Posted by:
dante (---.internal.omneuk.com)
Re: trousers; I'm 5'3ish but my legs are ridiculously short for my height. I think they're about 28", when the "standard" length is 32. I haven't ventured into marks & spencers much, but i do spend a lot of time in dorothy perkins.
Found a pair of trousers today that didn't look too long (for my purposes, "too long" = "less than three inches longer than my legs"), but when i tried them on, it turned out they were hipsters.
And you're not supposed to be "short and fat" either. "Petite" trousers only go up to about size 12, usually.
(What are these "skirt" things you speak of? They are outside my experience... at least in the last 5, oh wait a minute, 10 years...)