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Omg I just had the most adorable reference question.

A high school aged girl came up to the reference desk asking for a test prep book on mathematics. I got up to retrieve it for her and she said “wow I love your shoes, where did you get them?”

“Oh, thank you. I can’t remember the name actually, but I ordered them online from a place that sells more masculine shoes in my size, because I can never find any in stores.”

Then she lights up and starts describing an outfit she’s putting together for a dance, and lists off that she has the “more masculine looking dress pants” a button up, suspenders. She just needs some good dress shoes. She tells me “everyone keeps saying I should wear heels with it but… no, I’m not that kind of girl”

And so I get the book for her and tell her I’ll treat her question about the shoes as a reference question and look up the website for her. She’s very excited by this and tells me that when she’s tried on men’s shoes they don’t fit right.

Then she tells me that “I look at you and I’m thinking damn I would wear her style” then stops herself and asks “is it okay that I used her pronouns about you?” And I was like yeah! I go by they and she pronouns.

And then she was smiling and left with her math book and website for shoes.

Extremely adorable baby butch. I hope she has a great time at the dance.

@closet-keys

What’s the site?

Tomboy Toes!

(from the website: “Tomboy Toes is a seller of formal and semi-formal men’s shoes in sizes intended to fit women, trans men, and non-binary people with smaller feet. If you’ve ever longingly admired men’s dress shoes but never been able to find them in sizes small enough for your feet, Tomboy Toes is for you.”)