Shoes - Flowery Sandals

Shoes First–Bass Ackward

Getting dressed has always been a pretty consistent process in my life.

Depending on the affair, choose the outfit, pick out a pair of shoes that match in both style and color, and off you go.

Well, not today.

I decided, based on a whim, that I wanted to wear a certain pair of shoes: my wedgie beige sandals with flowers on top.

It was my mood.

I wanted shoes with whimsy, and I wanted to show off my new pedicure.

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mirror

Mirror

16 of 19 © 2011 Connie Tsang; model: Janie Black
Rearview Mirror

“When I wake up in the morning, it’s always an interesting thing for me because I have a big mirror beside my bed, so when I open my eyes, sometimes I see a guy, and sometimes I see a girl. It’s a very strange thing, you know?” – Claire Black (Janie)

Out of Body Experience

One of the reasons I sometimes doubt the authenticity of my feminine side is that I find myself almost with a feeling that I am observing myself.

I have many things to remember to do differently in order to be the woman I imagine myself to be, and there is a sort of internal dialogue going on sometimes as I evaluate myself.

That doesn’t seem natural and so I start to get a sinking feeling that if it takes so much effort, it may just be that I am putting the whole thing on. I start wondering whether it is simply an exercise in self-deception.

But, I probably should cut myself a little slack here.

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Gender Divide

After some time as a guy, it has become a bit easier to notice some of the differences in the way being a woman makes me feel.Spa Girl - Gender Female

Long gone are the days when I would dress to turn myself on. Was a time, I would look in the mirror and see a hottie (my opinion only) staring back at me, and that was enough.

These days, I dress appropriately to the task of meeting and attracting others – friends acquaintances and others – and functioning in society while expressing my own personal style.

As I have been flittering through my home, I realize that being female means being aware – of oneself, of one’s environment and of others.

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understanding

Understanding

15 of 19 © 2011 Connie Tsang; model: Janie Black
understanding

“One of the things about doing this is I just have gotten a completely different appreciation of what women do, what women are, what they go through, all of those things. If I forgot my phone in the car, or I have to feed the meter or something, running out to my car in heels is different than running out to my car not in heels, y’know?” – Claire Black (Janie)