Robotic Engineer Mark Bryan amassed hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram by cataloguing his daily outfits that include skirts and heels.
The 61-year-old grandfather of four has been happily married to his wife for more than 11 years.
In 2010, he moved from Texas to a town near Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, where he now works in robotics engineering and coaches a local football team.
He loves cycling and fast cars and beautiful women, and he tries to exercise at least twice a week.
He is presumed to look great in a pencil skirt and a pair of six-inch stilettos.
Alongside his first Instagram post in Feb 2020, he captioned: “I am just a normal happily married straight guy that loves Porsche’s, beautiful women, and likes to incorporate a skirt and heels into his daily wardrobe. Clothes and shoes should have no gender”
Mark dons 38cm heels and bold pencil skirts as he embarks on a mission to find out what it feels like to walk in women’s shoes – quite literally, gripping social media with his dramatic photoshoots and important message.
He admits that his interest was piqued about 40 years ago when he was dating a woman who also happened to be 1.8m tall.
It was then when he fell in love with stilettos, but it was only five years ago when he decided to wear the shoes and pencil skirts to work.
Naturally, this decision meant that Mark got a lot of stares on his walk to work, but he admits that he never paid much attention to them and that they didn’t have an impact on him or his masculinity.
“People look at my pictures, and they instantly assume I’m gay or something. I think what gets me going are the people who say that I’m helping them see things the way they’ve always wanted to see them, but were afraid to,” Mark told a Magazine.
“As a football coach, I like helping young men develop not just as players, but as responsible members of society. Being able to help people through the problems they have helped me more than just the compliments that I’m looking good,” he said.
Bryan’s love for fashion and stepping outside of the box has attracted famous designers such as Marc Jacobs and he is now a fashion model.
In his bid to do good, Bryan donates some of the proceeds to schoolchildren in Pakistan, while being vocal about the gender stereotypes the world has placed on itself and the importance of challenging these in the form of expression and allowing people to live their truth.
