I recently bought some amazing shoes which I’m calling my drag queen shoes. They’re the highest heels I’ve ever owned; I’m going to have to practise walking in them a bit. They make me very tall! They’re metallic platform heels – I’m not sure exactly how to describe the colour, though. (My partner and I disagree as to the best description for them…) Now I need to buy some big false eyelashes which are excitingly coloured. The only time I’ve worn false eyelashes before is on stage playing a pantomime dame. (I know they’re usually played by men, but there wasn’t anyone they could cast.) I’m going to start looking so that I can wear some at one of the play parties at the SM Dykes conference in June. (Which I’m so so excited about!) I have this idea of an outfit which I want to wear, though I’m not sure I’ll actually wear it at the conference if I haven’t got all the bits. Top hat, black leotard (a dance leotard or similar), tights (coloured ones? fishnets?), ‘drag queen’ shoes (metallic/sequined/glittery) and false eyelashes, and heavy dame/drag queen-type make-up. It’s a kind of femme drag/ringmaster/vaudeville look (in my mind, anyway) which is related to my love of all things stage-related. (That reminds me that I need to look into buying some base – stage foundation – partly because I’d like to own some, and also because my partner has a bit of a fetish for stage make-up.)
I think drag queens are awesome (and somehow some men are just really hot in drag) and I find the idea of women in drag really interesting, too. A ‘high femme’ look (though ‘high femme’ isn’t a word I usually use myself) has things in common with drag, for me anyway, in its attention to detail and exaggerated style. My idea of femme drag is highly stylised, theatrical, flamboyant and colourful: really ‘big’ with shiny things, sequins, lots of colours and patterns and high heels. I’d like to wear stage-type make-up like I wore when I was a dame out for the evening, and maybe a wig, too. It’s just something I’ve been thinking about a lot recently. To me, it seems a brave, confident way to dress, and I think it’d make me feel good and somehow like myself to dress like that sometimes. Kink settings (especially play parties) provide a perfect place to do this!
Gosh, that post has a lot of brackets in it! Something of a stylistic tic for me.
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