Full disclosure: I would like to make a business of this at some point (I say at some point as I am currently very busy and happy in my present job). My medium-term goal is to offer consultancy services and personal shopping experiences. My long-term? Ah, well that might be revealing too much, too soon.

But that’s not why I’m doing this.

I started this blog because I have a genuine passion for fashion. Strangely enough it’s not my own fashion I pay attention to, but the looks and styles of others. I can’t help but view people without the questions, ‘does that look good?’ ‘could it look better?’ ‘what would look good on him/her?’ running through my mind. In particular I am interested in transgender fashion.

I work in public relations in Soho. Day-in, day-out I walk through a labyrinth of streets (trying to walk a different route each time) to my office, and while I do that, I keep my eyes open. Recently I’ve noticed an increase in the size of the trans community – but I have a feeling I shouldn’t have done. Once a person has gone through gender reassignment the hope and intention is that that person can take on their new identity without standing out as trans to the passing world.

So how is it that I’ve noticed this? Most of the time, it’s the way the person is dressed. The clothing might be expensive and fashion-forward, but if it doesn’t move correctly on the figure then the signs are painfully obvious.

For example. Leaving Oxford Circus a few weeks ago I was walking behind a tall woman. Nice shoes I thought, great hair colouring and style – beautiful jacket and nice slim legs. But the bandeau dress, as expensive as it might have been, hung off her hips, rather than clinging to them as the style would normally insist. My immediate thought was that a tulip style skirt would have presented a much better effect and prevented me from ever suspecting that she, might once have been a he.

Now, you may ask, ‘what right does she have to advise me?’ ‘what qualifies her to hand out such comments?’

I am cisgender. I agree with the sex I was assigned at birth and haven’t experienced the emotions and challenges that come with being in the wrong body. But I have been a female now for 28 years – what’s more, I have been a teenage girl and been through years of bad clothing choices, using trial and error to know exactly what suits my body. True, like all of us, sometimes I don’t care. Sometimes I’ll throw on a baggy purple number knowing that neither the colour nor style work for me – but the important point is that I know this. I know what does suit and I know how to dress my shape – whether I want to accentuate my curves and/or bust – or minimise them. I can make my legs look longer, my calves thinner … and all by changing the cut or length of my trousers, using layering or employing clever hidden panels.

And now I would like to extend this knowledge, I’d like to help you – if you are interested – by offering up some of the tips I have learnt over the years , and showing exactly how they can be applied to the trans body.