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For me it depends - tall boots (without heels), leggings, tights, skirts, ponchos, knitted coats, long cardigans

I'll be driving the wife to a mall in a bit - cold outside so we'll be "walking indoors" today. I just put on a pair of dark gray leggings (that she bought for me) under a (U.S. Air Force) tartan kilt (that she also bought me). Lucky camper here.

Bill wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2025 6:08 pm I'll be driving the wife to a mall in a bit - cold outside so we'll be "walking indoors" today. I just put on a pair of dark gray leggings (that she bought for me) under a (U.S. Air Force) tartan kilt (that she also bought me). Lucky camper here.

It is great to have a partner who offers that kind of support.

Long skirts and blouses but not both at once. My motto is..."Shirts with skirts and blouses with trousers"

I have been wearing shirts and skirts regularly now for about six months. My wife and I have been everywhere and have had no bad comments or stares, just a few second looks. I prefer colorful prints and colors, and pleats to help with the battle of the bulge. I am not trying to be "enfem", just an old Vermonter living in Florida who prefers to wear skirts.

And what a great and easy place for bright colors & skirts. Glad you are enjoying and finding what most regular skirt wearers have found, some second glances of course, that is natural -- and the world just keeps chugging along! Having somebody with you also seems to help put in people's mind that what they are seeing is ordinary and accepted.

I don’t know if this qualifies as an “item” to wear, but, I’ve experimented from time to time with perfume, currently I’m using Obsession by Calvin Klein, and I’ve liked it, the smell is delightful and it works for me.

JeffB1959 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 03, 2025 8:07 pm I don’t know if this qualifies as an “item” to wear, but, I’ve experimented from time to time with perfume, currently I’m using Obsession by Calvin Klein, and I’ve liked it, the smell is delightful and it works for me.

Jeff; many in the circles I travel in request "scent free" offices and meetings especially as quite a few people have respiratory & medical sensitivities to perfumes. There is also a huge question about their inherent health safety. Below is an excerpt from a Guardian article a few years back; and I've seen more damning reports since then.

"More than 1,200 fragrance chemicals currently in use have been flagged as potential or known “chemicals of concern”, according to a 2018 report from WVE. These include seven carcinogens, 15 chemicals prohibited from use in cosmetics in the EU and others cited in various international warning lists. Endocrine disrupters, which mimic human hormones, are of particular concern to many researchers and advocates, as they can have effects in the tiniest doses."

Just made my second venture out in a cropped T shirt, which although it was gender free in the ?1970s, now seems rather fem-gendered. The first time, I wore it over linen trousers, and got a long stare in Waitrose car park from an older guy. This time, I tried it with a long skirt, and got the kind of semi-covert scrutiny that I guess I give young women quite often. Well, if I can turn heads at my age, I guess that's a positive!

I've seen a few male bellies on display below T shirts, but usually it's because the bulge sticks out so far above the belt that even a standard length T shirt can't cope! It's an incentive to keep the waistline under control!

Myopic Bookworm wrote: ↑Thu Jun 12, 2025 3:33 pm Just made my second venture out in a cropped T shirt, which although it was gender free in the ?1970s, now seems rather fem-gendered. The first time, I wore it over linen trousers, and got a long stare in Waitrose car park from an older guy. This time, I tried it with a long skirt, and got the kind of semi-covert scrutiny that I guess I give young women quite often. Well, if I can turn heads at my age, I guess that's a positive!

I've seen a few male bellies on display below T shirts, but usually it's because the bulge sticks out so far above the belt that even a standard length T shirt can't cope! It's an incentive to keep the waistline under control!

MB its great that you turn scruitiny into a more positive head turner. Sometimes it feels like the aim of MIS is to walk around fully accepted and unnoticed. Nobody is fully accepted. Red hair, too thin, wrong colour etc.
Frankly, having spent most of my existance a walking ghost,.it makes a nice change to be noticed.
Why should a belly hanging below a tee shirt or a thong be more acceptable than a crop top? Body builders were wearing crop tops to show off their abs not so long ago.

I am sure that this has been discussed many times over but I don't think I wear any feminine items. Plenty of who might see me dressed in a dress or a skirt and 5cm clogs or a floppy-brimmed hat might disagree.

What is a feminine item? After two years of skirt wearing, i dont know what that is.

Ballet flats have become a staple for me nearly every day because I find them incredibly comfortable. Leggings when I work out. I occasionally wear skirts and tights (pantyhose), but not as often anymore.