New Clothes Nowhere to Go
Two dresses, handbag and a pair of shoes – snakeskin 4″ heeled strappy sandals arrived yesterday from boohoo.com – possibly my favourite online clothes store.
Only one mistake, the shoes are going back. Think mutton, possibly tarty. Can’t get away with that anymore – they’d probably look fantastic on a twenty-something.
Anyhoos, tried them all on which only made me want to go out. BNO was out of the question even though I’d have loved to have gone. Too far at such short notice. Messaged Jane (local girl) on TV Chix, but she replied later saying she’d just got back from shopping at Meadowhall with her daughter. No joy there.
Stayed in and watched the concluding episode of Collision
Still, mustn’t complain – out on Tuesday. London, photoshoot – think different. Male and female dress modes. Got to sort out locations. Changing could be a problem, though. After that, going to a muggle meeting (dressed) where a group of people I’ve never met before are gathering in a restaurant/bar to discuss ‘Identity’. Emailed the organiser and she’s fine about me coming as Alex, or I’m assuming she is :)
The group meet once a month, in London, to discuss various subjects of a philosophical nature, and have a guest expert to keep everyone on the rails so to speak. It’s my first adventure of this kind – could be interesting.
Friday, I’m off to Coco’s second party. If you haven’t heard me wax lyrical about her house parties read the previous post.
Other than that been reading Joe McNally’s “Hot Shoe Diaries” – really entertaining. But not so useful if you don’t have a Nikon D700
I guess that’s all.
Two New Galleries
You know those idle Sunday afternoon moments when you’re just that little bit too bored? When dangerous ideas can masquarade as innocent ones? Had one of those moments, grabbed the camera and headed into the town centre.
Said innocent idea being to capture the high street from a women’s fashion perspective, with the aim of starting a chronicle. It’s a slim possibility this could have been an idea germinating at the back of the brain since 2007 when I took a couple of shots of a red dress I fell in love with at Meadowhall. I had gone prepared as I was killing time while my daughters were at a gig at Sheffield Arena.
Back to last Sunday. Had this ‘brilliant’ idea that by taking regular window shopping shots I could build up a record of women’s high street fashion that would be far more authentic than any magazine retrospective in years to come. Just not sure now whether it was a flash of genius or something that’s going to send me on a fool’s errand. Time will tell.
So, for starters, I give you high street fashion 2007 (only a handful) and the start this last weekend of high street fashion 2009. Was it such a daft idea, or not?
The Tall Lady
It all started a few days ago when I saw, in a forum, someone looking for a locally-based (Bristol) shoe retailer that stocked larger sizes. I recalled seeing such a service and after trawling the net for a while tracked down “The Tall Lady“.
And as luck would have it the owner, Peta, had just written a blog article about how passionate she was about finding clothes and shoes to fit the taller woman. So I thought why not ask if she’d be happy dealing with transvestites and transexuals. Within a few days of leaving a comment in her blog she replied and then emailed me to say she’d be delighted to help anyone.
The beauty of her service is that if you’re at all shy about doing a shoe fitting in a typical retail environment she can help out by doing fittings from her home, a truly discreet service.
You can find her blog post here.
Earrings for the tranny: pierced to clip-on converter
Just seen, a few days ago, a post to clip-on earring converter thingy – hope this helps…
Disclaimer: haven’t a clue if it works or not. :)