6 months post op. But for a year and a half now, i have fallen in love with shopping. Irony, even as a kid/teen and young adult, I also loved mostly window shopping, but because of my upbringing and indoctrination of society, I suppressed my feminine side, but shopped for guy things. The mall was my favorite place to go. But now that I am out, I am far more into dress shopping, although it can be a royal pain as far a finding the right pattern and size. 

But today, I hit my jackpot. I have been hunting for a Jackie O style box dress with the faux pockets with buttons, and today I found one in the right size. So friggen happy.

I gotta ask...how long is your hair and how are you wearing it?

Congrats on the dress find, btw.

(May 16, 2026 at 3:59 pm)Jackie Wrote: 6 months post op. But for a year and a half now, i have fallen in love with shopping. Irony, even as a kid/teen and young adult, I also loved mostly window shopping, but because of my upbringing and indoctrination of society, I suppressed my feminine side, but shopped for guy things. The mall was my favorite place to go. But now that I am out, I am far more into dress shopping, although it can be a royal pain as far a finding the right pattern and size. 

But today, I hit my jackpot. I have been hunting for a Jackie O style box dress with the faux pockets with buttons, and today I found one in the right size. So friggen happy.

Has your transition affected your poetry in any way? Not being snarky, just wondering if it has given you a different viewpoint on things.

Boru

Not comparable, I understand, but I used to love shopping for girl's clothes. The fashion is just so much better.

I'm not even a clothes guy but I have had my moments of envy regarding the huge variety (compared to men) of women's fashion. Maybe I would be more interested in the subject if I had been female.

I'm a bit turned off by people being judged by adherence to fashion trends. I vividly remember my experience in middle school where I was ridiculed for not wearing bell-bottom pants. I wasn't wearing them because my parents were of below-average wealth. I wore what I had; what they could afford. I personally couldn't have cared less. Several years later, I would have been ridiculed for wearing bell bottoms because they had gone out of fashion.

That's another thing that would make me more interested in clothes: Respect for individuality.

(May 16, 2026 at 11:42 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: I'm not even a clothes guy but I have had my moments of envy regarding the huge variety (compared to men) of women's fashion. Maybe I would be more interested in the subject if I had been female.

I'm a bit turned off by people being judged by adherence to fashion trends. I vividly remember my experience in middle school where I was ridiculed for not wearing bell-bottom pants. I wasn't wearing them because my parents were of below-average wealth. I wore what I had; what they could afford. I personally couldn't have cared less. Several years later, I would have been ridiculed for wearing bell bottoms because they had gone out of fashion.

That's another thing that would make me more interested in clothes: Respect for individuality.

IKR? You wear lederhosen and an aloha shirt to ONE funeral, and that's all people can talk about for a fecking month.

Boru

Clothes-wise, the only parallel I can imagine applying to myself is finding the same design of a T-shirt I used to own that's in my current size. Last week, I found (on Aliexpress) a resurrected version of an Aqua Teen Hunger Force shirt I got when I was a teen. And it's available in a size that actually fits me now.


I'm always on the search for a few others, like:
* Syd Barrett 1946-2006 Shine on You Crazy Diamond
* A better quality version of my Oswald Band Final Concert shirt
* The Unforgivable shirt.