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[sweng]

Let’s say you did tibia lengthening and ended up with a 0.9 tibia/femur proportion.  Would wearing shoe lifts after your operation look strange?  I’ve read elsewhere that this may result in one looking like they’re on stilts.

[SkyHigh77]

The stilts' comments are very common with actually no proof. It comes mostly from veterans or proportion obsessed. Unless your tibia is freakishly long and you're walking funny it probably isn't as 'stilt-like' as you or they think. 
again these .9 proportions look different on each person. you can take two 5'10 people with different proportions. And they only way to tell if something would look weird is by seeing it, not by asking random people on the internet who are overly obsessed with proportions in general suffering from their own body dysphoria vs the 95% of people who are okay with their height and unaware of others so-called 'golden ratio'
the real problem is wearing lifts which are not good for your feet and ankles ESPECIALLY when you haven't recovered completely after surgery. 

[Body Builder]

I wear shoes with about 3cm added insoles (so about 5cm total height from shoe) and I look perfectly fine, at least with long jeans etc. I never wears so I don't kniw about it.

[Medium Drink Of Water]

It depends on your pants I think.

[exceeding2meters]

The stilts' comments are very common with actually no proof. It comes mostly from veterans or proportion obsessed. Unless your tibia is freakishly long and you're walking funny it probably isn't as 'stilt-like' as you or they think. 
again these .9 proportions look different on each person. you can take two 5'10 people with different proportions. And they only way to tell if something would look weird is by seeing it, not by asking random people on the internet who are overly obsessed with proportions in general suffering from their own body dysphoria vs the 95% of people who are okay with their height and unaware of others so-called 'golden ratio'
the real problem is wearing lifts which are not good for your feet and ankles ESPECIALLY when you haven't recovered completely after surgery.

The reason 95% of people don't notice disproportions is because nobody in real life does LL. Since nobody irl has weird disproportions nobody notices it, there's nothing to notice

But if there is something to notice you will. I know a giy who is naturally very tall, with very long legs, very long arms and a tiny torso. He looks like a joke, and it is immedietaly noticeable. Imagine if you actually lengthen artiricially how weird you can end up looking

That said, with proper clothing choice, a lot can be hidden. Even Apo looks normal in clothes

[Ronman]

I probably have a slightly long tibia, and my lifts dont look too bad.

Lifts just make your feet/shoes look big, not your tibia it seems. It doesn't really affect proportions

I think lifts and height shoes (which I wear as well) are a great idea.

[SkyHigh77]

I respectfully disagree. nobody IRL has weird disproportions? is definitely inaccurate.  I was born with a condition that causes body disproportion and I know other people with similar or another condition that causes body disproportions and not noticeable unless you bring direct attention to it.  There are many genetic conditions that can cause this btw not just the one I have.
MANY people in real life have different proportions, most do NOT fit the golden ratio at least according to the doctors I've seen(26 at this point) and some tailors I've known.
It really depends on race, gender, DNA, ethnicities that cause differences.  two 5'10 people can have different proportions. Long torso/short legs vs long legs/short torso despite the same height. You can find a lot of examples with KPOP stars. The majority of them are mostly legs. There are tons of studies of skeletal abnormalities (what I have), the genetic effect on limb differences.
I think most people aren't aware that those conditions/issues exist unless you have them but doesn't mean we don't exist. People with scoliosis tend to have a distorted torso and many I know end up getting butt implants to increase their sitting height and ease their backs but that's a whole other conversation.
if any want more info on skeletabl abnormalities on body disproportion then they should do a deep dive in scientific journals about this for more accuracy