I have a couple of things to add this week.
Firstly, I was able to get a skirt fixed for cosplay. I was a bit nervous as it's a bespoke garment but it seems to be fine now. I just need a couple more items including some shoes and I'll be able to wear it somewhere once conventions start up again. I have thought about getting some photographs done but right now they just end up being very poorly lit ones in my house unless I can sort out something else. I have also thought about getting some more professional ones done but I feel a bit sheepish about it because of the way I look which I think is mainly the hair and make-up aspect of it. It's like I would almost feel bad about wasting someone's time.
Last weekend I went out for a walk to a local park which I often do especially in my lunch hour while working from home just to get some exercise. Most times I'm dressed when I do so as I still enjoy dressing while working from home (winter leggings and thermal tights have been brilliant at the time of year, by the way) and this day I was wearing a black and white flowery dress, bright blue tights and knee length black boots plus a long black coat. Walking down the road I suddenly heard a screech of tyres and someone shout out "Is that a geezer?". Needless to say, I sped up quite a bit to get home. Apologies for sharing such a brief incident but I thought it would be interesting. At least I was convincing in some aspects I guess and I wonder if it would have been better with a wig.
One more thing which shows the flip side of crossdressing, I watched Theatre of Blood this week which is a horror movie from 1973 starring the legendary Vincent Price and the wonderful Dame Diana Rigg who passed away recently. Rigg was a fashion icon in her own right back in the 1960s when she took on her most famous role, that of Emma Peel in spy series The Avengers. The plot sees Price as an actor who takes revenge on the circle of critics that denied him an award by killing them in a variety of ways from the works of Shakespeare. Rigg takes on the role of the dutiful daughter who joins him in his criminal enterprise along with a gang of meth addicts.
So why am I telling you this? Does the master of horror don a dress? Well no not really although he does have a number of disguises but it's Diana Rigg who spends a great deal of the film clad in a curly wig, moustache and sunglasses and male drag as Price's accomplice. While I did mention the cross dressing killer trope a few weeks ago there isn't really a fetish element to this and it's more for a disguise than anything else. Rigg also has a few scenes clad in a lovely white top, skirt and go-go boots. The film is presently on Amazon Prime and if you are partial to some horror then I would definitely recommend it.
