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Best jeans for tall women to find the perfect fit: Mango, Ganni and more

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Denim’s cool, casual reputation was partially built by tall women.

Calvin Klein, the first designer to showcase blue jeans on the runway, cast Brooke Shields in their famous (albeit controversial) denim commercial. A willowy Shields stood at six feet tall.

A now-iconic 1995 commercial for Versace Jeans Couture saw 5’11 supermodels Claudia Schiffer and Nadia Auerman sport nothing but straight-leg blue jeans and high heels. Cindy Crawford, who measures an elegant 5’9, starred in the 1992 Pepsi Commercial in a pair of light wash jean shorts, one of her most memorable looks to date. 

Yet this hasn’t made sourcing a pair of jeans to

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