HNT: Heels and Androfemmeinity

I love wearing heels.

I love how they make my legs look shapelier and I feel ten times sexier. And red heels? Twice as good. Unfortunately I can't wear them for more than a few hours at a time because my feet get sore...

Towards the end of last term I began thinking of re-introducing "butch" back into my wardrobe - which is a little ironic, because as soon as I had the chance to shop I instantly splurged on the most femmy things imaginable (read: lots of high heels, skinny jeans, and lacy underwear). But lately I have been feeling like dressing more "butch" - at least butch-er than how I usually dress. Collared shirts, hoodies, sweatpants. I've always thought of myself as a femme with butch accents - and I want to smash the two genders, the two aesthetics, together - combining my navy-with-white-polka-dots, ruffled miniskirt with white combat boots, for example.

When I dress in a "masculine" manner, however, it's never really masculine, it's more just my femmeinity expressed in a different form. A little Tank Girl, a little dandy. I re-interpret masculinity to suit my needs.

[via SublimeFemme Unbound]

I find both gender expressions powerful, but in very different ways. When I'm decked out in heels and a dress and makeup, I feel drop-dead gorgeous enough to knock anyone off their feet just from looking at me - but butchness exhibits a very different kind of power. An audacious, inappropriate, active kind of power.

(For anyone who's curious - my heels are from Asos and the underwear from Cotton On )

More of the same:

SublimeFemme Tells All No. 15

Tomboy Femme & Other Multigendered Femmes

Finding My Multigendered Femme Identity

Can a Femme be Butch too?