It's New York Fashion Week, which means beautiful models are often standing around as installation art and/or co-mingling in the crowds like graceful gazelles.
I decided to attend in my best costume: as a short person!
This is me. A 5'2 commoner standing at the Lincoln Center plaza in NYC, site of NYFW.
*If you're a short person, you know that every inch, and quarter-inch, counts.
Walking into the event, there stood three statuesque models posing for a nearby photographer.
And me.
Now, I'm fairly comfortable at my height, but when standing amid a sea of tall people, you can not help but feel like an adult child.
Especially when they are everywhere.
*every heightened insecurity projecting onto them*
Then you wait in line to enter the show. Which looks like:
And:
And:
And when you finally get into the actual show, your view, of course, looks like:
You maneuver...
...and master...
...the art of watching the show in the open space between the shoulders of people in front of you.
Because, to a short person, you'll spend most of your time looking at the tops of runway models' heads...
...and the rest at the back of everyone else's heads.
But that's the reality of a short person in fashion.
***PLOT TWIST*** As I left NYFW — in an arena of tall, poised, pretty people — a photographer stopped and asked me for a photo.
