It hit zero today, as I wined earlier, but fortunately, I had the foresight to go out yesterday and buy a coat. It took most of the day, alas. I’m skinny, but with long arms and I didn’t want to spend too much. Before, I left for here, I posted something about wanting to get as many clothes as possible before I left, because of not knowing what it would be like to cross-shop. Oh, what a fool I was.<\/p>\n
First of all, only one guy gave me a kind of disgusted look and that was the extent of anything negative. Much better than home. (People are reading me as female now because my hair has gotten longer.) Also: blazer-type jackets for sale at every store. In velvet(ine). In corduroy. In my size. Picture: blue velvet blazer. Royal blue!! Oh my god!!!!! There was a whole store<\/a> for very scrawny slightly femme-y guys who still wanted to dress like it’s still the mid-to-late 90’s! I was a size medium there! They had tweed jackets with elbow patches, something I spent months looking for!!! For only 230\u20ac, ahem, yes. I had to leave without buying anything because it was lovely, but it was just too much money. It hit zero today, as I wined earlier, but fortunately, I had the foresight to go out yesterday and buy a coat. It took most of the day, alas. I’m skinny, but with long arms and I didn’t want to spend too much. Before, I left for here, I posted something about wanting to get … Continue reading Buying a coat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3129,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/3129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThere’s a store called the C&A<\/a> which has ads in the metro where they show whatever their featured sale item is. This week it’s a black corduroy jacket for 30\u20ac. I’m going back to buy one tomorrow, but their coat selection, alas, didn’t fit me well. But every fashion in the store was really nifty, as far as I could tell. A city where I can shop for men’s clothes where it isn’t suspect for men to wear anything other than trainers or sweatsuits!
\nAnyway, after a lot of looking, I walked into a fairly fancy-seeming store<\/a> and tried on a tweed coat in a size medium. It was too big. But a sales person came over to help me. At home, I try to duck sales people because they’re not entirely friendly. The woman clearly thought it was a little odd that I wanted to try on men’s coats, but was happy to help. She went and found me a size small coat in black. It fit very well. I bought it. At the register, she went through the script, kind of laughing as she did so. Did I want men’s gloves to go with my men’s coat? How about some men’s dress socks? She would have smiled and sold me some if I’d said yes. We chatted a bit in frenglish. She wanted to know how to say, “would you like anything else?” in english.
\nSometimes, it’s really good to be foreign. I have no idea about modern french cross dressers and what their experiences are like (I’ve seen some around in bars and whatnot, but not had a conversation). But I think I get away with a lot because I’m foreign and people expect me to be kind of different. That’s true in Paris and it’s also true in Nebraska.
\nAnyway, I have never before enjoyed shopping for clothes that I can remember. Right now, I am pondering buying a whole new wardrobe. And coming to Paris from anyplace else in the world when I need clothes.
\nTags: Cross Dressing<\/a>, Paris<\/a>, Celesteh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"