I had a little bit of time this afternoon to put on some makeup and try a couple of smart looks for summer with skirts and high heels.
My first skirt is a very old favourite and was the skirt I wore the first time I ever walked out of my own front door dressed in 2010 (see below). It's a black three-quarter length item with a colourful flower motif in very light material (and needs an underskirt/slip because sunlight will shine through it). I wore black suede kitten heels (a present from Carol many years ago). And a new, loose, short-sleeved shirt, also black. I decided to accessorise with sheer gloss tights (another gift, from Roz) to add a bit of summer shine, and various small pieces of sparkly jewellery.
I also wore this skirt on a lovely summer's day at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, London, where I went for a picnic with Petra and Joanne in 2011. This is one of my favourite photos. I wore a tomato red T-shirt that I loved and which appears in so many photos from my days in London!
At home today again.
Then I changed to a shorter black skirt and higher heels with the same top. A more secretarial look, perhaps. I actually changed my earrings, too, to a more dangly pair but I don't think you can tell!
It's a hot evening so that was about all I could do with the heavy wig without my makeup sliding off. One of the many problems of being T!
I think there'll be a few more of these quick look posts as the summer progresses.
A dip in the archive
Recollections of leaving the house dressed as a woman for the first time never fade from memory.
I recommend my friend Deeanna's gripping account of her first trip out of the house on her blog here: The Walk.
I recounted my own first time out (in the floral skirt) here: Getting out the front door. A tale of serious nerves ... and feeling ever bolder as the day wore on.
Thanks for reading. As ever, comments on my outfits are welcome.
Sue x
Summer smart indeed, and I do like the pairing of the skirt with the red top.
ReplyDeleteVery glossy legs in the short skirted secretarial look.
First days out. I think mine was about a week just before I started the blog. Probably only for a half hour round the block late at night but nerve wracking. (There was an opportunity when I was in my teens as part of a dare but I funked it as it was too close to what I secretly wanted and I was afraid that I would give myself away.
Thanks, Susie. I must get back to red - but the waistline needs to co-operate! I needed flash hence the over-glossy legs - they're not that obvious in real life.
DeleteGoing out for the first time is truly nerve wracking and many people I know have never managed it despite looking amazing. And, yes, those opportunities when young that had to be ditched to avoid detection ... too many of those.
Sue x
I'm loving your new photos. You look amazing. Thanks for the plug for my story. I read your account of your first time out and it seems so much more exciting than mine, but then I was just a kid still, playing in Mummy's clothes so perhaps a trip like yours would have been pretty impossible for me.
DeleteI remember our day at Kew and if I recall correctly we both got through the gate without incident. So you were unlucky to get a jobsworth on your first day. But you got through it which must have given you the belief that you can get by in the big bad world. Well done for a big achievement. I do remember talking to you at the UK Angels 10th Birthday bash, and encouraging you to go out in public, given that I was a so experienced with my 2 trips out into the real world! Lol.
I'm going to write about our days out together on future posts. They were special days and I hope we get to do it again one day.
I'm enjoying your Quick Look posts.
xxx
Aw, thank you so much, Dee.
DeleteI'll look forward to your reminiscences of those happy times. No, we had no problems with the staff at Kew, but then we went through one of the main gates whereas on my first trip I'd just gone through a side gate, hence no crowd to hide in.
Sue x
"A tale of serious nerves..."
ReplyDeleteIndeed and that fear can hold us back if we're unlucky.
A fab choice of outfit and hopefully the weather cools down so you can stay fancy for longer.
Thank you, Lynn.
DeleteThe weather has cooled this weekend; it's quite surprising.
I have no cure for nerves. One day you stamp on them and do what you desire. Or you don't. I don't blame anyone for the latter.
Sue x
You look very nice dear Sue with this outfit. And I LOVE the pic of -as assume- your first outing. I also love shorter skirts - as you might have noticed- but I think on you the first one looks better. And yes, it´s true, you always remember your first outing when you could have made a picture.
ReplyDeleteHave a good time and a wonderful August.
Violetta
Thank you, dear Violetta. I appreciate your compliments very much since you are an elegant lady yourself.
DeleteI did take pictures on my first outing but I hate them! So the photo you see with the red T-shirt was taken in the same place, but the following year. I look a lot better than the first time!
Sue x