There was a good article in our paper this morning about another woman’s transition. You can read it without subscribing- just cancel out anything that pops up.
Some new pictures of Caitlyn in stylish outfits!
She’s got a good stylist. I should only have legs like that. Good for her.
She looks awesome.
I would never wear anything as short as what she’s wearing in the third photo, but then again my legs don’t look like hers. I can see that she needs to get used to standing up a little straighter – shoulders back, etc. Maybe it’s that she’s not used to walking around wearing heels for prolonged periods of time; maybe it’s that she doesn’t want people to notice her shoulders. Neither is uncommon for women in her position. Same with always covering her upper arms – she’s probably self-conscious about people thinking that they look “masculine.” As time passes and she’s more used to being seen in public, I suspect that the anxiety about what people will think will diminish. It usually does after a while – when I first started going out in public as “myself,” I would ask the person I was with if I looked OK, and if anyone was staring at me, every 10 minutes or so.
How tall is Caitlyn? Google puts her at 6’ 2". I know a few tall, gorgeous women who slouch - they instinctively don’t want to tower above the others.
BB I’m 6’ and I’ve had that problem as long as I can remember. I even go to the chiropractor now because of it.
Love the Kate Middleton type look in the fourth picture.
Good point. Being tall is definitely not a problem I’ve ever had to think about! (Being only 5’ 2" made life a lot harder in my previous incarnation – but has since made my life a lot easier than it is for most women like me.)
Looking at recent pictures of her, you can see that she is learning to be herself in public, and she is slowly losing the awkwardness and such. In some ways, because she was a celebrity, she probably didn’t have the ability to go out into public and experiment and learn how do deal with it, in a sense her transition was pretty rapid (what I mean is being out in public as Caitlyn, not therapy and other things). Being tall is an issue, as are other factors, one of the keys to being accepted for who you are is to not draw a second glance, and being tall as a woman does just that. Self consciousness does it too, if someone is awkward, glancing around, uncomfortable, it draws the eye. I guess with Caitlyn, since there is no way she is really going to blend in because of her fame and such, she kind of has decided to enjoy things, so she is wearing the more sexy outfits with short skirts, animal prints and the like, and heels and the whole nine yards. I also noticed her face is further recuperating, with the kind of surgery she had it takes a while for the face to lose that "I just had plastic surgery’ look, and that is going to make a big difference. I suspect within a year or so you will see a very different person, I suspect she will lose some of that ‘otherworldliness’ and such she can project from what I have seen, and simply be herself.
Same with always covering her upper arms – she’s probably self-conscious about people thinking that they look “masculine.”
Well the rest of us over 50 wish our arms looked muscular.
I just noticed that Caitlyn has the same shoe in photos 1-4 (can’t see 5 on my iPhone). A pointy-toe slingback which looks very elegant with every outfit. I suspect that there are two reasons she has not worn a different shoe. First, she is probably just getting used to wearing heels and second, she likely wears a rather large size, which is not easy to find, especially if you are looking for both style and comfort. Some caged JCs and Tributes are the easiest heels to wear, I swear! C’mon, Jimmy Choo and YSL, can you make a special order pair for her?
Her arms aren’t covered in the VF cover (though she did pull them back) or in a couple of other shots (black gown with off shoulder cap sleeves.) There’s another paparazzi shot of her in the leopard dress, getting into a car or something. It shows how broad her back is, especially in proportion to her hips. Not trying to critique, but I suspect, with her resources, that she’s trying to play to her present assets as best she can. As well as having fun. I actually love some of the clothing.
All I gotta say is welcome to the life of tall women with big feet, Caitlyn. It sucks sometimes 
Though I do admit, I hate heels and being this tall gives me a very convenient excuse not to wear them.
“All I gotta say is welcome to the life of tall women with big feet, Caitlyn. It sucks sometimes
Though I do admit, I hate heels and being this tall gives me a very convenient excuse not to wear them”
Hey, how about just the excuse that heels suck? They make you unstable, prone to falling, can damage your feet, prevent you from running, should you ever need to—and are generally as uncomfortable as heck? Is there any man or woman out there worth tottering around and damaging your feet for? Would supermom in the Terminator (Linda Hamilton) wear heels when she was kicking Terminator butt? I don’t think so! 
It depend on the heels. B-) Tomorrow, I will attempt a 3.5 mile RT walk in my 105 Tributes. No way I’m driving to the fireworks display! And if a Terminator happens to cross my path… consider his butt kicked.
Hmm, not sure what 105 Tributes are. Though if they can kick the butt of a Terminatrix (ie Kristanna Loken in Terminator 3), then they would pass scrutiny in my book. I’m not planning on wearing any shoes tomorrow night. Barefoot, in a boat, going to watch the fireworks in Gasworks park from a nice viewing location. No walking or driving required! But it does take a long time to get down there. That’s a lot of beer, and no restroom stops except for in the lake
Oh no worries, I am firmly against heels because of everything they do to your feet, legs, and hips but I don’t get pressured into wearing heels like a lot of my shorter friends do.
On another note, I’ve been barefoot most of the day in my house and still managed to fall twice. Even if I could, I wouldn’t trust myself to add heels. My mom always said I’d grow into my body… I think she’s finally given up thinking that now that I’m in my mid 20s. She’s just amazed I make it through the day with the amount that I fall and fall into things 
My feet were definitely the only part of me that didn’t appreciate my transition very much at first, and complained bitterly to me. I quickly discovered how uncomfortable it is to walk around in heels all day, and started wearing sneakers on my way to work and back home at night – a stereotypical 1980s thing, I guess, but it helped. Plus I never, ever wear heels higher higher than 2", and mostly I wear 1 1/2" heels or flats, or sandals in summertime… Anything more is way too painful, and I don’t know how anyone can bear it, no matter how much “better” higher heels supposedly make you look. 3"? 4" ? Unimaginable! And I can’t bear pointy-toed shoes with heels either, because I have wide feet and my toes slide down against the front part, and it’s excruciatingly painful. The one advantage I have is that it’s a lot easier to find shoes in women’s size 7 1/2 W, than it was to find shoes in men’s size 6 1/2 W. Only about 10% of shoe stores ever had anything in that size. (Sort of like the way I was never able to buy clothing in men’s sizes – I always had to go to the boys’ department, which was embarrassing, and the stores that had boys’ departments kept reducing them in size as the years went by. Whereas most department stores have petite sizes for women, and they’re easy to find online.).
Anyway, I remember from childhood how my mother’s toes looked after years of wearing heels, and I’d never want that. There’s a limit to how much I’m willing to suffer to look good! (Basically, not much.)
You now some say the sexual attraction of heels is how wearing them tips the pelvis forward? Your odd fact(oid) of the evening.