to wonder if a 5’7 female is ‘big’

• I always think.

Depends your age and nationality. I’m 5 ft 3 and most of my friends are in the same kind of range in mid 40s. 5ft7.5 would stand out as tall

young women seem a lot taller these days so imagine 5ft 7 would be average.

I'm 5'7", I s as leats think I'm the tall end of the average bracket. I'd love to be taller, most of my friends are taller than me. My DD17 towers over me I'd never see some of 5'7" bad think they were tall.

Given that I’m 5”11 I’d hope not otherwise I’d be the BFG

You’re taller than average but not significantly so!

Not tall, average I'd say. I would class 5ft 10 and above as tall, maybe 5ft 9 at a push.

Just slightly above average.

I think it’s above average height but not excessively so. And at 9stone you’re not a giant.
One of my daughters is 6 ‘ she gets the tall gene from her dads side, they are all tall, my DH is 6’2”: my mother in law and three of her sisters were all
5’10.

I'm nearly 5' 11".

When I went to Dubrovnik, I felt like a short arse.

I’m 5’7 and used to think I was small (only because my sisters are all 5’10 and up and my brothers are 6’2 and over. Even my niece is over 6ft) and then I moved to where I live now and I tower over everyone. All my friends here are between 5ft and 5’4.

I’m almost exactly the same as you in both height and weight (well, not at the moment as I’m 9 months pregnant but usually).

I feel a bit taller than average but not weirdly so and I’m a size 8-10 so I don’t feel “big”. I feel like if I was picking my height I’d be a bit shorter but I wouldn’t want to be less than 5’5.

I think it depends who you spend time with and where you are - some areas of the country have a shorter average height and others taller. I don’t feel much taller than most of the women around me and am shorter than pretty much all the men I know so I think I’m fine. I don’t wear very high heels - but then I’ve never been able to walk in them anyway!

Again, where are all you tall people😂
There should be way more visible on a street at 6 foot. That's taller than half the lads around here

Not that tall, but I'd say on the taller side. 'Reasonably tall' probably. I'm 5'9" and would say I am quite tall.

If it really is now 5’ 4.7, then the standard deviation that I found elsewhere is 2.2, so you're just over one standard deviation from the mean. Meaning thar around 85% of women are shorter than you. But also 15% are taller. So yes, you are talish, but not remarkably so. I'm just under 5'7'' and often taller than other women, but not so that I notice it much. It helps of course that I'm not that tall for a human once you combine the sexes.

Can’t se a source..

I am 6'2" and have been since I was 14. That was very tall back in 1980. Not so much now. My 12 year old DD is already 5'7".

These days your height is much more normal.

Stand tall and be proud of your height.

Are those stats of 5 ft 3.5 out of date now

It says 5’ 4.7” here…

www.onaverage.co.uk/body-averages/average-female-height

I can see a source for their data though.

I'm above average height but would have liked to have been 5ft 7 which I just fell short of. My sister is 5ft 10 so I was always called short.

Does anyone know? Are those stats of 5 ft 3.5 out of date now? They're from 10 years ago, the wiki stats.

I know it's only half an inch but I thought it was around 5ft 4 now. I think ONS might be the source for that.

I was going to ask which half of you is female but someone beat me to it.
The national average height for a woman is 5'3,5" so you are taller than average but not tall.

I’m 5ft 7, my wife is 5ft 8, her mum is 5ft 10 and my best friend is 5ft 7, so I don’t feel like it’s massively tall, but I have noticed often at work I’m the tallest woman in the room. A lot of my friends are 5ft 3 and 4, so on a night out when I’m wearing heels I sometimes also feel massive as I’m taller than most men. I would say I would consider 5ft 10 and above tall for a woman, 5ft 7 is taller than average, but not unusually tall imo.

Sorry just seen it was dwarfed by, not towered over.

To be fair the op I was replying to said she was often towered over by other women which I think is probably a bit of an exaggeration.

Im only 5’2’’ on a good day, so used to being one of the shortest but still, in my school of approx 70 staff (majority women) only a handful are approaching 6ft.

As the average height for a man is only 5’9’’ then I do consider 5’7’’ to be tallish.

But I do agree people are getting taller, I’m often lost walking down the corridor at lunch time and I work in a primary school!

My 17 year old daughter is shorter than me though and my husband is 6ft so not tall but also not particularly short.

My DD (21) is 5'10" and does get called tall. My other DD (18) is 5'3" and gets called "tiny". You can't win. I think average height in uk is 5'4" which I am - or was, I'm shrinking.

I'm 5'2" and have female friends ranging from 5' to 6' but I'd say most are between 5'5" and 5'7". Although they seem tall to me I don't consider that they are tall in general. I'm the shortest in my friendship group and my work etc... so I always assumed I was in the minority. Didn't realise until this thread that the average height is 5'3!

If I could pick my height I'd choose to be 5'7.