July 2012 Poll Results: What’s Too High?

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ShareLast month, we asked readers “how high is too high?” when it comes to heels. Most of you believe that anything higher than 5″ is “too high” at 42.3% while some 26.9% believed that heels should top off at 3-4″.  Then there are those, at 23.1%, who believe that there’s “no such thing as too [...]

June Poll Results: Most Like Seeing a Mix of Models and Celebrities in Magazines

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ShareFirst of all, apologies for the delay in posting the June results as well as the July poll – being out of town and then immediately having out-of-town guests is a lot of work!  Last month, we asked readers whether they preferred seeing models or celebrities in magazines. We were not exactly too surprised with [...]

Poll Results on Maxi Dresses and Skirts on Petites: Yay or Nay?

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ShareLast month, we asked you whether you thought that maxi skirts and dresses worked well on us petites.  We were a little bit surprised about the results – didn’t think that there’d be an even split between a “definite yay” and NO (both at 32%).  My question to those who think long, period is bad [...]

April Poll Results on Body Image Activists and Petites (and Giveaway Recepient)

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ShareLast month, we asked our readers: Do you think anti-size zero activists understand that zero can be a “real” size for petites?  The results were definitely not surprising: While 31% of you believed that body image activists only had issues with tall, size zero models, 23% of you believed that they don’t quite understand the [...]

March 2012 Poll Results: Petite Sizing Ownership and You

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ShareLast month’s question asked you what percentage of your closet is made up of petite sizes.  I was NOT surprised to find out that for many of you, it occupies a good chunk of your wardrobe.  33% of you said that petite sizing occupied 80% or more of your wardrobe (I guess this means there’s [...]

Poll Results: Have Petite Blogs Helped You?

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Share Last month, we asked readers whether petite blogs have helped you become more stylish and “in-the-know” about what fits a shorter figure.  Of those who participated, 62.5% said that petite blogs have definitely helped, 16.7% said that it depends, since most of the blogs focus on business/office-related clothing, while they were looking for something [...]

January Poll Results: Are You A Member of Any Flash Sale Sites?

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ShareLast month, we asked you whether you were members of any flash sale sites.  It was kind of surprising to find that more than 41% (41.2%, actually) of you didn’t know what they were, since so many people have been talking about them over the past few months.  Some of you, at 29.4% said that [...]

Petite Models Should Be Petite: December Poll

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ShareLast month, we asked readers: “What should be the maximum height for a PETITE MODEL modelling for a PETITE LINE?” I was not surprised that an overwhelming number of you – 73.4% – said that petite models should actually be petite (5’4″ or below).  Some allowed a one inch leeway (after all, regular runway models [...]

November 2011 Poll Results: Most Would Get Custom if Affordable

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ShareLast month, we asked our readers whether they’d ever contact a designer to get something custom made.  Results were not too surprising.  Almost everyone, at almost 92%, said that they would if it were affordable, while only 8% said that they wouldn’t, only because they didn’t have model’s body type (i.e. tall and very skinny).  [...]

Petite Size Promotion Must Come from All

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ShareLast month, Shorty Stories asked readers this question:  Do you think companies do enough to promote their petite sizes?  Results are in, and we are not too surprised. Out of all of those who were asked, over half, at 58% believed that companies weren’t doing enough – they might put information on their websites, but [...]

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