Down Under

I work for the Golden State Warriors. Yes. The NBA team.  No.  I do not play for them (you would be amazed how many people ask me this). Anywho, the reason I am telling you this is that our season is over (sniff...sniff...tears) and because of this there are no games to work and...

Get to the point already!!!

Ok ok...so I say all of that to say this...no games means no overtime. No overtime means Alicia Jay is on a budget.

Oh, you are too?

It totally sucks!  But hey, it could be worse...you could have no budget at all (True story. Giving thanks always).

No worries.  TallSWAG is here to make sure you ball on a budget.  Check out these ten tall buys under $100 (yippeee:)!

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WOMENS TALL CHAMBRAY TIE-HEM TOP at Old Navy. $22. S-XXL. 

SUNRISE CRINKLE SKIRT at Long Elegant Legs. $59. S-XXL. 41" long. 

STEVE MADDEN TRACEY FLAT at BareFoot Tess. $59. 11-14. Comes in 6 colors (I want them all but my budget said NO)

CANVAS SHORT at Gap. $39.95. 4-16. Comes in 6 colors.  

THE LEL MAXI DRESS at Long Elegant Legs. $89. S-XXL. Comes in 4 colors.

TALL MARISA WIDE LEG PANT IN OVERSIZED IKAT PRINT LINEN at Ann Taylor LOFT. $69.50. 0-18. 36" inseam.

AVA ROMPER WITH COWL BACK at Height Goddess. $39. Small-extra large. Comes in 2 colors. (I have it and I love it) Video review by Chantelle Anderson HERE.

WOMEN'S SHANIA WEDGE SLING at Payless.com. $19.99. 5-13. If they don't have your size online check your local stores at the bottom of the page.

CANDY SKINNY JEANS at PZI Jeans. $79. 4-18. Inseams up to 38". Comes in 7 colors. Also comes in a distressed option.

SPOT PALAZZO PANT at Long Tall Sally. $79. 6-18. 36" inseam.

Cap It Off

I know you have seen them all over the place.  They are one of THE shoes for spring.  Most of them are flat but the trend takes all shapes and sizes. I'm talking about the cap toe. 

Sometimes they are metal, sometimes they are sequin and other times they are patent.  There are endless many ways to rock the cap.  One popular option are natural tones.  They are versatile but still showcase the pop of the cap toe.  

Having a hard time finding one in your size? The search is ova! Pick and click below.


JUST CAP IT. (left to right, top to bottom) Pressly by Michael Kors (Nordstrom, $97.95, sizes 4-12), Atlanta by B.F.T. (Barefoot Tess, $49, sizes 11-15), Dairia by Naturalizer (Macys, $89, sizes 5-12), Outbust by Nine West (Long Tall Sally, $69, sizes 10-12), Certain Ballerina Flat by French Sole FS/NY (Endless, $155, sizes 5-12), Luminaire by Nine West (Piperlime, $59.99, sizes 10.5 & 12), Del by Corso Como (Exceptional Footprints, $139, sizes 11 & 12), Claire Scrunch Flat (Payless, $29.99, sizes 11-13), Beatrix by Sam Edelman (Zappos, $130, Sizes 5-12). Check out Crystal from Zappos rockin the Beatrix cap toe flat below.

Links:

(left to right, top to bottom) Pressly at Nordstrom, Atlanta at Barefoot Tess, Outbust at Long Tall Sally; Certain Ballerina Flat at Endless; Luminaire at Piperlime; Del at Exceptional Footprints; Claire Scrunch Flat at Payless; Beatrix at Zappos. 

Stand Tall In this LTS Maxi Skirt

It's Long Tall Sally Stand Tall Week (cheers:) and The LTS Cut About Stripe Maxi Skirt is definitely something you can STAND TALL in.

I am 6'6" and when I wear flats the skirt hits the floor (yay!). It looks great with a fierce pair of wedges too.

Check out my review and you will see exactly why it's the perfect piece to showcase during the Long Tall Sally Stand Tall Week!

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Stand Tall Week

April 16-22 is going to be one amazing week!  Introducing (drum roll please)...STAND TALL WEEK presented by Long Tall Sally!

It's a week long celebration of everything tall.  Tall fashion, tall beauty and tall empowerment.  What could be better? 

Here's the skinny on STW:

Stand Tall Week was created by Long Tall Sally to show every tall woman that their height is to be celebrated and embraced. The week is filled with everything tall including tall model scouting, a week long pop-up shop and fashion presentation and appearances by tall expert Arianne Cohen. Side note: I LOVE the logo with the heel in it. Rock those heels tall beauties!

We all know how I love a Long Tall Sally pop-up shop and this one is open for an entire week! Unfortuantely my jet is in the shop right now (hehe:) or I would fly out and shop everyday! Click for store details and check out the TallSWAG video below to see what you can expect at an LTS pop-up.

Meet tall expert Arianne Cohen. She is 6'3", a tall expert and is the author of The Tall Book (She's also from Portland, OR which also happens to be my hometown! PO! Woop Woop!). Click the pic for more on Ms. Cohen and her rold in STW.Long Tall Sally has amazing clothes. Instead of extending them and calling them 'tall' they actually create them for tall women. That's right ladies, they make cllothes JUST for us! Click to see what one of their garments looks like on in the TallSWAG review on their amazing shirt dress.

I know that the Long Tall Sally Stand Tall Week is going to change the lives of tall women.  I encourage everyone to take part in some way, shape or form.  We need more events like this to spread the message, to every tall girl and woman on this earth, that tall is beautiful!

Let's keep this going.  How are you going to spread the message?

Tall Girls: A Story of Giants...?

I just watched the trailer for Tall Girls: A Story of Giants.

I still have tears in my eyes.

The trailer for this movie is both sickening and disheartening.  The fact that there are women out there getting surgeries to stop their growth is disgusting… 

The fact that the modeling industry is so cookie-cutter that a 6’2” model would have to lie on their resume and say they are 6’ to get jobs, is pathetic…

The fact that a doctor would react to a height of 190cm (roughly 6’3”) with "obviously that’s a body size that a girl can’t be happy with", is just plain repulsive.

While I am excited that there is a movie about tall women, I really hope that the trailer does not reflect the entire message.  I am praying that the film isn’t entirely negative because TALL IS BEAUTIFUL!  I hope they include some proud tall ladies in the movie so that it’s not another method of reinforcing the false notion that women are (and as the title of the film puts it) giants if their height supersedes the ‘norm’ (by the way, if I ever find norm I am going to crush it, burn it and flush the ashes down the toilet).

This film is EXACTLY why I created TallSWAG and T SWAG.  We need to shout TALL IS BEAUTIFUL from the rooftops and stop this way of thinking so a negative trailer like this can’t even be created.

Tall is Beautiful. NEVER let anyone tell you different!

SOUND OFF! What do you think of the movie Tall Girls: A Story of Giants?

CLICK TO WATCH THE TRAILER FOR TALL GIRLS: A STORY OF GIANTS.