I'm tall and have skinny legs for a genetic male, plus they've been waxed/shaved for a year and I've been wearing knee length shorts and dude sandals to work for most of summer (relaxed dress code work place). So when I outed myself at work and showed my colleagues pics of me in knee length dresses that's when they (the women) commented on my legs! One woman even said "great legs"! Now I don't mind the compliments at all, in fact I love them, but I find it curious that my legs were apparently invisible in dude mode when exactly the same amount of skin was showing...and yet in a dress they are suddenly great legs! 

Go figure!

Firstly congratulations on the legs. You never know when they might come in handy.

How did your coworkers not notice.  I call it look without seeing its how you can walk past some people without realizing their there. I've found unless you work in an occupation where you have to be alert to people and your surroundings constantly (security, law enforcement,  medical,  hospitality-under age drinking) people tend to look and then dissappear into their own world. Sad for society but good when you want to slowly come out.

People probably have noticed before, but "Great Legs!" is not something normally said to a man. 

Probably just because male clothes are meant to draw attention away from the body. They bury everything in a loose baggy box of bland nothingness. Where female clothes are meant to highlight the body, bringing out its shape, bringing out its natural features.

So yeah. I can see why.

Nothing wrong with sexy legs Grace

Quote from: JamesG on March 20, 2014, 03:06:41 PM
People probably have noticed before, but "Great Legs!" is not something normally said to a man.

Yeah, I know lol! Sad isn't it!

Quote from: Carrie Liz on March 20, 2014, 03:11:47 PM
Probably just because male clothes are meant to draw attention away from the body. They bury everything in a loose baggy box of bland nothingness. Where female clothes are meant to highlight the body, bringing out its shape, bringing out its natural features.

So yeah. I can see why.

Absolutely, largely my theory too (plus the one from James G)

Quote from: immortal gypsy on March 20, 2014, 02:44:15 PM
Firstly congratulations on the legs. You never know when they might come in handy.

How did your coworkers not notice.  I call it look without seeing its how you can walk past some people without realizing their there. I've found unless you work in an occupation where you have to be alert to people and your surroundings constantly (security, law enforcement,  medical,  hospitality-under age drinking) people tend to look and then dissappear into their own world. Sad for society but good when you want to slowly come out.

Yes, there's a lot of validity to that. Although I forgot to mention that after coming out a number of the women admitted they have long been jealous of my "beautiful hands" and fingernails, so they have been noticing some things!

Quote from: Jenny07 on March 20, 2014, 03:14:41 PM
Nothing wrong with sexy legs Grace

Sexy legs are sexy! 

I've got a costume thing tonight and I plan on wearing my qi pao, which really shows off my legs. Gotta make sure they're nice and smooth though.

I had a similar experience, which I found kinda funny..

Quote from: Carrie Liz on March 20, 2014, 03:11:47 PM
Probably just because male clothes are meant to draw attention away from the body. They bury everything in a loose baggy box of bland nothingness. Where female clothes are meant to highlight the body, bringing out its shape, bringing out its natural features.

So yeah. I can see why.

Hmm, as a guy I always wore well-fitted and/or custom tailored clothes and that wasn't at all uncommon amongst guys I knew and worked with. Dressing with a little style as a guy is not hard. I believe many pre-transition women deliberately dress without style..

Also, the standard for great legs with men is different than for women. I'm a total leg-woman and I like muscular legs in men with the right amount of hair. This would not what I would call "great legs" when I look at a woman's legs.

I danced for years and years so I have athletic legs, but they were puny and girly when I was a guy. Now they're shapely and I receive compliments on them. Yay! Let's all own our legs.

Quote from: Carrie Liz on March 20, 2014, 03:11:47 PM
Probably just because male clothes are meant to draw attention away from the body. They bury everything in a loose baggy box of bland nothingness. Where female clothes are meant to highlight the body, bringing out its shape, bringing out its natural features.

So yeah. I can see why.

^This...BTW, You loook greaaaat Carrie. All that worrying months ago for nothing. Not that I'm one to talk lol

That's awesome!! Maybe it's their way of being supportive of you!

I experienced the same thing. I had the scrawniest legs as a guy, but once I started going out in dresses I started getting compliments on them.

As a guy they probably thought about me "what scrawny chicken legs - wish "he'd" wear long pants!" but now it's "wow!!" 

I can relate

I have also being told by women that I have great legs.. My roommate who was born female.. Says she is a little jealous as I have better legs than her

But pantyhose/stocking manufactures often use male legs as models for their products... As apparently it's a fact male on average have better legs than females..

So that's one advantage us t-girls have over generic girls.. Yay us

Quote from: noleen111 on March 21, 2014, 07:16:21 AM
I can relate

I have also being told by women that I have great legs.. My roommate who was born female.. Says she is a little jealous as I have better legs than her

But pantyhose/stocking manufactures often use male legs as models for their products... As apparently it's a fact male on average have better legs than females..

So that's one advantage us t-girls have over generic girls.. Yay us

Thanks GF. We sure deserve some good news. Cis women can't have all the luck. 

Quote from: Ms Grace on March 20, 2014, 02:25:12 PM
but I find it curious that my legs were apparently invisible in dude mode when exactly the same amount of skin was showing...and yet in a dress they are suddenly great legs!

The difference is: in a dress you're feeling well.

My legs are clearly my best asset lol even hiding in boy mode over the years I would have girls comment on how they wish they had my legs, that always made me smile