat about this, Let's talk about this. My dms are open, so make sure you hit me up all my socials and everything is going to be in the description and until then I'll catch you in the next one. Good night and goodbye,