A DIY Tall Shorts Suit

We steer clear of showing you a ton of non-tall clothing. There are still mainline places we tend to shop at, and Express is one of them. I (Jenilee) used to work there as I was finishing college, and have had good luck with the length of their tops, shorts, midi dresses, and some of their jeans/work pants. Both Caitlin and I would agree, they do a lot of ankle length pants in long length and those will probably only work on small talls like 5’10 to 6’1 depending where you carry your height. Caitlin has worn many of their work pant options in the past and I even have one pair I sized up in. So all of that to say, head into one of their stores if you’re in an area that has one and try a couple of things on. 

Today, I’m wearing these “bermuda” shorts (click here and also select sizes available in polka dot here), and think they are awesome for tall women. I put bermuda in quotes, because they are obviously nowhere near the length of what we’d all consider bermuda. That would be much closer to knee length. I took one look at the description and chuckled, because I had a feeling they would be a great length on my long legs. Plus the rise on them is perfectly high, above my belly button. It allowed me to rock a crop top comfortably as well! I am wearing them in a size 12 and all other reviews say to size up as well. For size reference I typically wear a size 10L in their jeans. These shorts do not have stretch, especially in the waist.

When I got these shorts I knew I wanted to try a DIY shorts suit. I loved Caitlin’s yellow one from last year (check it out here). I grabbed my new ¾ sleeve blazer from Tall & Isi, and voila it all came together. If you haven’t shopped Tall & Isi yet, or heard of them check out the site here. Isi is a new small business and as we know, they need our support to keep making us clothing that fits!

I finished it off with my white heels from Long Tall Sally (click here, available in three other colors). We’ve been questioning you all about what you’ll miss the most when LTS closes their doors and larger shoe sizes are one of the top answers. I am with you 100%, as a size US 13. If you can take advantage now, go shop LTS’s shoes section because sizes are already going quickly. We’re in the middle of compiling a comprehensive list of all the tall clothing/large shoes we know of, so stay tuned for that by the end of the week! Plus drop us a comment if you haven’t responded on Instagram of what you’ll be missing the most when LTS closes.

A couple of other things we’ve bought recently and loved from Express, are their midi dresses! Caitlin snatched up this perfect khaki colored linen dress (click here), as well as this snakeskin slip dress (click here). Plus you might remember my 90’s inspired square neck leopard midi dress (click here), if you follow on Instagram. Just filter by midi dresses to save yourself the time and frustration of scrolling through the butt cheek exposing mini dresses. We bought all of these dresses in size Large!

We’ve both also bought their ¾ sleeve blazers. It’s worth noting the larger your shoulders are you should size up. I just bought this army green version in XL (click here) and because I’m more of an hourglass shape I will need to get it tailored so it doesn’t look so boxy on me. You know we both live for a statement sleeve. I bought this red balloon sleeve peplum top (click here). I also did size Large for the shoulders, but also size down if in between!

Check back with us on Friday for our (hopefully) complete list of tall retailers, to make your future shopping as seamless as possible!