What if your body is short relative to your head?

imageHa ha! Is it bad that it took me four years to get around to answering this question? Years ago, Janel Messenger asked me about length balancing when the body is seven head-lengths, as opposed to the eight prescribed in the triumph of individual style. Then last year, when I was costuming Carrie the Musical, one of the shorter actors mentioned her proportion challenge. So, it has been on my mind.

Fast forward to these past several months, when I have been exploring my own personal proportions challenge:
Because my hair and skin are close to the same color value, my head length is my actual head length, including my hair
.

imageHere is a little experiment I did concerning body-length proportions. As you can see, the model (wearing Pucci) looks fabulous – and is only seven head-lengths. I
would point out that she has the strong breaks in her outfit at head-lengths, as do I.

I also wonder whether more youthful styles work better with this proportion. Thoughts? After all, children’s heads are longer relative to their bodies.

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