Under 5'10 shop owner Elie Robinson, left, and Jonathan Glaubach, store vice president, in the Cedarhurst store that carries clothing for shorter men. Photo Credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr.
“I’m five foot seven and struggled to find stuff that would fit me off the rack,” says Elie Robinson, of Cedarhurst. “I used to buy jeans with a 30-inch inseam because that’s all I could get. I’d tough it out with them bunched up, or go to a tailor, but the tapering is never the same once you hem a pant.”
That's why Robinson, 43, a former tech and e-commerce entrepreneur, recently opened Under 5’10, a Cedarhurst shop serving not-so-tall men just like him. And like Jonathan Glaubach, 50, of Woodmere, who stands five feet two.
A mini tartan blue button-down with a tailored fit, $40 at Under 5'10 in Cedarhurst,
under510.com. Photo Credit: Under 5’10
“Shirts would drape on me,” says Glaubach, vice president of product and retail for Under 5’10. “I’d never be able to wear them untucked, and they’d be so long they almost touched my knees.”