outfit almost assembled

I've been gradually assembling my round the world outfit as you know, wanting to push things a little further than just wearing mary janes.  I know, it's not 'normal' but I still want to do it none the less.

I have a pair of denim dungarees (womens cut) which are very cool if slightly baggy on me (dammit!) - I should have ordered the next size down, but going by the measurements, they looked as if they would have been too small.

My Cafe Press order arrived yesterday with my tshirts - the lovely pink and white 3/4 length sleeved top like this one is what I will be wearing :)  Not too girly then ;)

If it gets cold, I have a nice jumper to over the top.  Not any old jumper, but a nice soft girls pink one.

Next up will be shoes - now, I could go for one of my pairs of mary jane shoes - most likely the Amanda black ones as they are the biggest and would look awesome with pink socks - however, I've bought some pink patent Dr Marten Boots

Perfecto!  They'll go nicely with the dungarees and totally in keeping with the pink look!

I'll also be wearing these.  

Lets hope I don't get strip searched then ;)

So, thats my travel outfit sorted - whats the chances of me getting round the world unscathed?

socks and Doc's

I got some new stripy pink socks to wear with my doc martens mary janes the other day.  

They're pretty cool and should be ok to wear with my suit and pink work shirt too ;)  Mixing it up!

Anyway - I had a little time on my hands, so I thought I'd treat you to a fashion show. Also, for the occasion, I wore my capri-length tight cropped jeans and jumper dress - a combination that I would dearly love to have the balls to wear out in public!

Hope you like :)

I did it

wow, I finally went through with my plan in the previous post.

I had the tight cropped pedal pusher jeans, pink girls sports polo and my triple straps in a bag.  I changed in a toilet in the city and locked my male clothes in the bag - the keys to while were back in my car at the station.  45 minutes train ride away.

I was now stuck in a toilet, in the middle of a mall in the city, with no way other than to brazen it out and go home dressed up like that.

Awesome.

I took some photos before I walked out, well, of my legs, there wasn't a good mirror.

I discovered that the mall had closed whilst I was in the toilet - so I had to ask a maintenance guy to let me out - embarrassing, but he didn't even blink.

As I walked through the city, I got so many looks, I'm not surprised - I don't look anything like a girl!
The rail ticket inspectors did a double take and I caught them looking at me as I went down the escalator to the platform - a raised eyebrow from me and they looked away!  Clearly I looked very suspect!  Well, lets face it, tight cropped womens pedal pushers and a pink tshirt on a bloke is not exactly normal!!

I took this on the platform as I waited for the train

Got some very interesting looks as I got on the train, it was well past rush hour though, so it wasn't packed.  One guy keep staring, which was a bit disconcerting.  As I got off the train, everyone looked as I walked past, some even craning their necks to get a better look.  The guards by the station entrance were having a good whisper to themselves too.

This is the station that I travel from every day - hopefully people were focussing on the clothing and not the face!!!

All in all - a good adventure, but this city and town where I live is too small to do this a lot - eventually someone I know will see me and thats not good.  I think I'll have to wait till I go on another around the world adventure to dress up again in public like this.

Do you reckon I should wear this (or maybe a tunic dress too) on the plane?

Dressing for pleasure

So, I picked up a bundle of girls clothes - a gorgeous mini kilt, a puffed sleeved ivory top with bow on the chest, some over the knee socks.  Fantastic.  All good things to play with if you have Mary Janes ;)

I spent the week waiting to wear them, but really didn't get the opportunity as I had other commitments, but thats ok, just one of those things.

I had hoped to drive a couple of hours, dress up, lock my male clothes in a bag and then be forced to drive home dressed up, but that never really happened.  All I got to do was to go shopping wearing my black Amanda MJ's and white lace socks.  That was still fun tho.

Anyway, at the airport, I had an idea and got changed (in the airport carpark) into 3/4 length skinny girls jeans, my brown docs (no socks) and drove to a local mall.  I decided to just go for it - brazen, in girls jeans and shoes in broad daylight.

I got some stares - man, plenty of those, but nothing else - no hassle, nothing.

I picked up a gorgeous black puff sleeved t-shirt, a pink girls sports polo and a mid thigh length knit dress/top and walked over to pay.  Not one look.  Plenty of stares on the way out, particularly as I changed into the tunic top in the toilets ;)

No shame!

So, I now have a complete outfit - perfect tight crop jeans, lots of shoes that fit and can be easily worn with bare feet and a few tops depending on how daring I'm feeling.  I can wear the pink polo and the tight jeans (which have bling all over the back pockets) and know that I look right on the bleeding edge of male/female clothing.  Cropped jeans are popular over here with men too, although they're a different shape cut.  Bare feet with shoes - same deal.  Just not with brown twin strap MJ Docs :)

I went out to the chemist all dressed up, tunic top, jeans, burgundy docs - bold as brass, walked right in.  The sales girl didn't bat an eyelid.

I have a plan for tomorrow.  Its daring, bold and fucking scary.

Take the pink polo, crop jeans, brown docs to work in a bag.  After work, go to the mall in the city, change, lock my male clothes in the bag, forcing me to travel home on the train in girl clothes top to bottom (yes, I even have underwear - I'll spare you the details)

I'll leave the padlock keys in my car (and a backup somewhere else, just in case).  I'll have no choice.  I have to go home, on the train, with people I might see every day, possibly at work, I wont really know, dressed up in a very questionable outfit.

I wonder if I'll go through with it?

shopping

So, one of the first things I did when I got off the plane was to go shopping.  As you know, I kinda like playing dress up and stuff, so I decided to get a few items of clothing that I couldn't get at home, including some cool pink socks.  Oh yes.

To traipse around the shop, I wore my black Amanda MJ' and white lacy schoolgirl socks, which are fairly obvious!

I love these shoes, but even with these socks, nobody batted an eyelid.  Even when I went to the checkout with an armful of girls clothes and pink socks.

Later in the trip, I went to a huge shopping mall dressed in the same shoe/sock combo to get even more girls clothes.  I came away with a few interesting items but didn't quite get the opportunity to dress in some obviously girly clothes as well.

I really wish I'd pushed it a little further now.  A lot further.  Ah well.  I put that thought to one side for another day and I have some stories to tell about that!!  Oh yes!  And I have plenty of ideas to take this further too.

In other news, I got my black t-bar docs stretched.  They were, if you remember, a bit too small and made my feet hurt after a few hours.  Well, I found a proper old school cobbler who was brilliant - he stuck them on his jig for 24 hours and they fit a lot better now.  Enough to maybe wear them for another extended outing.

Around the world in Mary Janes

I have some good news.  My new brown twin strap Doc's are actually a better fit that I first thought, all is not lost as I had previously supposed!!!

I've worn them a few times and they actually fit perfectly - woo for a size 7 then :)

Anyway, I had to go on another trip, and just like last time, I thought I'd wear a pair of my Doc's - what better opportunity than to take my new brown ones for a spin.

They are actually seriously girly when you look at them - the perforations on the toe just scream 'little girl' - I think the brown finish actually makes them more girly rather than less.

So, I donned a nice clean pair of white socks (of course), packed my Amanda ones too with the knee high white lacy socks and set off.  I too some photos as I went about my travels, at the airport, stop over and all sorts.

They're very cool shoes and they fitted well enough that I wore them for 24 hours straight with no issues, including some very long walks through the airport where I had to change planes.  I got tons of looks, quizzical expressions, stares etc, but no comments.  None at all.  You really can just do what you want, nobody will question you.  I was worried about being snapped with a cam phone and plastered on the internet, but somehow I don't think that's a big deal.  Maybe someones facebook page has a picture of me on, who knows!

Anyway, on the way back, I did the same thing, I'd washed my socks with super whitening powder so they really shone and glowed.  Lots of people noticed, again, nobody said a thing.  I'm a bit disappointed really, one of these days I'd like a nice girl to comment!!

Such a lot of fun, especially at the baggage reclaim, everyone was trying not to look.  Brilliant.

It was sad to come home again, knowing I'd have to take them off.  Except I had other ideas ;)  But before I tell you about that, there's more from my trip that I need to share - you'll have to wait till next time ;)

Socks!

So, sorry for my absence, it's not as if I don't have stories either, I'm just slack!

To whet your appetite, here's a pic of my gorgeous triple straps with some new pink socks I picked up a week back. I was going to wear them to work with my new and equally gorgeous pink polo shirt that I bought only yesterday, but it's a new job and I don't want to rock the boat in week 2! So it's ordinary shoes with the pink socks - still a good combo though!

Coming up soon:

Travelling around the world in girls shoes again

Dressing for pleasure

Secret sauce

more adventures

I had lots of opportunity yesterday to go out in my new brown Doc Martens, so I made the most of it - 3 separate occasions!

1.  Shopping
2.  Hair cut
3.  Errands

Awesome - got totally spotted by a little kid whilst shopping who pointed me out to her mum, who really didn't care.  I want some pretty young girls to notice!!  Dammit!

I love these shoes so much.  Now I just need a nice pair of pink socks and a pink polo to wear with them!

The haircut and errands didn't cause any undue surprises - nobody really noticed which was a shame, but there you go.

I really want to go out with these whilst wearing shorts or a short skirt and over the knee argyle or white knit socks, schoolgirl style, but I don't think that would be wise in broad daylight!

However, I can see myself playing one of games one of these days - changing out of my male clothes and locking them in a bag, leaving me with no choice but to go retrieve the ket in whatever I am wearing.  I'm going to buy some cropped jeans next week and also some very girly tunic type tops to go with them - those with the shoes with some girly socks could be quite interesting to explain away!!

Anyway, for now, just the shoes :)

Oh man, its happened again

Sorry for the hiatus, I just haven't had the chance for hi-jinks recently - I know, lame, you don't have to tell me.

Anyway, last time, I had just bought some lovely brand new brown twin-strap Doc Marten mary-jane type shoes, only to discover that they were too small as they were a Chinese variant of the shoe which has a totally different shape to the UK made ones.

So I have (if anyone wants them and are a UK size 7) - a pair of redundant brown shoes.

I decided to scour ebay again in search of some larger ones, some UK8's or US 10 - they'll be fine as thats closer to my actual shoe size.  This took a little time, and with Christmas in the middle, I had to wait until I could justify opening my wallet again ;)

Anyway, a gorgeous pair of hardly worn brown US size 10 twin straps show up and I'm there like a shot.  They arrive yesterday and I realise they are pretty tight.

They are a UK 7 - even though they were advertised as a US 10, which is an 8.

Bugger.

They're lovely though, and only a little small (at least compared to the actual size 10's from before that I really can't wear) so I think I'll keep them and try to stretch them a little to make them fit.  Somehow the brown ones are actually more girly than the black ones - I was expecting it to be the other way around!  Ah well - should be fun when I wear them out then ;)

So - photos for your viewing pleasure!  I wore them with my lacy school socks, just to set them off - cute huh?

Hopefully I'll get more chances this week to wear these shoes, we'll see how it goes - anything I do manage will get blogged - promise!

Noooooo!

I'm plagued by misfortune and stupid sizing of shoes!

As you may remember from the last post, I just bought some new Dr Martens in a size 8, thinking that these would be bigger and enable me to wear them all day without any problems.

Well, the shoes arrived and they're gorgeous.

Except they are no bigger than my black twin strap shiny ones, which are a UK 7.

The reason - these ones are made in China and the shape of the shoe, particularly around the toebox is totally different to the ones made in England.

*sob*

so they don't really fit any better than a UK 7, plus, I'm not so keen on the look of the toe, which is much more pointed than the bulbous asymmetrical toe box on the UK made shoe.

Damn damn damn!!

So, at some point in the near future, I'm going to have a shoe sale to get rid of the ones that dont fit me well, see if I recover some of the money and use it to fund some shoes that do.  Which might have to be in a shoe shop, if I can get over my embarrassment.

more new shoes!

I know, I'm a shoe whore, what can I say?

So, as I like to wear these shoes all day, I really do need to wear UK 8's and not 7's, so I found a pair of wonderful brown double strap t-bar MJ's on ebay for a really good price.  Hopefully they'll get here soon :)

I'll have to sell some of the size 7's I think - probably the black single strap t-bar's as they are really too small for me and I can't wear them for a whole day without wishing I could cut off my feet- and possibly the burgundy double strap t-bar ones too, although they have an elastic strap so they are not too bad - plus I like how girly the colour is :)

Anyway - here's a picture - cool :)  I'll be wearing these lots.

On a similar note - I found these on ebay too - in a UK8/US10.  Incredible Hello Kitty limited edition mary jane Doc Martens.  They are seriously expensive so I don't think I'll be bidding, plus I'd never be able to wear them anywhere, so whats the point.  But I still want them!!!

working in girls shoes and socks

After a couple of times of wearing mary janes to the office with dark socks, I decided to wear the Amanda black Doc Martens with purple girly stripy socks.

I was pretty nervous about this as these shoes are unambiguously girls shoes (not like the brown triple straps t-bars, which are sufficiently funky that they kinda cross over a bit) and with my bosses and also the team I manage in the office too, it could all go horribly wrong.

I slipped the shoes on in the car and made the decision to just go with it and walked into the station and onto my train.  Too late to back out now.  I did think about it, but the doors closed and that was that, I was committed to a day in girls shoes and socks.

Walking out of the station and to the office drew plenty of quick glances - I think sometimes people notice, but don't really understand what they just saw until a few moments later.  People walking behind me must get longer to think about it, but noone has ever said anything.

In the office I kinda just got on with my job, even chatted to the sales director quite happily for a bit about a recent project - not a big deal.  Until I looked down at my feet and panicked slightly!

Girls shoes!

I survived the day okay and took myself off home.  One girl on the station platform noticed and looked at me directly in the eyes for some time as if she was trying to suss me out, but I'm cool with it and she kinda shrugged and went on her way without saying anything.  Sometimes I wish girls would say something though!!

Back in the carpark at the station I switched shoes - sad that I had to take them off to go home.  I love these shoes, there about as girly as I can get away with in public I think.

shopping

I had a little free time so I decided to run some errands - in, of course, girls shoes - what else!

First - I went to the supermarket - it was after work, so pretty busy and I had chosen to wear the 'Amanda' style mary janes with some blue stripy socks - very obvious!

I was a little worried I might bump into someone I knew, but no, I was lucky - is it wise to run such a gauntlet every time?  I suppose I'll only know when I meet someone close to me when I'm dolled up in a dress or something ;)

Anyway - nobody noticed me, despite the glaringly non manly footwear.  I am going to wear them into work tomorrow as well, just because I can!

I took a little video on my way back through the car park - forgive the quality, youtube seems to mangle all my iphone vids and make them a lot grainer than they really are

Intermission

I'm got a week long trip ahead where there will be no updates and no shoe wearing - meh!

In the meantime, I've had lots of opportunity to wear my shoes and have been out in them at every opportunity.  I've been wearing the burgundy twin strap Doc's a lot - they're cool shoes and pretty different, but nobody really notices.  Even in the middle of the day at a busy shopping centre, its amazing!

I've worn them day, night, bright, dark, and nobody was any the wiser!

This is from today at the shops :) 

 

Hope you all have a fun week in your girls shoes!!

MJ

All day docs

I wore my black t-bar docs to work on Friday - green stripy socks and everything - it was awesome!  Lots of people noticed them, but nobody really said anything.  As they they are sufficiently androgynous I thought I'd actually draw some attention to them by mentioning socks and stuff, but nobody picked up the bait.  Maybe I really do have to wear the double strap t-bars into work to get a rise!

As I mentioned before, they are a little small, and my feet were cursing me as I had to walk a few miles at lunchtime to pick up something from a friend - d'oh!  By the time I got back I was almost hobbling.  I might have to sell them and find a bigger size - they just aren't wearable for that length of time :(

I had a company function later and I got a few glances from some of the gorgeous girls in the office - but dammit, they didn't say anything either!

One of my colleagues noticed as he kept on looking at my shoes - maybe he wanted some too ;)

As I was kinda busy all day, I only got one unspectacular picture

By the time I got home, my feet were killing me and it took a good few hours for them to relax and get sensation back.  No blisters, but some red marks on my toes in a few places.  I'm so going to have to chop these in for a pair of UK 8's

some me time

Its been a slightly frustrating couple of weeks for shoe wearing - I've just not had the opportunity :(

I went out to get fish and chips and wore the black t-bar Doc's with stripy socks - that was cool, but they are pretty much a gender neutral combination, so that was almost too easy!

Then, after a week of not being able to do anything, I went out shopping yesterday in the brown triple straps which was cool.  I was a bit worried that I might see someone I knew, but then I thought, nah, fuck it.

Hope you like the shoe/sock combination!

In the store:

In the car park in gorgeous sunshine.

I have a company function this week - I am very tempted to wear the back t-bar MJ's and just ride roller coaster - people can love them or hate them - they are part of me now and I don't care!

Saturday at the shops

So, I decided to go the shops in my Docs.  On a Saturday, when it's really busy.  I wasn't expecting to meet anyone I knew, but just in case, I decided to go for a bit of a gamble and wear the black shiny double strap t-bars with purple socks - very alternative and actually damn obvious!  I did get a few looks, from blokes this time - was probably the socks that did it!

Then, on the way home I had to pop into a couple of smaller shops, so I switched shoes and socks for the new burgundy DM's and lacy schoolgirl socks.  Awesome and very difficult to pass off - still, I went for it all the same.  The trick is to not act like there is something wrong.  Brazen it out and nobody really notices, and if they do, your confidence kinda tells them its ok.  Wonderful thing, the human psyche.

Shoe update

So, as I suspected, the new shoes were just out of the box tight.

First up, the black t-bars.

I had the chance to wear the t-bars all day and although the strap is a little tight, they are perfectly fine and comfy to wear and look very cool - a cross between normal DM's and Mary Janes.  With these socks, they're definitely on the girly side.  That said, I wore them all day in the office at work and nobody said a thing.  I'm pretty sure I could get away with these in most settings.

I took the time to wander out for lunch and do some shopping.  It was very satisfying to walk about in girls shoes with girls socks on.  I did get a few looks, but they're pretty discrete and nobody really noticed.  They're more obvious when I'm walking - thats when some people do spot them.

Second up, the burgundy twin straps

I had a go in the burgundy ones in the office too - they're much less discrete and really unmistakably feminine - no bloke really wears red shoes, especially with purple stripy socks!  But nobody said anything, I doubt if they even noticed.  I snapped a few cheeky photos whilst noone was looking.

Now these are some shoes are could get really out there in.  I kinda figured I'd be better off waiting for a better location where I didn't know anyone and took them off pretty quickly as I don't want people at work to get too clued up.  They're a bit tight on the right foot, but they're brand new, never been worn and I reckon some more outings will have them stretched and comfortable.

Next up, Saturday afternoon shopping.