Wednesday 1st June 2022, 16:11
Back in my room sitting in the window in the sunshine, squinting at my laptop screen. :-)
Had a lovely day. Walked into Stockton, visited a few charity shops in search of a new hat, didn't find one. Watched the Stockton Flyer again, just as silly the second time. But it's so good to see that something like that exists and is maintained for the amusement of people of all ages and kinds. What is also very nice is that it is allowed to be itself, the plinth in which it rests while not active is just a plain grey stone box with no big signs on it or near it. There is just a discrete plaque on one side saying that it emerges from its plinth at one in the afternoon everyday along with a few words about the designer and the reason it exists.
Also while I was browsing the books in one of the charity shops a woman cam up to me an asked where I got my tights from. I had to confess that I couldn't remember and said that at least it wasn't anywhere around here and not online either. She went on to say she was a bit of an addict for tights and as we parted she said "They look good on you".
You can imagine how I felt! It lightened my step all the way home.
Here is a picture taken later that shows what she saw
And here from the rear
So, I say to any crossdresser who is afraid to go out in public dressed: just do it, getting just one compliment outweighs a hundred hostile glances.
But actually I haven't noticed more than a couple of mildly negative reactions in the over three weeks that I have been dressing full time in seven countries. And one of those was a drunk woman in a small group who pointed at me and said to one of her, equally drunk, male friends and said "Hey I've found a girlfriend for you". They weren't particularly threatening so I turned around and gave them my hardest stern stare but it didn't seem to bother them much. Anyway, she was ugly, and worse, badly dressed and so was he, so I felt superior! Shallow of me I know!
