How I'd like to look at the party tonight...

Xenia Tchoumitcheva

Happy New Year! Good luck out there.

For New Year, I am considering building a time machine.

The long dark must also end.

Carrie Fisher in quotes

One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.

I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.

I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

Instant gratification takes too long.

Carrie Fisher

Fuck this year.

George Michael

Damn it.

Love, you didn't do right by me...

White Christmas, black dress.

And to all a good night!

Happy holidays, insert as appropriate

She was always royalty to me.

The shortest day, the longest night, indoors dressing up...

Congratulations!

To Lyndsy Fonseca and her new husband Noah Bean

Skyler Samuels

Scream Queens really isn't good any more.

Yeah, I want to be a pretty blonde...

Ashley Hinshaw

"What am I wearing?"

Dove Cameron, seeming a little surprised by her dress

Highlights of the year

Maryana Rozhkova, from the same photoshoot, why not?

Busy week ends. Yay?

Felicity Jones. Swoon.

Sense8 Holiday Special

That was a surprise...

Christmas TV listings, and their share of pretty people. No Poldark brooding and swooning Christmas special, sadly...

Yes, I've done TG time travel stories...

Timeless

A new time travel TV show with a female lead grumbling as she puts on various historical costumes? Well, that appeal is certainly Timeless to me. ;)

Xmas shopping all done except the food. Yay.

Busy week ahead. Be good! Or at least be careful.

Scream Queens is even sillier than last year. But darn if I don't like some of the outfits.

Xmas shopping done apart from parents. Time for a little treat...

And for my next trick, a TG comedy space opera. (Hi WB!)

I'd probably feel that way too...

The Tumblr dashboard appears to be borked. So I had to go sideways to find this picture from Simone...

"I'm wearing retro 50s girls clothes and I love it!" 

Photo by Harrison Hurwitz... doesn't say who she is.

Maybe I should do my nails like that.

Frost on the pavement, making it sparkly and dangerous. Like me.

Resist the sweater, wear the party dress

Winter's here, to an extent. No snow yet, just a few days of frost, but it's warm thick tights time anyway. Boo.

Still, party dresses in the windows of every department store, so that's something...

World AIDS Day

We've had a little good news on AIDS treatment recently, but there is still a long way to go. Don't let it be forgotten.

New man boots worn in. Still not heels.

Well, I signed the online petition against the new wonky internet snooping and censorship rules.

So now they have me on that list. :)

Six years of Caitlyn's Masks!

Also RPing towards becoming like Betty Draper...

And now, Ashley Hinshaw in Cherry

Hello nurse! I may have been screengrabbing her for RP purposes.

Happy Black Friday, discount lingerie shoppers!

Happy Thanksgiving, if applicable!

I rather doubt I qualify as conventional

If I vanish from the internet, it may be the Conservatives' fault as they want to ban videos of 'unconventional' sex online, and put other things behind age restrictions that a lot of sites can't enforce.

Who is she? I want to be her.

I can't find out who this is...

The "photo: Mylena" tag doesn't help...

Support your local captioner!

A challenge I can take part in!

I want all of this...

Kitty Kosmo in Romantic Threads, photo by LeMewPhoto.

Transgender Day Of Remembrance

Remember. Stay safe, stay sane. Take care of yourselves and others. We go on.

Daisy Ridley, Felicity Jones, Emilia Clarke...

The new Star Wars movies sure like their pretty English brunettes who can kick ass.

... I want to appear in a new Star Wars movie.

Time to slip into something a little more comfortable...

I stumbled across this picture today...

... and I had to share.

Wow, someone PMed me about RPing on the Elliquiy forum!

Trying to get back to a normal concern

There's a really pretty dress in the window of a local charity store. I wish it would fit me.

Ghost In The Shell

Okay, talking about things again.

Ghost In The Shell has always feature fluid identities, changeable bodies and attractions, and it looks from the trailer that at least some of that will appear in the live-action version. Which is nice.

Wear a safety pin, if you feel equipped to back it up.

Love is real, as Dr. Chuck Tingle reminds us.

We'll get there.

I'll carry on in due course.

For reasons that are probably obvious.

Not really feeling very chatty.

Taking the week off.

LGBTQ representation on TV is up...

... but increasingly uneven. Mixed news for my 900th post.

Jin Xing

China's biggest TV personality, Jin Xing, is trans. Which is cool.

Your Name

Laboured with a really unhelpful English title, Your Name is a huge hit anime film about a boy and girl switching bodies with comic/romantic/other consequences.

I've seen the sensory overlap romance before in Joss Whedon and Brin Hill's In Your Eyes but this also goes full body-swap.

So, the US election polls are rather closer than I'd like...

Spankenstein!

This retro style animation must have taken a while...

Look in the mirror and see...?

It's still Halloween night...

An old idea of looking in a mirror after lighting a candle (or saying a spell, or peeling an apple) to see what you would look like crossgendered your future spouse...

But yeah, this old greetings card showing a woman seeing a man in the mirror suggests a different idea to me at least. ;) None showing the other way round, for some reason...

Happy, er, November

NaNoWriMo maybe?

Ah well. It was nice to be able to buy my annual black lipstick without being looked at suspiciously. :D

Happy Halloween!

Sexy witches, not a new thing.

Is Rapunzel a princess?

Maybe when she's Taylor Swift.

Snow White

... as depicted by Rachel Weisz.

And behind the scenes:

Cinderella

My fantasy, of course.

I want this...

I want to be like this...

Rococo, baroque...

I'd try it all.

This week's theme: Princesses

Because I wish I were a princess.

Beauty And The Beast, by Viona

Fixing your makeup...

... you may give some clue about Stepford's little secret.

The Stepford Wife, by Greta Punch.

Are you... Stepford material?

You can be... you will be.

Your wardrobe, waiting for you

By Allison + Cam.

This is what you will wear...

By Horst P. Horst, November 1954. (or 1947, or 1948... the internet isn't sure)
Thanks to Jennifer

The Good Wife's Guide

Housekeeping Monthly, 1955, with all the rules a good Stepford Wife has to follow. Because surely no-one would accept it without a proper Stepford mind...

A cause dear to many of us

The Smithsonian is fundraising to conserve Dorothy's Ruby Slippers.

Stepford Style

You will dress properly from now on. Don't pretend you don't want to. This is what you've always wanted. Let everyone know that you are a Stepford Wife.

How many perfect housewives can you need?

And how many people can you turn into aspects of her?

Photo by and starring Christine McConnell

This week's theme: Stepfordization

Being turned against my will into a powerful man's perfect housewife. Looking, dressing and acting the way he wants.

Stepford can be horror, or comedy, or both - The Stepford Wives has been adapted as both, and Jordan Peele's new film Get Out looks to do something similar to a different target.

And if you play with the politics and the subtext... it could also be a forced TF fantasy...

I have been using Elliquiy quite a bit...

:D

She looks so surprised...

... almost like she wasn't expecting to look or dress like this.

Perhaps he wasn't.

(Picture thanks to Simone)

End of the week...

... time for an essay about fashion in the 1880s with loads more dresses.

Thanks to historicaldress for the link

CoverGirl's First Cover Boy

James Charles, CoverGirl's first male ambassador.

One I've seen myself

at the National Museums of Scotland

Day dress ensemble, European, possibly British c. 1870-3

Thanks to fripperiesandfobs

150 years old, waiting to be worn

Evening dress ca. 1860
From Kerry Taylor Auctions, London
Thanks to fripperiesandfobs

Happy Coming Out Day!

I'd love to join you.

RED

Day dress, 1860′s
From the Museo de la Moda
via fripperiesandfobs

Ride with me

Riding habit, ca. 1825
Rijks Museum, Amsterdam
Via omgthatdress, via historicaldress

Persimmon silk satin

Evening dress
Medium: Persimmon silk satin and ecru lace
Date: c. 1895
Country: England
The waist of this evening gown measures an atypically slender 18 inches. Although stories of severely tight-laced corsets are almost certainly exaggerated, women often did lace more tightly for formal occasions. The full, puffed sleeves of dresses in the 1890s also made waists appear even smaller.

via historicaldress

A week of 19th century dresses...

Via historicaldress on tumblr:

Emerald green silk taffeta trimmed with large black velvet bows with cut steel beading applied. American, attributed, ca. 1860s. Silk Taffeta.

Beehive

As modeled by Kelleth Cuthbert

Oh, corsets

Morgana's new calendar on the way...

Oh my.

Sam

And just to not be all kinky outfits all month:

The long-awaited release of indie TGTF comedy Sam, reviewed by Courtney. Sounds like it's fun but not quite up to the wait.

Shiny!

And now, Ulorin Vex.

Those shoes are terrifying. I want them.

Wiiiitch!

I'm certainly bewitched.

The new trend for silvery hair...

... can work.

Happy October!

Obvious starting point: Morgana in slinky Gothic dress!

September ends...

... time for the annual run of Halloween costumes I'd like to wear.

Hold on tight!

Big weekend ahead...

Five weeks to Halloween!

Register to vote, USA. It's important.

The heating has come on. Time for autumn fashions...

I'm hoping for a ballgown or two...

Strictly Come Dancing is back... and that means hopefully a few weeks of this.

Laura Whitmore

I have that Friday feeling.

It's Saturday.

Happy Autumn!

Such is life

Was out this evening and a friend had the cutest top and I couldn't comment on it. :/

Shopping does not work that way

The Amazon Fashion adverts with models delivering packages... I'm pretty sure that's not how that works.

If it is, then where do I apply for the job?

Looking forward to the cyberpunk future arriving in four years.

We lost the Lady Chablis last week too. 2016 really can stop now.

Thought on seeing a pretty vintage style dress

I'm betting that most young ladies who make pretty vintage style clothing would be happier not knowing how much I admire their work...

Life's little luxuries

Long weekend ahead... taking a moment to wear something nice.

Or, y'know, doesn't have to be a vampire.

All things considered I would rather be a sexy vampire girl.

Can I borrow this...?

Mainbocher evening dress, 1951

Thanks to fripperiesandfobs

Long, rough weekend.

"Gender suspicious" is a great form of identification.

Alexis Arquette

Alexis Arquette, genderqueer and "gender suspicious" actor and activist, has died, just 47.

Busy weekend alert.

Window shopping at the museum

Local museum has upgraded its wardrobe history bit so now you can get closer to the dresses.

Just not in them...

Okay, I cried at the Paralympic opening ceremony. Just once...

This may be too girly, even for me!

Dove Cameron in Hairspray Live

Obviously I would have to try it to confirm...

Thanks to Wenterburn for the picture!

Miss Peregrine

Tim Burton's film of Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children features Eva Green as the titular protector of kids with odd powers, like Edward Gorey's X-Men. Her pointy-shouldered Goth riding ensemble is... interesting as well.

Poldark Swoon

Will you be mine...?

The main local DVD store is moving, so I bought a few things in the sale. I was very good and only bought one film because of the dresses.

It was Crimson Peak.

Is this a battle worth fighting? Maybe...

Anything response

After the Anything thing, producer Mark Ruffalo responded, "We are all learning." Yes, we are. I'm glad he tried, anyway, as a fan of his environmental activism. And the Hulk of course.

Another week, another non-TG TG starring role

Sense8 star Jamie Clayton is not happy about Matt Bomer taking a transfemale role. (The role of a sex worker, like Jared Leto in Dallas Buyers' Club. I'd be happier still if that wasn't the main thing we did on screen.)

Summer's ending...

Time for fall fashions!

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

Okay, one more Victoria photo

Riding sidesaddle? Yes please.

Yes, I'm weird...

Jenna Coleman playing Queen Victoria is one thing, but I admit it's not quite as appealing as Clara being a modern girl having to wear Victorian attire when she travels to that era...

All things considered, I like safe spaces and trigger warnings, kthxbai.

Me as Jenna Coleman as Queen Victoria

A selfie in the mirror in costume...

what I dream of seeing in the mirror...