Sentence:  An adorably gangly salesman with <WSD>stalky</WSD> black hair and a cough (“I'm giving up smoking, and it's all coming up”) set up a dressing room for me, and I tried on a black tux shirt with a subtly embroidered bib ($185), a soft ivory-colored jersey ($135) and an olive-green button-front shirt ($165). 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Long and thin, like a stalk of a plant.