Walk Tall, Walk Straight, and Look the World Right in the Eye

• Posted by Trines x x November 7, 2014 #Public  #style tips  #how to walk  #blending in  #naturalistic  2,653 views
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  "Walk tall, walk straight, and look the world right in the eye!"

  My views on style and deportment for trannies

   

   

  It should be mandatory for ALL trannies to undergo and successfully pass a style and deportment course before being allowed out in public and the first line of Val Doonican's song should be the earworm for all of us!

   

  I've been driven to write this blog after the sight the other day in Milton Keynes of a group of five trannies who came creeping into New Look. Between them they displayed every bad practice possible, presented themselves very poorly as would-be women and absolutely shrieked "TRANNIE" to anyone just briefly glancing their way. This isn't new of course, but in these days of the internet where all manner of good advice is available and when cheap, stylish clothes are available everywhere, there's no reason whatsoever for not making a better job of it.

   

  There are no excuses for being unfashionably or dowdily dressed paired with clashing accessories, badly applied make-up of inappropriate or out of fashion colours, poor posture and bearing, or walking along like a coalman bearing a hundredweight sack of nutty slack across his back.

   

  When meeting other trannies in social groups or at night clubs like Pink Punters then anything goes but when going out in public in the daytime I consider it actually rude and offensive to everyone else not to make the best possible job of presenting ourselves as women. Except for the purely exhibitionist amongst us (hopefully few) who enjoy unsettling people, surely the aim is to fit in as unnoticeably as possible? Yes, most of us will still be read if looked at carefully but Manners Always Makyth the (Wo)man!

   

  So here are a few of my tips which I'm sure some will find fault with but if this piece starts a debate then this can only be for the good.

   

  Bearing & Deportment.

   

  To my mind this is the most important aspect. Good posture, realistic body movement and walk, and good eye contact always paired with a smile, all will substantially hide deficiencies in the other departments. Many trannies fall down badly in this area. Recently I saw a really attractive young Tgirl in long, high-heeled boots , mini-skirt (she had great legs), nice top, and good make-up and wig. She was a picture and eminently passable – until she moved! She walked and moved her arms just like a bloke which completely destroyed the whole illusion.

   

  Paragraphs 4 & 5 are critical but do read the earlier ones first.

   

  1. Straighten your back! Don't stoop to make yourself appear less tall; it puts years on you and makes you look as if you have severe curvature of the spine. There are plenty of tall real girls about these days and most of them don’t stoop. Be proud of who you are, otherwise why go out at all?

   

  2. Square your shoulders! Apart from giving a better posture, this helps make your expensively filled bust slightly more prominent without puffing your chest out, which you should never do. But don’t raise your shoulders, keep them low.

   

  3. Hold your head up! This helps making the greater depth of your shoulders less apparent and also helps a long wig to fall better down your back without curving out and around your shoulder blades which can make you look barrel-chested.

   

  4. Walk like a woman! This is clearly not easy for many. The biggest factor in the difference between the way a man and a woman walks is the construction of the hips and the way they ‘work’. When a man walks both his hips either stay the same level when his legs go forward or, more usually, the hip above the leg that is going forward actually drops a bit so that it is slightly lower than the other one. The rest of his body reacts to this giving overall his ‘manly’ walk.

   

  Because of her wider hips and the way her femurs are jointed, a woman’s hip above the leg that is going forward actually rises ever so slightly and the other hip therefore drops just a little as a result. So the rest of her body reacts completely differently than in a man: her body sways in the characteristically feminine way and her bottom automatically wiggles nicely!

   

  If you want to walk more like a woman then you must practice this technique until you can do it without thinking. It’s not easy! Rehearse lots at home. You may find it easier to exaggerate the hip rise at first but when you do it for real it must only be slight otherwise you’ll just look stupid. I’ve been walking like this for years and it is now entirely natural, so much so I catch myself doing it when out in man-drag – so be careful! Remember to keep the legs fairly straight, don’t high-step like a show pony. Don’t cross your leading leg over in front of the trailing leg unless you want to stumble or trip. You can bring it in just a little though, perhaps to the centre line of your body but no further.

   

  If you’re tall and wear flattish shoes feel free to use long strides, tall women do. Obviously you’ll need to shorten them if you are on high heels but take the longest pace you comfortably can; don’t totter along like a Chinese woman with broken and bound feet.

   

  5. Stay loose! Keeping the rest of your body relatively limp (although straight remember?) and your arms hanging loose down by your sides will, if you are using your hips properly as just described, result in your upper body swaying slightly and realistically and your arms swinging slightly in opposition to your legs. Don’t intentionally swing your arms, which most men do, just let the swing occur naturally. If they don’t swing, don’t worry.

   

  6. Look happy! Have a happy countenance at all times and if someone looks at you, don’t ignore them, give them a big smile; more often than not you’ll get a nice smile back.

   

  
  MAKE-UP

   

  Most women when out and about during the day wear little or no make-up. Perhaps a very light foundation such as a BB cream, a wipe of mascara and a touch of lippy but sometimes not even that. We on the other hand have to be more heavy handed to cover our beard shadow and awful complexions but it is important to end up looking as if we’ve only a little make-up on. It is possible but not easy.

   

  1 Foundation

   

  If you’re not sure what foundation colour suits you best go to Boots, whether you’re dressed or not, and ask one of the girls for a skin/foundation test. They’ll be more than happy to do so and give you the shades of foundation and lipstick that will suit you best. The other week I was in Boots en femme and a girl came up and asked if she could do me. When I asked why, was I that bad she said “ No. It’s because I’ve never done someone like you before”! As it happens my make-up was spot on!

   

  I use a BB cream as a moisturiser. After a few minutes the skin has absorbed the cream leaving my skin slightly coloured. This means I need less foundation to complete the job. I use L’Oreal’s mineral powder foundation which goes on beautifully leaving a quite flawless finish (doesn’t remove my wrinkles though!). You can also put it on quite thickly over the beard area without it looking thick.

   

  2. Eyes.

   

  Keep these very restrained. If you have bushy eyebrows do try and tweeze them just a little to give a bit of shape but always on the underside, never the top. Use mid or light brown or grey pencil, never black or very dark brown.

   

  Avoid vivid eye shadows, especially greens and blues; consider using the more neutral shades of light browns & beiges. This is for day time remember. For eyeliner I prefer to use mid brown or grey pencil or a dark eye shadow powder with a thin brush. Liquid eyeliners are too stark for me at my age.

   

  False lashes are good but get the thinner, shorter ‘natural’ ones not the road-sweeping brushes. Brown is best but there’s not many about.

   

  3. Lipsticks. Avoid vivid, bright colours. I think the more restrained and rather more natural looking reddy-browns or dark, dusky pinks are much better in the day. Stay within your lip lines and don’t do the corners of your mouth, otherwise you can end up looking like a panto dame or the Joker. If you are particularly thin lipped use a lip plumper and perhaps just go the tiniest bit over the lip line, but infinitesimally so. I use a lip liner pencil to get a symmetrical outline. I also find this helps stop lipstick bleeding into the surrounding wrinkles. Keep the amount of lipstick used to a minimum, just enough to colour the lips; a good lip brush is better than using the stick direct. Leave thick lippy and gloss for night-time.

   

  4. Facial contouring. This is quite a skilful art used to try to alter the architecture of the face eg making a square jaw look less so, a fat face slimmer, a broad nose narrower etc. If you want to explore this surf the web for some tutorials. I’ll just mention blushers here. A little touch of blush on the cheekbone and spreading back towards the temple is quite in order but use it very sparingly indeed and blend in the edges well. All you need is the barest hint of colour. I avoid the strong pinks as I don’t want to look like a china doll; instead I go for the darker rosy beiges.

   

  To illustrate that I practise what I preach here are two photographs taken a couple of weeks ago. They were taken at 11pm after I had been out all day since 8am. I was going to be out and about all day in public so I tried to make it as understated and naturalistic as possible. The only touch up was to my lipstick after a meal. My beard sprouts furiously when under make up and after some 16 hours it’s growing through so my chin looks rather rough.

   

  
  

   

   

  CLOTHES

   

  Don’t join the tranny granny brigade!

   

  Please don’t wear clothes that look as if they were donated to Oxfam after the death of a 95 year old. Study women of your age in the street: what are they wearing, what are they mixing and matching, how are they accessorising, how are they walking. You will buy clothes that reflect your personality but do remember you are aiming to blend in. And remember, you don’t have to wear a dress or skirt to be feminine; you can look and feel stunning in jeggings & super-skinnies.

   

  Be fashionable and BE YOUNG! Older women nowadays are not frightened of wearing ‘young’ clothes and neither should you be, as long as you’re not too extreme. Mini skirts are out! Some weeks ago I very tentatively went out wearing absolutely skin-tight leather-look fronted jegging with zips everywhere, tight-waisted fuscia top over my corseted 32” waist, a long-tailed shrug (the one in the photos above) tightly knotted under my 46” tits and 4 ¾” heeled strappy sandals. It may be pertinent for you to know I am 6’ 3” and only a year and a bit away from 70! God, I felt good but was worried people would regard me as a dead sheep dressed as lamb. Do you know, I got far less looks than I would normally expect wearing an ‘older’ outfit ! Indeed I was complimented by a shop assistant and by my corsetiere (that sounds posh) who wanted to know where the jeggings came from as she wanted them. My daughter also thought I looked really good and she wouldn’t lie.

   

  So the moral seems to be wear what you want but with panache and you’ll succeed.

   

  Most men have wider shoulders and deeper chests than women and thus look top heavy (one of the ‘give aways’). One trick that helps overcome this is always to have darker tops & coats than your trousers and skirts. By optical illusion this helps to minimise the size of your upper body.

   

  
  WIGS

   

  A reasonably natural looking wig is so important; you see so many with ill-fitting wrong-coloured mop heads which is a dead give-away. Avoid plain, bright blonde, black or dark, one colour brunette; they are not natural and never suit an older face. Go for mid-tone blends.

   

  Get a wig with a fair amount of depth of hair to it around the crown and face; this helps to make your face look smaller and, overall, your head look bigger which helps to make you look a little shorter in height.

   

  And put it on properly! Too often I see a tranny whose hairline seems to be only half way up her forehead making her look very strange indeed. If, like me, you haven’t seen your hairline for years and have forgotten where it was, a handy tip someone gave me recently is that the wig hairline should start about four fingers above the bridge of your nose.

   

  For more hints on wigs see my blog https://www.transtastic.com/se4/blogs/7816/1090/bewigged-bothered-bewildered .
  

   

  So that’s it! I had other things to mention but this has taken me far longer than I thought and I’m getting bored with it!

   

  But always remember:-

   

   

  Walk tall !  Walk well !  Walk loose!

   

   

  Be proud of who and what you are.

   

   

  And Smile !