A couple of more pictures

Still from our photo shoot yesterday. Just wanted to add them because I am an attention whore. Funny Barbara likes the camera, and the other guy can't stand posing or pictures of himself. Dee's evil plan is to desensitize me en femme mode to the camera so she can sneak up en homme and get me to pose as my handsome self. I think I'll play hard to get for a bit longer. Tell me I'm pretty...

How to get from A to B fast with heels.

Carry them!
Last week I was thinking gender bending in my clothing choices. I wore women's dockers to church (I know weak) but I did pair them with women's loafers in a glove leather. While putting that together at a series of thrift stores, I came across the perfect en femme 'Sunday shoes'. Mind you I would NEVER wear them to church, but its a giggle to think about it. They are spectator pumps I came to know after the fact. (Thanks, Stephanie). Black toe, black heel with wide ankle strap, cut-away instep and white band above the toe with a punched hole detail like on wingtips.

4" heel but a little wider heel than I like, but I found I cant even walk in actual stilettos yet. I have spent a lifetime noticing women's shoes and watching them move in them. Turns out that doesn't help with actually wearing them.

So a few days ago I strapped on the spectator pumps. Next I wriggled into my black leather skirt, briefly arguing with Dee that yes, I know the tag goes in the back but there's only one slit and that wouldn't put the slit in either the front or the back. She explained that on short skirts the single slit over the leg is better at making it walkable than a slit in the middle which actually doesn't help. I slipped on a cute "dove for" stretch top that I nabbed out of the bag before my 12 year-old clothes horse. Finally, I hopped on the treadmill for practice.

I found that anything over 1.3 mph and my gait gets really awkward.

"So," I ask Dee,"how does your gait change in heels when you have to move quickly in heels? What do you do differently when you have to move fast?"

Simple she says..you take them off.

For the record I managed 4 mph without breaking an ankle or (worse) a heel.

I didn't maintain that pace of course. I worked on my deportment for a while.

I haven't yet walked a mile in a GG's shoes, but I did manage a 1/2 mile. Most surprising thing was how little ones calves have to do with walking in heels, Ironic because calves look so nice and athletic in heels.

When we did the photos yesterday, I brought the spectators also even though Dee frowned on the pairing with the dress. The shoes in the pictures I like,but I once tried to walk 1/2 a block to the mailbox and came home crippled. I found this time after the treadmill practice and wearing thicker hose, they were tolerable, and more importantly, cute.

I started walking down the slope with the thin heels spiking into the soft, wet ground and with a grin followed Dee's advice and took them off. I asked Dee to get a shot of me heels in hand to prove that I indeed can learn.

Barbara sees the light of day!

Finally went out dressed for some pictures. Had fun.

Some Pictures of Barbara

These are some pictures that I took with my SO to document my progress so far:

Here is my head shot. We are learning to apply my makeup in a way that best suits and flatters me, as well as helping me to feel pretty. We decided to go with a black & white picture until we have makeup that is better suited to covering my 5 o'clock shadow.


These pictures are re-creations of the outfit that I reluctantly tried on because pants seemed to be too unisex. However, it was in this outfit, that my SO first confronted with the fact that I looked like a woman rather than the spouse she had been married to for many years. She was a little disconcerted at the time, which I found incredibly flattering and validating. At the time, I hadn't taken the opportunity to shave my legs. Now that they are smooth, I can get that reaction from her in hosiery and a cute pair of heels.




And finally, this is a picture of me, wearing and outfit from our first shopping trip together. Underneath, I am wearing a waist cinching girdle and a bra. I didn't think the bra would work at first, but was delighted to find that it did in fact give me the shape that I am working toward. Foundation garments have always intrigued me. As a child, my first "porn" was found in the Women's Undergarment section of the Sears catalog.