Confessions of a Turtle Mom: 39 – Passing Down The Short Gene

There are many genetic legacies that parents pass down. Some are appreciated (beauty, intelligence, a propensity to leanness), some are not. My dad was 5'7″. My mom was 5'5″. I'm 5'2″…and a half. Height was really not in my direct gene pool.

Listening to wedding dress salespeople talking about the work involved in hemming a voluminous wedding gown makes me wonder what vertically challenged Victorians did when they got hand-me-down gowns that needed taking up four or five inches at the...