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By Grace Stearns and Maia Torres
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It took me a long time to learn how to dress for my height. For years, I believed that the best jeans for tall women were jeans that could be shoved into boots to conceal how short they were, lest one’s exposed ankles succumb to frostbite—or worse, ridicule!
At five feet eleven inches, I’ve always towered over my friends, and by my mid-twenties, I’d accepted my destiny as someone whose pants would always be just a little bit too short. Tailoring every pair I purchased felt overly aspirational (not to mention expensive). Instead, I’d resigned myself to the fact that I would never wear the wide-leg, floor-skimming trousers immortalized by the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Diane Keaton, and seemingly every style influencer on TikTok.
But even as I made peace with what I considered a cruel twist of genetic fate, I wondered why women’s sizing is so much less straightforward than men’s. The process of purchasing a pair of men’s pants seems so simple: waist, inseam, voila! A perfect fit. After years of watching the men in my life purchase jeans without even bothering to try them on, I figured it couldn’t hurt to start approaching women’s pants the way men approached theirs: by shopping—and searching—strictly by inseam.
It may not seem revolutionary, but by moving my denim search entirely online and paying closer attention to inseams before ordering, I was able to find jeans that actually fit. I quickly learned which inseams would work for me, where they would hit, what shoes they would look best with, and that pants from retailers that don’t specify an inseam will almost always be too short. After years—nay, decades!—walking around with exposed ankles, I discovered it’s possible for tall women to find a perfect pair of jeans without visiting the tailor. You just have to know what to look for. Ahead, ten pairs of the best jeans for tall women.
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