What is good description of a person?

I think listing all of those traits in rapid-fire at the very beginning of the story is lame.  Going into precise detail ("she was 5 foot 6.72534 inches tall and had 32DDD breasts") is also a little silly.

I do think most or all of those things should be included in the story at some point, but I prefer to ease most of those details into the story as the description calls for them.  Rattling them off right from the get-go reeks of lazy story-telling to me.

The first question I'd ask about any physical detail is whether it's important to the character or the story. Of course, just because it's not important doesn't necessarily mean you shouldn't include it, but if it's not important, consider whether it would hurt the storytelling to let the reader imagine that detail for themselves. For short stories in particular, it may just not be that important to paint much of a physical picture of a character.

The next thing to consider is whether it's really a notable feature of a person. Think in terms of what you notice when you meet a person. Even if you're not describing a character through the eyes of another character, it can feel unnatural if you're throwing more detail at the reader than they'd typically notice at first glance. So first think about any features that would stand out and get noticed first (e.g. a scar, wears a lot of makeup, walks in an unusual way, is particularly short or tall).

Also, it's good to avoid describing anything too precisely. I mean that both in terms of using numbers (describing someone as short or tall is generally better than giving a numerical height) and in terms of getting into too much detail at once (instead of describing the jeans and t-shirt a character is wearing, just say she was dressed casually). You can go into more detail later in the story and generally have it feel fairly natural--after all, if someone was wearing unremarkable casual clothes, you might really only register that they're dressed casually when you first meet them, but if you spent more time with them you might actually start to think about what they're actually wearing.

Which is also another point--spreading out the description over the story, particularly descriptions that go beyond broad concepts, so it's not all dropped at once, can also help make it feel less artificial.

Finally, where it's possible and feels natural, it can help to do things like work the information into dialogue, indicate it through character actions (having to look up to meet the eyes of someone tall, for example), and so on. You shouldn't try to do this for everything, because if it's done unnaturally it can break the reader's flow, but it can be worth considering whether you can slip it into the story that way.

I try not to use numbers in my descriptions unless it is necessary.  Throwing 38DD up there just sounds, well, juvenile.  Try words.  Busty, shapely, well-built, even top-heavy is better.

Likewise, I'm also of the opinion that only use as much description as you need to convey the image.  This doesn't mean get all Hemingway on it and just say "she was pretty".  Use the words you need, just don't use more than you need.

I also do suspect there is a difference between how women describe and visualize a description and how men describe and visualize descriptions.

But I've never had any instruction in writing, so take it for what it's worth.  I just look at the Aces out there and try to do what they do.

Toodles

I think as well as sounding juvenile, like a 15 year old guy was just asked to describe his perfect woman, and quite boring to read when you have a paragraph of just description, it always really interrupts the flow of the narrative. If you just spent 30 seconds reading something that only took a second of the protagonist's time it kind of jars.