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Title: Some Fashion Prejudices
Post by: Robyn Jodie on May 05, 2017, 02:45:17 AM
Two items of feminine apparel I dislike (even on women) are high heeled shoes [a real nuisance to walk in; I don't care what they "do for" your legs], and nylons / stockings / pantyhose [too fragile and subject to runs].
BUT...if you must wear high heeled shoes, please wear them with nylons / stockings / pantyhose.
Just please, please, PLEASE don't wear them with socks.
Title: Re: Some Fashion Prejudices
Post by: Betty on May 05, 2017, 05:29:09 PM
Unless they're pretty frilly ruffled sissy socks. They go well with high heels with pretty bows.
Title: Re: Some Fashion Prejudices
Post by: sissybaby34 on May 06, 2017, 08:22:59 AM
I have to agree Betty, Mary Janes and frill top socks look great, like this.
Title: Re: Some Fashion Prejudices
Post by: Robyn Jodie on May 06, 2017, 01:02:33 PM
Quote from: Betty on May 05, 2017, 05:29:09 PM
Unless they're pretty frilly ruffled sissy socks. They go well with high heels with pretty bows.
Sorry, but that's exactly what I find least attractive.  But that's just my personal preference/prejudice.  As they say, "Your mileage may vary."

I guess what I find unattractive is the combination of childish socks with adult high heels.  It creeps me out because it makes me think of adults who are "overly fond" of children.  Again, just my personal view.  For those of you who like the combination, more power to you.
Title: Re: Some Fashion Prejudices
Post by: Betty on May 07, 2017, 06:17:46 PM
To me it's pretty feminine frilly stuff, & I like frilly stuff.
Title: Re: Some Fashion Prejudices
Post by: Robyn Jodie on May 08, 2017, 12:14:46 PM
I like frilly stuff, too, including "sissy style" anklets with lace around the cuffs, but -- and this is just my personal opinion / prejudice -- frilly socks go better with classic Mary Jane shoes, nylons / pantyhose go better with high heels.
Title: Re: Some Fashion Prejudices
Post by: patricialacey on April 16, 2019, 09:53:43 AM
In 1972 "glam rock" was in fashion and I was first exposed to platform boots. I had a pair handmade by this old italian cobbler and figured I looked really cool!
the leather was oxblood red with snakeskin trim, triple half-inch platforms (snakeskin-oxblood-snakeskin) so you got an inch&half platform with a 4&1/2inch heel
They set off my afghan coat & loon pants perfectly but god were they uncomfortable!
they were so well made they felt strange if I wore socks of a different thickness than the pair I was wearing when being measured for them.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b&tbm=isch&q=platform+boots&chips=q:platform+boots,g_1:vintage:_mnONKEqzro%3D,g_1:mens:Amx2M3qHmj4%3D&usg=AI4_-kSUVQBqNk_o4OZn9V5LJXkf4UHNIA&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjKpe_x39ThAhUSKBoKHWtyAjYQ4lYILSgC&biw=1024&bih=635&dpr=1#imgrc=_
consequently I no longer wear heels of any description and I'm gonna stick to Mary Janes!
Title: Re: Some Fashion Prejudices
Post by: Robyn Jodie on April 16, 2019, 11:43:33 AM
Platform shoes are another nuisance. Don't care for them, never have.  Oddly, there is a "gangsta" style sort-of platform shoe that my son likes but you'd never catch me wearing...see
https://www.ebay.com/p/Demonia%2DBlack%2DSuede%2D2%2DInch%2DPlatform%2DCreeper%2DShoes%2DMens%2DUnisex%2DV%2Dcreeper%2D502s%2D10/1002494271?
Title: Re: Some Fashion Prejudices
Post by: marybethsanford on April 16, 2019, 12:56:37 PM
I'm definitely down the middle with this.  Never really like heels because I was always hooked on the little girl look but then I discovered the short heeled Mary Jane's and fell in love with those when they hit in the 90's.  Saw a girl with lacy socks and short heavy heeled Mary Jane's followed her like a starving puppy asking her where she got them.  I wore those with my country western dresses when I went to meetings.  Lacy socks of course as Betty noted.... love the frilly.

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Mary Beth

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Title: Re: Some Fashion Prejudices
Post by: Angela M... on April 16, 2019, 08:57:15 PM
Hey marybethhsanford, I love the pic and bought the same ones and I wore them with lace trimmed sock as well. I still have them and the socks as I did not wear them often and only out in public once or twice. My favourite are my Mary Jane's too.
 
Title: Re: Some Fashion Prejudices
Post by: marybethsanford on April 17, 2019, 07:44:59 AM
It was so funny but right after I joined a cross dressing group I became very fashion conscious as most do, desperate to pass or come as close as possible, before coming to the conclusion that was never going to happen.  Once that reality set in I began to enjoy it more and that was thanks to a drag queen who became a very dear friend.  Second thing to happen was driving by a country western wear store and seeing this pink dress with pink petticoats in the window.  Damn near hit a parked car.  The woman and I became very dear friends.  I would joke with other cross dressers when they asked why "country"?  I'd tell them so I could hide the petticoats.  But when you think about it country western was as close as you could get to "little girl" as was legal, right down to the Mary Jane's.  I did wear white boots (see my avatar) and other colored strapped shoes but I so loved those Mary Jane's.  Then there were diapers.  With a full dress and petticoats you could wear just about anything under them...  Oh, God, those were the days.

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Title: Re: Some Fashion Prejudices
Post by: patricialacey on April 17, 2019, 09:09:50 AM
JEEZ that takes me back! those "gangsta" shoes were known as "brothel creepers" back in the late 1950s They were the prefered footwear of the "teddy boy" (google it) as a 6 or 7yo I remember one of my uncles wearing them. Legend has it that they were the original BLUE SUEDE SHOES that Elvis sang about
Title: Re: Some Fashion Prejudices
Post by: Angela M... on April 17, 2019, 01:08:52 PM
Oh marybethsanford I love your pink dress and like you if I had seen it in a window it would have caused me to stop short. I remember seeing the styles on TV but never found a shop near enough for me to explore. I do remember a woman working for me a few years back that was into the Square Dance craze and would attend dances at least once a week. She even asked me to be her partner once but I could not do it or tell her I wanted to wear the dresses. I was her boss and did not want to get into that situation where I could be compromised and she was a hand full most days. I ended up having her transferred to another dept. for my sanity and to give her a second chance to change her ways or be fired. I think my one regret after all the girls clothes I have purchased over the years is that I never got a wonderful petticoat like the pink one in the posted photo. 
Title: Re: Some Fashion Prejudices
Post by: Spankypants2 on May 29, 2019, 11:10:06 PM
This is an interesting thread. I suppose my "turn-offs" have always been foundation garments (like the ones I'd see in my grandmother's room) and garter belts. Sometimes I think the only people wearing garter belts today are crossdressers and hockey players. I never wore them when I was dressed as a girl in my childhood (always anklets), but I did in my hockey playing days).

I think my favorite fashion item as a boy was the "see-through" dress of the 1950s. I had one in yellow similar to the one shown in the photo which I wore around the age of 10-11.
Title: Re: Some Fashion Prejudices
Post by: jeangurl on May 30, 2019, 04:35:19 AM
Spankypants
if you were anything like your Avatar your little girl/boy photos you were/are very pretty :-*
Luv Jeangurl :-[
Title: Re: Some Fashion Prejudices
Post by: Spankypants2 on May 30, 2019, 10:57:54 AM
Thank you! As a boy my mother's friends were always calling me "pretty" or "delicate." Some of this must have carried over into my later years as last year I received a left-handed compliment from a teenage checkout girl. As she totaled up my purchases, she looked me over and finally remarked, "I bet when you were younger you were really HOT!"

My only responses was, "Were?"
Title: Re: Some Fashion Prejudices
Post by: Spankypants2 on June 04, 2019, 12:34:29 AM
And speaking of fashion prejudices, apparently this boy did not approve of the dress Auntie chose for him. (There's no accounting for taste--it looks good to me.)
Title: Re: Some Fashion Prejudices
Post by: gunrunner on June 04, 2019, 07:31:49 AM
OMG, if I keep complementing, will you keep posting these pictures? I really come twice a day to check posts (I'm retired and have the time). I get kinda excited when I see Spankypants has posted, and it is the first post I open. Thank you!
Title: Re: Some Fashion Prejudices
Post by: Spankypants2 on June 07, 2019, 12:52:14 PM
REAL boys wear BLUE plastic pants.
Title: Re: Some Fashion Prejudices
Post by: Spankypants2 on July 03, 2019, 07:41:54 PM
A cute dress for indoor play, but it appears he'd rather be playing baseball.
Title: Re: Some Fashion Prejudices
Post by: babycakes on July 08, 2019, 11:12:05 AM
Excellent pictures Spankypants.  Thanks for the work.  There is a superb Tumblr site that has dozens and dozens of similar pictures, with captions, but I am reluctant to post another site on here in deference to Betty.