What do you consider tall for a woman?

[Roxietrees]

Just curious really…

I'm 5'9" and would say that that's the bottom end of tall. I am only very rarely in the company of a taller woman, plus standard length skirts and trousers are usually just a little bit too short.

I'd say 5ft 7 and over is tall. I'm a couple of inches shorter. The tallest women I know are my goddaughter and her mum, both around 6ft.

I’d say over 5 9” I’m 5 11” and used to be very tall and now I’m just tall and it’s easy to buy trousers everywhere. Clothes used to be cut for women a good 6” shorter twenty years ago.

I'm an average 5'4" but people often say " Oh well you're tall though" when we're talking about clothes etc . It's happened many times. My mums theory is that I'm the only slim one.
My best friend is 5'10".
I would consider anything 5'9" and above to be tall.

5' 8"

I wish I were (yours, the absolutely average 5' 5" and shrinking)

Are you slim as well.

I definitely look taller when I’m thinner

My granny and MiL were both 5’6, and I thought they were tall. Aunt is 6’, that was remarkably tall to the rest of my short family!
I was 5’4, now 5’3, and most of my friends are about the same height within an inch or two.

5’10+

im 5’7’ and i feel quite tall around other women sometimes

It all depends on your proportions re trousers. I'm 5'11" and still really struggle with trousers as I'm all leg. Non-tall trousers are also not the right proportion between waistband and crotch, IME.

I think 5'9"+ is probably tall.

I normally only get comments these days if I'm sitting down when I first meet somebody, and then stand up, unfolding my legs! Then it's, 'Oh, you're tall!'

My mum is (was!) only 4'10". I look bloody enormous next to her!

Possibly I do buy tall in jeans. I bought some nice regular length linen blend trousers in Tesco thinking they seemed long enough but I’d probably need to take them back however they fitted really well.

Thirty years ago there’s no chance any regular length trousers would of fit me. I could wear Levi’s as some styles came in a 28 / 34 and long tall sally and that was it, even a top shop tall was a bit short and people would ask whether my cats had died.

I'm 5'7 and feel on the taller side of average. 5'9 and over is definitely tall to me. Short I'd say is 5'3 and under

I’m 5ft 10 and always get told I’m tall or (I hate this) “you’re a big girl”
would say 5ft8 and above is tall

8ft 5+

5ft 8 in this country.

Agree with this.

When I lived in SE England I wasn’t tall. Comparable height to many women. Shorter than most men.

Now I live in NE Scotland I definitely am. Taller than most women and quite a few men.

Thats at 5’8.

I’d say 5’8. Anything about 5’10 is very tall.

I’d say 5’10 and over is tall. I’m 5’11. I was 5’9 by age 11 though and always very tall for my age before that so people always commented on how tall I was and it made me very self conscious. It was a nightmare finding clothes that fit as a teenager in the 90s. People don’t comment on my height as much now, I’m fatter so maybe look less tall! sometimes people who’ve known me a while suddenly say oh yes you’re tall aren’t you as if they’ve just realised. I rarely meet women taller than me, except if I travel to the Netherlands where I feel pretty average height. A lot of my friends are quite short- I know a lot more women who are under 5’6 than over but that might be an age thing (40s). I also think there may be regional differences- I feel like people are generally taller in the south where I now live than where I grew up in the north.

Yeah I'm slim. I also have long legs (but a very short body) so think my proportions deceive people!

Above 170cm

I'm 5ft 11 and feel like a bloody giant compared to every other woman I know

I'm just under 5'11" and have always been considered tall or very tall, probably because every other woman I knew was shorter! I think 5'9" plus is tall.

I'm 5'6 and have always felt on the tall side of average. Apparently 5'3 is the average height so I think that estimation was about right. So I'd say 5'8 or over is noticeably tall.

over 5ft 7 is tall

my youngest DD is 5ft 9 and she is very tall to me

I am 5ft 3

I’d say over 5’8 but it’s certainly less so these days. I grew up in an area where any woman over 5’4ish was considered tall though, in my family no woman grew over 5’2 so my 5’6 self was always a bit of a bewilderment. I’d have loved to have been taller though despite the comments!