/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

I wanted to make a thread like this for a while, because the struggle is real.
How tall are you, or for how long have you been active in sports? (or both)
Being forever locked out of cute empire waist pieces, OTK socks, cute shoes and pretty much everything that comes from Asia, we suffer. What's your solution?
I'm 6'0, with a wide torso and muscular calves from 16 years of swimming. Most of the time I buy the cute things F21 has been selling, since I really like gyaru and larme-kei. I also started looking into sewing recently so I can alter clothes that are too short on me.