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