There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.
I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even out the discrepancy.
The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.