Wednesday, April 26, 2017

See You / See Me in New Shoes Soon

Saturday, I will attend and present at the Transgender Lives conference.

My presentation, "Makeup Basics for Trans Females," runs from 9:30 to 10:30 AM, but I plan to be at the conference throughout the day.

If you attend the conference, I hope we can meet up person-to-person and have a girl talk. You can't miss me ― I will be the tall blond asking strangers to take my photo!


Sunday morning, when I was getting dressed, I was searching through my shoe boxes trying to find a specific pair of high heel pumps when I came across a pair of shoes that I had forgotten that I had purchased! Not only had I forgotten about buying them, but I had never worn them ― they were brand new, mint in the box.

I have a lot of shoe boxes in my closet and I wondered how many other lost soles I owned. So Monday evening, I removed all the shoe boxes from the closet and took inventory. Turns out there were six more pairs of forgotten shoes, never worn, brand new, mint in the box.

Then I decided to organize what I owned. Soon there were stacks of shoe boxes with each stack representing a specific style...  flats, wedges, medium heel pumps, high heel pumps, Mary-Janes, sling-backs, T-straps, boots, booties, etc.

Before I moved the collection back in my closet, I knew that some shoes had to go. There was one pair that was in shabby shape, so it went in the trash. And I knew there were others that were bad fits, but I was not sure which of my older shoes fell in that category, so I removed my socks, slipped on a pair of knee-highs and began trying on shoes.

Turned out that seven pairs were bad fits. I expected more, but surprisingly about a half dozen pairs that were troublesome in the past now fit comfortably! I assume that their improved fit was due to my weight loss this past winter.

As a result, I only had seven pairs to deposit in the Goodwill box at work and have six "new" pairs to wear during future girl-time... like this Saturday!





Source: Bluefly
I love this outfit, but its presentation is a pet peeve of mine. Why do stores lop off the top of a model's head? Do they think that a pretty face detracts from what the model is wearing? In my opinion, it's just the opposite; a pretty face completes the picture and makes the whole presentation more attractive. Sadly, more and more stores are doing this. Yuck! (Source: Bluefly)





Veit Alex
Veit Alex, male womenswear model

5 comments:

  1. As to the "Femulatee" question: I wonder if it might be they have to pay the model more if they show her face?

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    1. That is my understanding of the reason too. But I agree with Stana, I don't like it.

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    2. This from Dan: https://tinyurl.com/kgsgqlx

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  2. Dear Stana,

    Perhaps you can mark the outside of each shoe box with a standard coding system like this:


    Style: Closed Toe 3" Pump

    Size: 10-1/2

    Color: Beige

    Bought: 11/21/2014, Payless in Whatever City, $39.99

    Worn On: (list dates you wore, with "NEVER" being the first entry, followed by each date worn ... this will solve the NEVER worn issue, and let you see the wearing history of each pair)

    Notes: (for example) Bought in a BOGO sale -or- Hurts after 2 hours of lots of standing -or- used to be tight, but fit perfectly now -etc-


    Love,


    Sheila

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