thribble

I'm 6 feet tall (and female). For years in the UK I was restricted to Long Tall Sally, or mens jeans, until Dorothy Perkins started doing tall clothes. Now I'm in Melbourne, and went out today to try and buy a coat. I knew it would be hard, as it always is, and I'd already given up on finding trousers for work and bought skirts instead. I didn't think it'd be impossible.

A quick scour of the internet has found the Long Tall Clothing Co in Blackburn, but their webpage doesn't show any clothes of interest.

So. Are there any of you out there that are tall? And can you give me a clue where to go shopping? Otherwise it's going to be mail order from the UK for me, which somewhat takes the fun out of it all.

Teliko21

Can't help I'm afraid but wondered if you had tried in Myer? They have so many different brands of clothing in there you might get lucky.

Good luck!

Vanessa

They have a Karen Millen in the GPO building - her trousers are always too long for me and whilst I am not tall I have long legs. Friends of mine in the UK who are both 6ft also buy her trousers and don't have to take them up.

Otherwise I would try Myers and DJ's as the other person has suggested.

thribble

To be honest (and don't tell anyone) Myer's terrifies me! I got lost in there every time I tried, so now I just avoid it. I kept ending up like the episode of Father Ted where they're all trapped in the lingerie department!

Maybe I'll have another go tomorrow and take my ball of string with me.

Teliko21

Getting lost is part of the fun :P Just remember they have a Bourke St and a Lonsdale St shop which are joined to each other by walkways which adds to the confusion. I think you will find most of the clothes are in the Bourke St side so try and avoid the walkways and that halves the navigational difficulties

moneypenny20

Is this of any use:

http://www.tallwomensclothing.com/

The blurb about it says "Melbourne based specialist of clothing for tall women, designed & manufactured in Australia. Includes a list of links to other sites with tall people in mind."

sme

Also next have a long option on most of their clothes

Rudi

WOW!!! Is there a Next in Australia?!! Tell me where tell me where PLEASE!!!! I miss Next!!

Rudi

sme

I understand there's one in Perth

Bella Donna

Let me know if you find anywhere! I've started making my own stuff. I'm 5'9", but I'm still struggling because not only can I not get things long enough, but I can't get things big enough because I need to lose a bit of weight too...

Where are you thinking of ordering from in the UK? I can't find anywhere that delivers to Oz. I used to get a lot of my daughter's clothes from Verbaudet, but they don't deliver overseas, sadly. She has the same problem - she's only 8 but takes clothes in length for an 11/12 yo. She is very slim, so the right length clothes are miles too big. It's a pain getting trousers for school for her.

Good hunting!

Sue

Suni&Jay

Is there one near Bribane/Gold Coast?

poohandtigger

Hello people

was just reading the thread about clothes and you mentioned next! are they in oz!!! I know I may be really sad!!!! but I love that shop and practically live in there

Emma xxxxxxx

moneypenny20

No, thank the lord they are not!! Apparently there is one somewhere near Perth but not anywhere else (that tells me something) I hope like hell they don't come over here because I hate the shop. If you have something from there, you will probably find the same design from the same factory in Target.

NickyC

From memory, the 'Next' shop in Perth is only an outlet selling last year's cast-offs from the UK. Not an official Next shop.

And you're correct about Target selling the same stuff - other shops here also sell it too. I had a top that I bought in Myer in Sydney (cheapy Urbane label) that was identical to a Next top that my sister had bought in the UK.

We also had other matching t-shirts - I had one from Target that was identical to my sister's Dorothy Perkins version.

Makes me laugh when people go on about how wonderful Next stuff is - all that stuff about better quality, fantastic range, can get it here... etc etc. There's nothing special about it at all - it's the same Chinese mass-produced stuff that they sell all over the world. They just stick a different label on it, depending on who's paying!

thribble

I managed today - a coat from Victoria Markets, of all places. It's a bit big in places, but the arms therefore hang down long enough, and it was cheap, so I don't mind.

I haven't looked at the clothes shipping thing in detail. If they don't ship to Oz I'll get them delivered to my sister's house and she'll forward them on - she's also tall and has the same problems and is generally lovely!