Clothing, fashion and style for petite women 5’3″ and under.
Pockets! They’re the rallying cry by women everywhere. An equality issue if there ever was one. For decades now, men’s clothing sported useful, spacious and functional pockets, enabling them to carry all their stuff with them, while we women have had to make do with handbags and purses because our clothes lacked this feature or… Read More The quest for pockets that function and flatter
My friend Heather sent me a link to this t-shirt last weekend. I think she was trying to tell me that I’m concentrated awesome. Which, hey, everyone knows is true, after all! But, the minute I clicked on the link, I spotted the issue. Can you see it? That’s right: A t-shirt marketed to short… Read More Concentrated fail
I talked about my Canadian Black Friday purchases in Part 1 of this post. Now in Part 2, I’ll give a rundown of what I bought south of the border. For Canadian petites, for whom cross-border shopping is often a matter of necessity, not luxury, it can be the only time of year when prices… Read More In with the new: Black Friday 2017 Part 2
It’s that most wonderful time of the year: Holiday party time! As our calendars fill up with office parties, family parties, and New Year’s blowouts, I thought it was timely to do a post about petite-friendly holiday dress shopping. It can be tricky to find just the right holiday dress. You have to consider the… Read More Holiday dresses for petites
Here in Canada, Black Friday never used to be a thing. But it is now. We’ve gotten into the habit of demanding deals from our local retailers to rival those found south of the border at this time of year, to the point where “vendredi fou” (as it’s been dubbed here in Quebec) is actually… Read More In with the new: Black Friday 2017 Part 1
With Black Friday sales in full swing, it’s that time of year when I actually venture online and shop the sales to purchase some new clothes. It was time to make way for the new by cleaning out some of the old. Yep, this weekend I did the dreaded closet clean. I’m not a pack… Read More Out with the old: Closet cleaning tips for petites
Ahhh, wrap dresses. Seemingly the best friend of every fashion blogger or advice columnist, and simultaneously the worst enemy of every woman who’s tried to put them into practice. Since the wrap dress was invented by designer Diane von Furstenberg in the 1970s, the wrap dress has inspired a love-it-or-hate-it controversy. More than four decades… Read More The faux-wrap dress
A narrow dilemma So, here’s the thing about my feet: They’re narrow. Very, very narrow. Like, not even on the charts narrow. Or, more specifically, I measure out at an AA on the ball of my foot, and a AAAA on my heel. Yeah, I didn’t even know that feet came that narrow. But they… Read More Wearing heels with narrow feet: My secret weapon
The boyfriend jean is one of those fashion trends that I thought I’d forever have to admire from afar. On longer-legged, taller women, these unstructured cropped jeans always seemed to look chic. But whenever I’d try to replicate the look on my petite pear-shaped frame, I’d just get swallowed up by the baggy fabric, and… Read More The ex-boyfriend jean
Marie Schrader, Skyler White’s sister on Breaking Bad, played by Betsy Brandt, was known for wearing purple. A lot. It started off subtle, but as the series progressed, so did the amount of purple in Marie’s wardrobe. Fans even created conspiracy blogs about how much purple she wore. So the other day, I was rummaging… Read More Marie Schrader syndrome: How purple took over my wardrobe