Bank Holiday edition

This is being worked across the bank holiday weekend  which has its modern life issues such as contractions of public transport service just as other things like special markets and that take place.

The other is of course Bank Holiday was the sobering reminder than having been off school since around the third week of July, return was juts just over a week away with being new forms, possibly even a new school too.

So for the Little Gurl Tammy, it brings back lots of memories of preparing for that and for something enjoying those last week or so's carefree fun playing on your swing swaying back and forth which I love to do even if I have to fight the insects off

Summer used to include much watching of cartoons back to back and in the late 1990's and early 2000's come the summer I'd sit with ice creams watching reruns of classic older cartoons from my youth.

Fittingly then I got this box set over seven sides of original Tom and Jerry cartoons including some some networks no longer show because of changed attitudes even though the "right" moral outcome is shown.

That's a load of fun for Little Gurl me.

Classics that were forgotten

This week we are catching up with things that arrived at Tammy's while away.

Hjalmar Borgstrom  the Norwegian composer has been well on the way to being rediscovered since the beginning of the new millennium. 

Some composers do long disappear from public consciousness over time and he is one of his most important works were performed in his native Norway until the Second World War.

No one seems to know just why that was.

 Until his death in 1925, he had also played an important role as a critic too.

With the premiere of his two operas and above all the rediscovery of his extraordinarily picturesque symphonic tone poems, a new page in this story of finding acceptance.

A contemporary of Richard Strauss who studied with Johan Severin Svendsen and Carl Reinecke among others, proves to be a legitimate descendant of Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner; it is difficult to escape the captivating boldness of his programmatic concepts and their unconventionally beautiful realization.

I found these works on regular cd from WDR radio recordings encouraged by a favourable Presto review highly enjoyable.

 

Some classical music composers are well known, being household names even amongst those who aren't greatly interested such as Mozart, Beethoven,Chopin and Holst and yet others are seldom heard and even less played regardless of their musics quality.

Clara Schumann a member of well known family that included Robert whose works are much programmed in concert halls is such an example.

Clara Josephine Schumann (née Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over the course of a 61-year concert career, changing the format and repertoire of the piano recital by lessening the importance of purely virtuosic works. She also composed solo piano pieces, a piano concerto (her Op. 7), chamber music, choral pieces and songs.

Part of the reason may down to her anxiety and issues with how she saw her own works, often requiring her brother's support to compose and have performed for the public in an era that required a certain amount of self publicity and getting sponsors to act as advocates for your music.

Secure employment even for the best was uncommon and thus over time we heard nothing of her works, indeed it wasn't until the 1996 Proms season a work was performed and on the opening night of this years prom in July we were treated to a performance of her Piano Concerto.

That artist made a recording a few years ago for Decca Records with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic coupled with selection of other piano works  and I recently bought a copy out of curiosity, finding the complexity of her scores fascinating.

The Modern Sissy

The genius of this goes back to last week where we were away at a Littles meet where we'd only taken skirts with matching socks and tights and the BabyDoll nightdress and french knickers working through the last year and a bit of getting together a look for me that worked.

We've explored over the decades various ideas and takes around what being a Sissy Gurl is, how being "Little" fits into that and different presentations from the classic more adult sissy gurl to the more child-like little one and really the latter is the one that needs the attention.

You can just go with bigger versions of what actual girls wear which works fairly well around the Schoolgirl/gurl look but that's never all she is, she goes and hosts parties and visits places like the entertainment complex with bowling rings and a cinema.

What would the legally adult gurl would want to wear as school socks while "regulation" were never cool enough to wear at a party and where do we start getting a more sophisticated look?

Tights are an option, can be patterned but do get uncomfortable and aren't always the easiest of things to put on while stockings are basically inappropriate for children and for some of us difficult to put on and attach suspenders (garter straps).

For those of us who might like the elegance and sophistication of skin smoothing tights without the struggle to get them in your feet and the right the way up, socks with an more group up wide lace band going just over the knee would work well.

A sophisticated more grown up look for a gurl at a social occasion, easy to put on, hygienic and going well with smarter dresses and skirts. 

There are other things like for those more on classic Little Gurl princess with hur plushie that need not involve ankle socks or school pereline socks.

A rose woven pattern  with an elastic top helps to take that look and add a bit of elegance and sophistication to it.

These are what I really do like though.

I've always loved the look of stocking tops although I found tights easier (but not easy with my damaged hands) and the appeal of lace but these socks are really made for Cosplay wearing with Lolita dresses both as a social thing and also at Anime and Manga conventions role playing characters.

Now there are two styles these heart ones and some rose ones and both come in packs of two, one white which works well with dark dresses and skirts and the black that you'd use typically with white.

For me they replace stockings which is something on the more adult side mistresses had found worked well on me, making the most of my legs without both some of fetish connections that stockings today had rather than until the late 1960's women who were "old enough" just wore them and the issues of fastening (and getting them on neatly).

They work with all sorts of skirts and dresses in satin, wool and mixed fibres from the more modest satin dresses aimed for sissies to mid and mini skirts in polyester  or even leather

They can easily fit within a glamour sissy look

The week saw me have with the one exception of white gym knickers for underneath a skort I wore for sports as I feel gurls like me really are better wearing feminine sports gear wearing just satin relatively plain knickers.

I found in one sense having to wear them really made me feel so much more a gurl for having soft materials, lace trimming and pretty bows.

I think in the context we are talking about here rather than what you might wear re-enacting being a school girl in the past, wearing fairly traditional uniform including the "regulation" school socks and knickers, the adult but little gurl having a social life should wear such knickers as a matter of course as they are pretty and as that gurl, you want to be pretty.

Thus going forward Tammy, who as we all know is definitely a Sissy Gurl will now be wearing such panties coupled with socks such as those shown above when she is not "at school" Tm from now on.

This is a look that is "Sissy" but is Little occupying the sweet spot that takes in Little Girl princess and adds the glamour of satins, lace without getting into anything "adult" but clearly recognizable to gurls.

Tammy is a pretty Little Sissy Gurl and benefits from presenting in a manner that suits Little Sissies.

Good Gurl!

Littles Camp Summer 2024

Well I was away last week at a Littles meet up where it was rather warm, indeed excessively so which meant I didn't actually bring a sweater, cardigan or sweatshirt with me at all and in fact I hardly wore a coat either.

 Sissikins left the house to be picked up around midday which meant the postie saw me as did the neighbours looking rather like this, more schoolgurlish and even walked among the "muggles" at Whalley Abbey without issue.

Being demure, speaking softly, avoiding fetish linked presentations and not sounding like a trucker I feel helped out.

Working in teams we made housed from card and decorated them with pink being a popular colour

We also did Home econ baking cakes and cookies of which mine were chocolate.

Rather tasty,what?

Sissy gurls win prizes as I won a dolly with a pretty dress and crown on in the outdoor treasure hunt which was most fitting as I wore a fair bit of pink.

That include by pink satin with white lace BabyDoll night dress and satin frilly french knickers which was the most suitably sissiest I have ever worn away and seeing myself really dollied up as a sissy felt just wonderful.

Also won in the general knowledge quiz was this most appropriate Guides water carrier with pop up straw which will prove useful when out either on day visits or exploring as an eternal Brownie.

We played rounders with a proper long bat  fielding and  batting in two teams and had a school sports day event where I wore a green top and my white skort with frilly socks.

It was an enjoyable time spent in pleasant company and some great home cooking.

Beyond that, I fel the bigger thing was my feeling comfortable as a Little Sissy frilled and in satins beneath my skirts - I didn't even have a single pair of shorts with me so I just had to find the inner confidence to go out and talk dressed obviously feminine.

Sissikins was a very Good Gurl not just helping out but being true to hur Sissy nature.