The one generalization a person can make about transgender people is that we like to wear clothing strongly identified with the gender of which we identify. As a trans-woman, I love wearing dresses. And that's OK. But it means that to blend in I have to tone things down by wearing a dress as an oversized tunic. So that's what I do more often than not these days.
When I bought the above dress, I didn't have the idea that it would be out of stock as quickly as it was. I bought it just before the color above was gone. Today, wearing this dress to work with a pair of black leggings, I felt that I looked pretty and appropriately informal for a place like my office. (I'd hate to be wearing a T-Shirt and Jeans to the office every day as some women do at my office.)
This dress is slightly more problematic. Once I put it on for a test drive, it screamed to be worn as a dress. So, on the next warm day that I have free, I plan to do so. It is very comfortable, and well worth the bargain price I paid for it. (Remember, both dresses came from Target, and the net including shipping and tax was under $42.00.) Even if this dress and the dress above it last for only one season, I'll get good value from them.
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Recently, the above dress arrived in the Mystery Box shipment from Universal Standard. This is the type of dress I'd never buy on my own as it's best worn by a woman with a defined figure, and not by a trans-woman. It took me a while to figure out how to put this dress on, as the outer belts which tie together by the woman's left elbow didn't have a hidden hole for one tie to go through - like the one below.
This dress was also in the shipment, and I posted a mediocre picture of me wearing it in an earlier post. At least, this dress was easy to figure out once I saw the hole for the belt that came in from the left side of the dress.
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Even though I feel that the dresses from Universal Standard are of better quality than the dresses from Target, I will get more use from the two simple garments at the top of the entry. Will I be tempted to buy more dresses in the future? Yes. But most of my purchases will be for practical purposes, and not to gamble on getting something nice as I did buying "Mystery Boxes".
