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I rarely sew men fashions but lately it's been on my mind...
Lukas gladly (yes, gladly I say) accepted to be my model today.
Doll is 'Style Strategy' Lukas Maverick from 2009.
Fashion designed and made by me.
Date night, and no skirt is the right skirt.
Walls and carpet: patterned paper
Mirror: reflective paper
Chair: foam crafting cube, cut down
Skirts: pencil crayon shavings
170/365 (3,853)
One for the 365 treasure hunt, number 18 Brush. This was at Standen (National Trust).
On Wednesday 14 June, we had an impromtu gathering of the neighbours, as we'd all lost our electricity. Then on Monday 19 June, we had another impromtu gathering of the neighbours, as we'd all lost our internet the previous evening. Intitially BT deniged their was a problem, but after lots of phone calls, they admitted their was a problem. They then said it would be 2-3 days before an engineer could take a look, but we were all back on line by 36 hours .... just wondering which will be the third utility we all loose, as everthing goes in 3's!
Mersey Ferries Seacombe Ferry Terminal on reopening day – October 17, 2022. The terminal had been closed for refurbishment since November 2020.
The building is Grade II listed
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Seacombe Ferry and omnibus terminus was constructed between 1930-3 to designed by L St G Wilkinson, the Wallasey Borough Surveyor for the municipally owned Wallasey Ferries and Corporation Motors. These were incorporated into the Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive (MPTE) in 1969 with the combined Birkenhead and Wallasey Ferries being rebranded as Mersey Ferries. Following bus deregulation The MPTE became Merseytravel.
Comprises brick with Portland stone dressings; tiled roofs. Two ranges, one of a single story parallel to the Mersey containing booking and entrance halls, the other returning, of two storeys, containing waiting rooms, workshops and offices which are now being repurpsed as the Eureka Science attraction due to open in 2023.
Both ranges connected by a loggia (defining two sides of a courtyard bus station), supported by paired Doric columns. The riverside range with deep hipped roof and monumental central clock tower, the latter slightly tapering to upper courses, the clock faces over ventilation slits contained within superordinate arches, the stepped plinth, with stripped classical detailing, of stone; all this over a broken pedimented projecting entrance block (all stone) with tall round-headed arch.
Loggia of 3-bays to either side with clerestory windows containing iron chevron- patterned glazing bars. The return range of eleven bays, similarly fenestrated to both ground and 1st floors, with doors treated in the same manner. Outer bays with overhanging eaves; central bays with stepped parapets surmounted by urns and central flagstaff over municipal coat of arms.
Contemporary fittings include bronze lamps. Interior: hall with massive unadorned round-headed arches of three orders (to front range); tie-rod roof; part-glazed.
Several contemporary features include ticket offices with chevron and other art-deco style glazing patterns. A fine restrained composition in the simplified classical style popular at the time. Historical note: the first commercial shore- based Radar station in the world for the navigation of ships was installed at the Seacombe Terminal buildings in 1947.
(Notes from Historic England)
Paula looks stunning in a few lovely and varied looks selected for her during her makeover & Photoshoot. Such a lovely girl!
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Continuing my theme of posting my early cross-dressing efforts between the period of November 2000 and December 2003 I am posting another picture from my first few efforts at learning how to cross-dress as a woman.
Unlike in my younger years by the time I emerged from the closet and finally gave in to my desire to dress as a woman the Internet had arrived. I naturally began to use it for research about my transvestism as I still had big issues with my wanting to dress as a female back then.
In the course of my research I came across pictures of transvestites that made my jaw drop and I recall being awestruck. How could they have cleavage? How could they have a flat genital area? How could they have such female looking eyebrows? I was amazed by a great many of the transformations I saw. Then, something I was disturbed by, I knew these women were really men but I found them attractive! I eventually came to realise this was testament to their skills in creating a female appearance. Despite knowing they were men they did such a fantastic job of looking female I could only see them as women. As much as it was disturbing for me as an heterosexual male it was also incredibly inspiring. My ambitions to emulate their achievements gathered momentum.
I soon learned on the Internet the techniques for the cleavage and flat genitals and realised if one wanted a female eyebrow shape then the reality was you had to commit yourself to actually plucking them into a thinner more shaped brow. This is something one cannot hide so initially I was nervous and only did token amounts of plucking and shaping. These days I prefer a more defined shaped eyebrow and now have enough confidence to keep my eyebrows regularly plucked.
When I discovered that if one shaved their chest and used adhesive tape and shades of blusher they could create cleavage I was so excited I just gad to try it for myself. I did find it very uncomfortable and over a period of time it was physically painful but the illusion of having cleavage made me giddy with excitement. Once I wore a bra, fitted my breast forms and combined that with the taped up chest and make-up shading I was totally thrilled with the result.
This photo, in fact it is actually a still frame from a DV video camera taken in December 2000 as I did not have a stills camera back then and digital cameras were very new to the market in that period. I would video myself and capture a still frame on my computer using a computer card I had bought precisely for this purpose. The images are very low resolution as a result but at the time it gave me the privacy I needed to get stills of myself cross-dressed. I needed to chart my progress and see how I was doing with my explorations into transvestism.
I can see I was very inexperienced as the cleavage is a not too subtly shaded in the picture and I find my choice of wig back then well…interesting…but this was quite a powerful moment for me on an emotional level. I admit I was terrified and elated at the same time but after two decades of suppression dressing up and taking this picture was quite a moment!
I think it fair to say I was thrilled with how I felt that evening, never as a man had imagined I would actually wear make-up, put on lots of mascara and lipstick, a wig, have cleavage, the sensation of breasts, a flat female looking genital area, shaved chest and legs, wear a skirt and high heels and generally lose myself in feeling girlie…it was wonderful, absolutely an amazing moment in my life to do this. Why oh why had I suppressed it for so long? All those wasted years!
I have decided to produce a video documentary this year about my being a transvestite, the time has arrived where I need to move my cross-dressing to a new level and have new experiences. For fifteen years I have had little confidence or belief in my abilities to look like a woman. Posting on Flickr and reading the comments has had an effect upon me plus the personal support and encouragement from certain wonderful ladies. I now owe the current Helene to these ladies and to all of you who have written such kind and complimentary words about my efforts to look like a woman.
I genuinely felt I failed in my efforts and looked hopeless but I am now having pause for thought about this. So many kind people tell me I can look like a woman that I realise the thing that is holding me back is me, I am my own stumbling block.
Something is changing within me and it fills me with great excitement for the future. I feel I now need to actually set free Helene and when I dress as her I need to be her. Part of me desires to be a woman, I am a transvestite but I do have an element of the transsexual that adds to my desire to pass as a female. I think rather than blanking things I should utilise them to enable me to more complete as a person. This means freeing Helene now and again but making the experience more fulfilling rather than being frightened in private yet emotionally delighted I have become a (temporary) woman. The time to step onto a new path is here.
Making a video documentary is something I have wanted to do for several years now but of course just sitting in a room or shooting pointless shots, like my driving video, is all a bit dull and aimless. I have a story of my own and how it has influenced and shaped my adult life and I know how elated I feel as Helene. There are issues that troubled me I have got over and others that still persist. I now want to open up about this and make a record of it. Making the video will be a rewarding experience for me though I suspect I am being highly self indulgent and it is probably a vanity project.
It would be fantastic to meet up with other transvestites on the video and hear their own experiences and motivations, we are after all quite a diverse social group and yet most of us have to keep our gentle desire a secret in our lives. At times I could weep.
Thank you to you all you have changed my self perception, my belief and encouraged new ambitions for my female alter-ego. I feel enthused and more convinced about my appearance. You are all lovely people.
Helene x
Sometimes I wish I could enlarge my old doll-clothes so I could wear them for real.. Cause some of them actually look pretty damn good!
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"6 Times", a sculptural project by the celebrated British artist Antony Gormley and commissioned by the National Galleries of Scotland, comprises six life-size figures positioned between the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the sea.
Sir Antony Mark David Gormley, OBE (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor. His best known works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead in the North of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998, Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool, and Event Horizon, a multi-part site installation which premiered in London in 2007, around Madison Square in New York City, in 2010 and in São Paulo, in 2012.
Great Egret (Ardea alba)
Another shot of this Great Egret all dressed up in his finest feathers putting on that fabulous display in an effort to attract a mate.
Images by Tigs Macallan for sneak peek of my home on design sponge:
www.designsponge.com/2012/02/sneak-peek-paula-mills-famil...
In a few weeks time I've volunteered to work at a Bar staffed entirely by T-girls. Its at an Expo and will be in a safe, friendly and open minded environment and should be alot of fun. I'll be waiting tables, serving drinks and engaging with the Public,
The theme is Black & White and while it would be acceptable to wear black work trousers and white blouse I'd quite like to dress up a little as its a fun, and a bit of a raunchy 'high glamour' event. Quite a bit of time will be interfacing with folk outside our sphere and no doubt answering zillions of questions.
Anyway I want to look good, look confident, have fun, and look approachable.
If you were in my *shoes which outfit would you opt for or if I was serving you which outfit would you prefer to see ?
Which outfit is most worthy of a tip ?
I can't decide, one of the outfits is very 'me' and the other is very fun and likely to create the biggest splash.
* denotes footwear will undoubtedly be replaced by flats at some point.
Skin: Amore Chestnut - MOJO
Hairbase: Unbra
Hairpiece: Maimai
Eye makeup: Chelle
Necklace: Maxi Gossamer
Outfift: Gizza
I spent the last two days in Derbyshire and got the opportunity to see the Well Dressing in Buxton. I imagine some english people as well as people from other countries will be unfamiliar with this practice . Between May and September all the villages and small towns in Derbyshire will display a well dressing usually on a fixed timetable . The Buxton dressing celebrates the centenary of women suffrage .
A bit of info
Well dressing, also known as well flowering, is a tradition practised in some parts of rural England in which wells, springs and other water sources are decorated with designs created from flower petals. The custom is most closely associated with the Peak District of Derbyshire and Staffordshire].The custom of well dressing in its present form probably began in the late 18th century, and evolved from "the more widespread, but less picturesque" decoration of wells with ribbons and simple floral garlands.
Wooden frames are constructed and covered with clay, mixed with water and salt. A design is sketched on paper, often of a religious theme, and this is traced onto the clay. The picture is then filled in with natural materials, predominantly flower petals and mosses, but also beans, seeds and small cones. Each group uses its own technique, and can chose the subject for the year
While I was in Derbyshire it all started to get very interesting . On a positive note at least we lost to most ineffectual Foreign Secretary Britain has had since the nineteen thirties . Whose crass stupidity would regularly cause embarrassment to the country in normal times he would have been sacked. The only important thing to Boris was feeding his own vanity and ego . He completely lacked principals and any sense of morality unlike Mr David Davis, and he would lie as easily as he would breathe . Clowns belong in the circus not holding high offices of state
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"girlsjustwanahavefun", with the black satin evening dress, beautiful full skirt that flows round the legs and with a boned bodice to hold all the bumps in. Makeup and hair by Caroline.