What It's Like Going To New York Fashion Week As A Short Person
All your insecurities are heightened.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Especially when they are everywhere.
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*every heightened insecurity projecting onto them*
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Then you wait in line to enter the show. Which looks like:
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And:
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And:
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I think the exact thoughts, at this exact moment, was r u kidding me.
And when you finally get into the actual show, your view, of course, looks like:
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You maneuver...
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...and master...
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...the art of watching the show in the open space between the shoulders of people in front of you.
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Because, to a short person, you'll spend most of your time looking at the tops of runway models' heads...
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...and the rest at the back of everyone else's heads.
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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.
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