Our friends, trying to be helpful, often suggest that we visit a children's department. This can be impractical because children's departments offer styles that are better suited to children, not adults. There is also an ego factor. Men and women are adults. They left the immaturity of childhood years or decades ago and don't want to return to any aspect of it, just because they are smaller than the adult norm. To help, we have searched extensively throughout the Web to find stores and advice for small men and women.

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• Men
  Stores that sell clothes and accessories to short men are rare but here are a dozen you may find useful as well as some sites that offer fashion advice for short men.

• Women
  There are many more stores and departments that sell to petite women. However, their definition of petite may be narrow and they many not offer clothes and accessories for very short women. With so many options, it is likely you will find what you are looking for but it may take some persistence.

If you find any stores that are particularly useful, please Contact Us and we will include them on these pages.