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The Little Old Lady That Lived in the Shoe? She lived in the platform of one of Demoniaplatforms's boots.

I've never had any directly negative comments toward me. In almost 20 years of off-and-on wearing skirts and heels in public, I have heard 2 separate giggles, 1 "Oh my God," 1 negative comment behind my back about my gait in heels (which was earned; my ankle was giving me a hard time that day); and 1 woman who was excitedly talking to someone on the phone and mentioned a bit too loudly the "man wearing a skirt" who just passed her. Except for the comment about my walking in heels, I don't consider the rest negative, but rather verbalized surprise.

I get this whenever I have to take an extended break for conformity reasons. It's terribly annoying.

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Mike

Men's button down shirt & skirt (knee length or shorter) OR dress (new addition to my wardrobe choices!) pantyhose with shaved legs heels lower arms still have hair, upper arms, chest, and shoulders do not clean-shaven face with heavy beard growth short hair in a typical male style no makeup In short, I make no attempt to present as female, but as a man who is fully comfortable and more "me" in typically female clothing.

Skirts, pantyhose, the occasional sweater, and I just started into dresses with a fantastic purchase today.

I just got a couple of pairs in last week. The two I got definitely were snug in a 40. They're manageable, though, and they feel like they'll loosen up a bit over time.

5'9" to 5'10", depending on the day.

But, that is neither here or there when it comes to being "accepted" or not. Because to most of our members being "accepted is being able to wear anything you want to wear without fear of ridicule.

If I understand you correctly from previous posts, you believe that definition of acceptance, as you laid it out above, is not going to happen anytime soon, if at all. I am inclined to agree with that.

Now, I'm confused. Firstly, you don't care about about the issue of acceptance. Yet you go into the general public dressed in women's clothing and wearing your high heels just looking for reaction (like you posted in another thread).....poking your finger into societies eye and then are not willing to wear your outfits to work? Color me confused. Do you really cross dress in public for real?

If it makes you feel any better, I recognize it's a contradictory mess. I'm willing to poke my finger in society's eye, but not at the expense of feeding my family. I also recognize that, in the act of poking my finger in society's eye, I enjoy most interactions, including both those where people do not react at all, and those where people react by pretending not to notice. That's all the "acceptance" I believe I can reasonably expect. Were I more willing to push the envelope on the acceptance I don't otherwise care about (i.e., at work), I suspect I would find that it wouldn't be an issue there either, but I don't know that, and I'm not interested in the consequences of being wrong. Like I said, I recognize that I'm part of the "acceptance" problem by simultaneously caring and not caring.

I'm a shade under 5'10" barefoot, with small feet for a man: a woman's size 10 US.

When I go out in heels, I go just about anywhere that isn't work. I'll run most errands, get something to eat, go shopping, and so on. When I worked closer to home, I would even go into work after hours in a skirt and heels from time to time, though that was a pretty big risk in my book. I don't think I would do that now. My heels are either 4"+ pumps or high-heeled loafers, depending on my mood. I always wear them with skirts and pantyhose, and either a men's button-down shirt, polo shirt, or sweater of some kind.

I think that all of us who wear high heels in public have all gotten "good comments" as you put it. But I would have to say the positive has always outweighed the negative. The more you wear high heels in public, the more you base overall total reactions and comments received.

The positives absolutely outweigh the negatives, but the zeroes outweigh both of them combined. Most people just do not notice, in my experience, which is somewhat surprising to me as I only wear heels with skirts.

The thing that strike's me as funny as this guy is a year or 2 older than me and is working his way through school to be an attorney. So you would think someone like that would be a little more mature!

You obviously haven't met many attorneys. We're an immature lot.

While there are quite a few members that are accustomed to dressing and wearing items of feminine clothing as parts of their normal, everyday costumes, including various styles of high heel pumps and boots (include me amongst these), even their comments/recitations of their experiences in public while wearing these items, retain a hint of "butterflies" they've not quite gotten over. As such, they're always acutely aware of "reaction/non-reaction" their appearances provoke. Which, in my opinion, we'll never completely erase.

I don't know that being acutely aware of the reaction, or lack thereof, necessarily means anything for "acceptance." Beautiful women who dress provocatively know exactly what they're doing, and gauge the reactions they do or do not get based on their appearance all the time. That has little bearing on the "acceptance" of their fashion choices. Obviously a man in heels or a skirt is well outside the norm for men generally, but that fact alone neither means that acceptance is never forthcoming on any level nor that the man wearing a skirt and heels publicly has any "butterflies" about doing so. For my part, when I'm out in public in a skirt and heels, I observe people's reactions because I love the people-watching aspect of their reactions, not because I'm remotely concerned about what any one of them thinks of me.

We have here many discussions about acceptance by society and that this is

still a long way off. Let us for a moment assume that there would be full

acceptance. What percentage of the male population would go around in what

we call free style fashion? Of course it depends on how you define

acceptance. Would it be tolerating or would it be embracing?

Let us for now not be too selective.

We know that a certain percentage of the male population likes at least some

items of `other shelves clothes', among which shoes are an important item.

What would be a realistic percentage of people wearing such shoes, possibly

with high heels, in the streets? What would this be for other items of clothing?

Or in other words, will we always be one out of many thousands, or would it be

one out of ten, or what?

Y.

I'd assume it would be "tolerating," but I don't really care. The single biggest acceptance issues generally are: (1) at home, and (2) at work. I think we don't know what our numbers really are because most of us have some problem (real or perceived) with at least one of those two issues. I think I'm "out there" to a large extent, but I don't take any chances with my fashion choices when it comes to my job. Maybe I could; I just don't know, but I'm not inclined to test what level of acceptance, if any, I would find today. I guess, in a fundamental sense, I am part of the problem.

Mostly pumps for me, and always with a skirt.

I wear heels whenever I am able to wear skirts, whether I'm home or in public.

I wear both block-heeled loafers and stiletto-heeled pumps, both with skirts.

I have been wearing heels outside off and on since high school, so while this site didn't give me the courage to do so, it's always a great thing to know that there are others out there who like skirts and heels as I do, and that they are out there living thelr lives as well.

Well, after reading some of the great advise given too me here i chose to try this look. It's the same izod skirt ( I love this skirt to death), Same black hose, and same payless MJ's, The only thing I did was add a black men's dress shirt. It's hard to see in the picture's that I took but the mat is kind of like a satin look not too shiny not too dull! I have a few other shirt's. It's hard for me when it come's to dress shirt's cause I really don't get much time to dress up mainly cause I work so much! So here is a diffrent set of picture's tell me how this look's. Dressing like this is all new to me! I am trying to be able to mix both style's!

I agree with the others; this one is a lot better.

I voted for more feminine, but I don't think that captures what I try to achieve. "Man in heels" doesn't quite do it, either, though. I present as a man in a skirt, pantyhose, and heels, which doesn't fit either option cleanly.

I am 34, which means that I have worn heels for well over half my life by now. Cool.

I absolutely love pantyhose and skirts. I really like certain dresses as well, but I'm not nearly as comfortable with how dresses look on me as I am with how skirts look on me right now, so I don't wear them. With time, and a lot of work on my body, I will eventually like the way dresses look on me, so I'll start wearing those out and about as well.