Clicking on players is hardly the preferred method of target selection in PvP. People make short monks because they think they're cute. I think class-based height was a bad idea to begin with, made doubly worse by the dwarfish proportions allowed to female monks.

But the OP is a legitimate one, and it's something I've wondered about myself (or, more specifically, I often wonder why armor monoculture seems mostly limited to warriors, monks and rangers). I wouldn't mind eventually getting FoW armor for Nadia, but I've already got a set for each day of the week and am in no hurry to add to the collection. What I really don't understand, frankly, are the Chaos gloves.

Chaos skins are some of the worst, unimaginitive skins in the game. Whether they're axes or gloves or whatever else--utter crap. Their popularity is a rather loud indicator of bad taste. When I play games, I prefer features that couldn't be devised and implimented by a six-year-old. Part of the thrill of gaming (to me, anyway) is the promise of exposure to new and cool things--and a flare from photoshop does not meet either criteria.

But still, the topic is an interesting one to me because--even though Chaos gloves and bandannas didn't exist when I made her--I deliberately designed my monk to stand apart from the Conformed Masses. She's max height and Tyrian, although I buckled on the hair buns even though virtually all Tyrian monks use them (they're just so goddamned cute!). Most of the time she wears 15k Kurzick with the Dwarven handwraps, as I made the character PvE explicitly to acquire that set. But recently I've become quite attached to Nadia in Norn, which surprises me because I think it was the last or second to last set I picked up for her in GWEN. I think she wears Norn armor exceptionally well, and I've not seen another monk look quite as good in it, IMHO. Somehow, the black and brown works on Norn, and doesn't work on 15k Kurzick (black 15k Kurz is just icky). I'd wear a bandanna but she just looks too good in (slim) spectacles and if i did wear one, I'd not be able to stop wondering where all her hair went. That looks like a lot of hair.

EDIT: just as an aside, I thought I'd point out that in my experience, 15k Kurzick is a lot more popular among PvPers than PvE'rs. I remember seeing it a lot in HA back when I was still playing it, but I've not noticed the same trend among PvE monks. PvE monks, I've found, will have different armors, but will almost always have the chaos gloves + bandanna.