Too long sleeves or too short arms...

Yes please Ana! do the list! It may make me feel a BIT better [or I may have all the same things on MY list.]

With you there Galen Where I've shrunk has gone outwards .

I have a sister in law who is only 4' 10 1/2. My mother was about 5'4" and my brother the same. At 5'8" I was the giant of the family. I think I'm about 5'6-7 now. I have long arms but my legs are stupidly short. If they were in proportion I would be 6' .
My main problem is that I'm under height for my weight.

Nelliemoser My DD is quite short. I am 5'6" and she is just 5' (she would say 5'1" but I beg to differ). She finds it really difficult to get the lengths right and has to try and seek out the petite sections in those stores that have them. NEXT is pretty good as they seem to do most things in petite these days and the sleeve lenghts are adjusted to suit too.

DD takes a 42/43 shoe, and getting them here is a nightmare, she wears boots most of the time and even her French, very dapper Husband has given in to 'smart Doc Martins' for everyday wear, Dutch and German makes are best for everything else. She is 5ft 7, so not too tall but all my lot seem to have big feet, I am a 38.

I can give you a list of the things I don't like about my body if it would make you feel any better, you two!

Nelliemoser ..... well said that woman! I am just about same height as you
[and probably POGS]Oh to be 6 inches taller and a size 12! I would never moan about anything ever again well, I might I suppose.

Sorry, Nelliemoser, but my post was in response to absent's bemoaning the lack of longer jeans for her 5'9" frame - I didn't mean to imply that I felt I was lacking in height at 5'7"!

There seems to be a trend for winter jumpers to have half or 3/4 sleeves. I can't see the point, unless one's arms are short. I like my sleeves to reach well past my wrists. I alway buy a size larger than required so my derrière is obscured from public view and the spare tyres are not being gripped by the material

I do wish people would stop saying I am only 5' 5" or 5'6" or 5'7" (and more) "Only" my short arse!
Your are big! Do you hear it big! If you are "only" 5" 6" you make me sound proportionately tiny. I am all of 5' 1"! Now do you hear that! I am little! You are not "only" 5'5" or 5' 6" or 5'7"! You are "lucky" to be all of 5'5" or 5' 6" or 5'7" .... Aarghh!

Many sleeves are far too long - I go round looking at other arms to see if it's me who is abnormal. Obviously not just me. Jackets & coats cause the greatest problem unless I can find a petite version in my size. It has been easier since I went down two sizes.

I'm only 5'7" and size 10/12 in jeans, but I still have problems getting them long enough, especially as I virtually always wear a smallish heel! DD has the same problem. Some of the jeans/trousers sold as 'long' are only 31/32".

As someone whose knuckles virtually brush the pavement when I walk, I wish sleeves were longer. Also I have a mirror problem to sherish's. Many manufacturers think that if you are tall, then you must be wide. Buying trousers and jeans can be a real pain in the a… I am 5 feet 9 inches and wear size 8 jeans – definitely not a Primark customer then.

Bless 'em all, bless 'em all, the long and the short and the tall,....etc!
I am also an obese elf POGS think there may be a lot of us about, should we write en masse to the retailers? So, yes, this is prob I know very well, and 3/4 sleeves are good, but sometimes you need the warmth of full sleeves. I am finding so few places now to buy clothes that I can afford [if M&S went, what would I do?]Suspect if wealthy you could find all sorts of lovely clothing that actually fits well.

I am a size 20 and I am 5' 4". I find that tops are too long in the body.

As Elegran says becasue you're wider they think you are also taller. Not so as a rule I don't think. I am quite handy with a needle but only for trousers or skirts but for anything like t-shirts I end up taking them back. Only up to a size 14 would be the right length. Grrrr!

Hadn't thought of that, Rockgran! Will give it a go.

And also, even though I roll sleeves up carefully, they rapidly descend over my hands.

You can't win, can you? Arms too long, arms too short, ditto legs. I do jave surprisingly slim ankles and weists, and little feet. Will draw a curtain over the other bits.

Drives me mad - always having to shorten sleeves (and trousers) but I am short (and sadly wide). I try to buy 3/4 sleeves if possible. I have been known to cut knitwear and turn it back with stick on hemming. I hate the fashion for really long sleeves - I think it makes one look like Fagin.

In my youth, sleeves were always far too short and I never had shirts with buttoned cuffs because they would end up tearing the shirt along the shoulder seams. Now sleeves are far too long. I assumed it was because younger women seem to be taller than previous generations and sleeves have been lengthened as their arms are also longer.

Although I am not by any means tall, I do have quite long arms and seldom find any sleeves too long for me. I remember that washerwoman gibe from my schooldays!

My arms are too long. I like three quarter sleeves so I just push the sleeves up. We used to get told off in school for that. Told we looked as though we were washer women!

I wouldn't go putting that to the test Galen - remember that shoulder!

Me too, Galen. I do hate having a couple of inches of skinny wrist on show when the sleeves are supposed to be full-length...

I find sleeves too short. I think I must have orang a tang in my ancestry.

Another thread where I agree because as I keep saying I am an obese elf.