This is an adapted version of my TINT profile, which I rather liked. So here goes ...
Hello to all of you of you lovely people and thank you for adding me or accepting me as a friend. Just when you think you are over the hill someone says something nice about you - it doesn't stop you being over the hill but it makes rolling down the other side a lot more pleasant!
I am Marianne, a long in the tooth, though sometimes short in the skirt, six foot T Girl (skirt size, 16, shoe size 10). I hope to shrink the skirt size but I am stuck with the shoe size!
I am a keen reader - of novels, histories, biographies, detective stories, pulp and more besides. I love the movies too but have not been to the cinema recently as much as I would have liked for one reason and another. Casablanca still makes me come over all emotional while Some Like it Hot still makes me smile. I adore opera, especially Mozart and The Marriage of Figaro and Cosi Fan Tutte - but when it comes to music my true love is Ska, Rock Steady and early Reggae.
I have been a socialist for almost as long as I have been donning ladies' garments. I am ill disposed to bigotry of any kind and I believe that most people are kind, honest and tolerant.
I have been dressing since I was very young - five or six I think. That makes it a very long time. I am no longer the Sweet Bird of Youth who once brazenly purchased her first pair of high heels from a baffled sales girl in Brixton's Saxone shoe shop and then graced the pavements in them (tripping quite a few times). But I am convinced that you are only as old as the stockings you feel. And mine are all new!
As I suspect happens with many of us, there were gaps in my life as Marianne, times when I wondered whether or not I was really a T Girl at all and other times when the demands of life and work led to dresses being filed under pending (though, thankfully, I always resisted the costly wardrobe purge that sometimes accompany such moments). But who doesn't go through trials, changes and transformations (or at one point Transformation - we've all been there!)? I think I have emerged as a Happy T Girl, though I am sure there's always room for improvement.
The emphasis now, for me at least, is trying to look nice. Trying to look convincing is great and those who pull it off so well are fantastic. But the days when I used to agonise over whether I could pass have long gone. As long as I don't look a mess I am relaxed about being read. Makes for the occasional interesting conversation with a whole range of people and I am struck by the tolerance of many. It puts the intolerance of the few into perspective.
I have a strong sense of fun - and an irrepressible sense of humour - both of which are essential for those situations where a taxi load of people pull up beside you in the road, look at you and either stare or start shouting things at you. A joke is better than an insult and usually means I don't have to try and leg-it while wearing heels.
I have a female partner. We have shared our life together for many years and we are still deeply in love. I told her I dressed about a million years ago (during a train journey for some reason). She not only took it in her stride, she had a positive, let's make it fun approach which helped me towards becoming the person I am today. And she takes the pictures. Well she takes the good ones. I do the self-timer ones - they are the ones where I look as stiff as a board. She also does my hair.
I have come out to more and more people and now find the whole thing less traumatic than I did during those early days of thinking that I was the only one in the world held in the grip of a mysterious compulsion to wear a frock.
Take care everyone and if you have reached here - then like me you are an avid reader!
Marianne
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