The jacket I'm wearing in
this picture. It really helps me pass. I bought it second hand and it has always had a faint odour of the previous owner's nice cologne, despite being aired etc. I don't mind at all, it smells good.
I was wearing that jacket with the hood up one night walking home and a guy coming the other way looked at me and then quickly looked away and kept looking down as he passed me, with small and non-threatening body language etc. as though he had registered me as a possible threat. That was a new experience for me. It was a bit hilarious, but yeah, I sure felt manly!
Funnily enough, as much as I love shirts and ties and suits and so on, I don't feel that manly wearing them... because when I do, everyone starts making heaps of slightly fetishy comments about how sexy it is when women wear suits and blah blah blah. I'm not really out yet, so they're not aware they're misgendering me, but it's so frustrating putting on masculine clothing and then having everyone remind me that they see me as a woman every five seconds. At least wearing other things I'm able to just not think about it and people don't harp on about what a ~sexy lady~ I am or whatever