How do you store/keep your femme wardrobe...?

[cindyinsatin]

Over the years I have accumulated enough of a femme wardrobe that it fills up a small closet in our guest bedroom. I love having everything all organized and easily accessible for those times that I get to dress.

It is very disappointing, not to mention a pain in the ass, to have to pack it away whenever we have company stay in the guest room. I am also worried that it might inadvertently get discovered.

I am in a DADT situation with my wife. And my drab closet just doesn't have the room to move all my femme clothing to.

Wondering what storage solutions you ladies have with your wardrobe?

Cindy

[Shely]

Well i have a couple of boxes in my basement shop with shoes and other accessories. My 70 some dresses hang in the utility room, in a safe location. my middle drawer has my frilly things hose and my bras and girdles are in a box on a high shelf in my side of the closet. When i dress i have to run all over the house to get things ready and the reverse when i go drab. We don't have a big house, but at least the basement is finished.

[Tracy Irving]

I built a closet in the basement for most of my wardrobe. The overflow dresses are in garment bags in the attic. The rest is in a dresser in the bedroom.

[azncd]

Mine are just in random boxes and suitcases in storage areas. I've been using the vacuum storage bags to keep things from getting mildewy in the summer though.

[Joni T]

In the closet between my wife's stuff and my drab stuff.
Jon

[Alice_2014_B]

In the closet between my guy-clothes.
:)

[alwayshave]

In my closet with all my stuff and My fiancee's stuff.

[Sami Brown]

I have a walk in closet in the bedroom that I use as an office. It has all of my clothes, not just the femme ones. Since it is used only as an office, I don't have to move anything when people visit.

Sami

[Jaymees22]

I have a closet in the laundry room which I can lock if I have to. I keep my shoes in a large suitcase under the bed in the extra bedroom. This is an improvement over our last place where everything was kept in suitcases.

[Scarlett398]

Great question, Cindy....Up until last September I was in a strict DADT situation with my Scarlett clothes stored in a closet in an extra bedroom and still quite a bit stored in a temperature controlled storage unit about 2 blocks from the house.

Then came a time about two months before we moved into our dream home. I told my wife I didn't want to store Scarlett's wardrobe, heels, boots, booties, makeup, and all jewelry and accessories into my master bedroom closet and one of the four bedroom closets with an entire dresser in the bedroom.

We had a mini "The Talk" in our new home two months before closing on the new home and then moving in. She gave me the green light to all of the storage space I needed on the inside of our new dream home when it was time to move in. My clothing of Scarlett's is usually kept in suit bags that I had from many purchased of suits from Joseph A. Banks. My position at work required me to wear really nice suits, shirts, ties, and expensive dress shoes. I did a lot of travel to defense contractor's facilities from coast to coast give speeches to high level employees with these companies. So I have plenty of really nice suit bags to store Scarlett's clothing in. Right now none of it is put away in these bags. It's in the extra bedroom closet which has lots of space with double clothing racks in the closet that are 36 inches apart allowing me to store twice the clothing as usual in the closet. My heels and boots are all in their original boxes up above the top rack in the two closets noted above. My wigs, shape wear, tights, hose, jewelry, etc. are all stored in either Nike or Puma shoe boxes up in the top or down in the bottom of those two closets. I've got a lot of running shoes from those companies and don't store any of those shoes in their original boxes.

The only time now I have to put Scarlett's things away is when on rare occasions when family members are spending a few days at our home on visits. They stay in one of the bedrooms that has none of Scarlett's things in them. That's one thing that is super about our dream home - it's got a ton of closet storage space. I'm sure sooner or later I'll run out of Scarlett space and have to changes items out for new things purchased and sell some of the nicer things on line or take to one of three local consignment shops.

Well, that's it! Just really happy that gorgeous redhead of mine has accepting my cross dressing and I just can't get my girl on while she's at home which is just fine with me.

[Tracii G]

Double closet in the master bedroom and the closet in the guest bedroom.
My girl clothes are my clothes I wear everyday.

[lingerieLiz]

I'm fortunate all my clothes that are in season are in our closets. I have so much though that I do store out of season casual clothes in our garage sealed in storage boxes. The boxes are clear but I don't have secrets.

[Becky Blue]

Mine are in two boxes in a lock up cabinet in my office at work. My office is mine alone, its locked when I am out. so my stash is accessible but quite safe... alas I am limited to the two boxes which as you all know is never enough, this girl loves to shop!!!

[bridget thronton]

Closet and dresser - I do not need to hide anything

[faltenrock]

I have my own closet just for my female wardrobe of 30 skirts, 30 dresses, 25 tops and blouses, 10 jackets, shoes and so on. My wife knows my closet. I also have a little suitcase for travel that is always readly to go.

[Rayleen]

I have my bedroom now with a large closet and a dresser , its much easier than packed in a bin in the basement like before.

[Queen Bridget]

In a bag under my bed.

I wish there was some way for it to self destruct in the event of my death.

[Asew]

Years ago when my wife and I contemplated divorce I moved all my stuff downstairs into my home office. She overtook the master closet during that time and when our spat was over there was no room for my clothes to come back up. When I told my wife in January about my dressing, she made some room in the back of the closet to hang my stuff. I also have a bag with 2 petticoats, panties and bras. I keep some miscellaneous stuff in a box near the 12 foot ceiling. And I have my "work skirt" hanging in the back of my home office (a midi jean skirt).

Before my wife knew, I would keep her discarded clothes that I liked in her extra clothes totes in the basement, and few other things in a hard to reach drawer in my office. About a year ago was when my "office skirt" started getting hung up in the home office closet since I was wearing it more often.

[Stacy Darling]

It's a complete yet small spare room for my things now (no bed though, probably the next step), even a mirrored dresser. My clothes were stashed throughout my extensive furniture collection previously! I should check to see if I still have anything stashed!

Stacy!

[BrendaPDX]

I am envious of all of you. That said, I keep all of my girl clothes in the attic. Yes it's a pain.

[IleneD]

What an interesting question and it brings to mind something I never quite considered.

The Wife is "accepting", but begrudgingly so. Things have improved and getting more accepting all the time, but the road was fraught with battles over my Femme Life. But since I "came out of the closet" to the wife, the wardrobe has lived "in the closet". There was a time before I came out to her (some 3 yrs ago) where I had so few garments [ a few panties, leggings and one dress] that they were easy to stash securely. Since then, Ilene's clothes have proudly hung in the master bedroom walk-in closet alongside my regular guy wardrobe.

And it's the one thing about my CD that doesn't seem to annoy my Beloved. And I truly appreciate it. One very nice thing about where I stand in my current transitional life is that my Wife doesn't mind if I dress around the house, so I'm "free" to wear whatever I wish. That's why I keep my girl wardrobe immediately available. (She just doesn't like the make up, wigs or body shaping as she resents these all as elements of FAKE women).

I almost have a fetish..... OK, a bit of OCD when it comes to organizing them. I have managed to clear out enough old male clothes and since have made enough great thrift store purchases that I noticed I nearly have a half & half mix of male and female articles hanging in my main closet. It was an amazing realization, even for me; that nearly half of my closet was filled with women's clothing that I regularly wear in some manner. Left side of the walk-in rack is all guy stuff. The right side and back is all femme. (Lord, I'm so proud to see it.) All dresses are together, hung by color. Hangers of leggings (yes, I hang them up). A line of skirts, then tops and next to them sweaters, followed by pants hung carefully together. Shoes have a separate under shelf. Housekeeping lessons learned from an obsessive Mother (God bless her) and the US Navy.

Like all my clothes, I keep seasonal items in a back room closet on hangers; not hidden. Winter dresses and sweaters are almost due to go into the back and the lighter, brighter summer dresses, capris and tops will come into the master closet (or mistress closet, since it's mine). The only time I stashed the entire wardrobe was during a self-test I did for myself to see if I could go 30 days without dressing up (it failed, miserably).

Life can be good. Very good. When I see that, it makes me think that if I take this road to full feminization, that I can proceed slowly and eventually get there.

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I wish there was some way for it to self destruct in the event of my death.

Oh no you don't, dear. Really..... no.
You want those those to jump out of their bag, run about proudly and loudly and display themselves from a flag pole. They will scream to The Muggles, "Here was the human being you never knew and never understood, and she was beautiful!!"

One of the great reliefs of "coming out" was that everyone who knows and loves me already understands I'm weird as hell. There will be no surprises.

[Sidney]

I used to hide stuff all over the place. Even after coming out to my wife when we recently moved I was finding things I forgot. Out 40ish daughter was helping and when she would find something girlish she would yell OK, Mom Dad whose box does this go into. LOL

After our move I don't hide anything. I'm now the proud owner of my own walk in closet and my own eight draw dresser. Life is wonderful.

[NicoleScott]

Two large zippered duffel bags. One for clean and neatly folded clothes, and one for shoes. A third smaller bag which holds my three makeup cases. Since I like straight wigs, laying them flat on top of the clothes doesn't mis-shape them. Nestled among everything are mirrors, hangars, and other miscellaneous necessities. Everything's ready for travel (by car, my only way).

[Robertacd]

I'm one of the lucky ones that gets to hang my female clothes in my closet right along with my male clothes and my lingerie is in the top two drawers of my dresser.

[Rollermiss]

Interesting where you girls keep your wardrobe. Being I am out to my immediate family. My lingerie is in one dresser. Jeans, my androgynous cloths are in another, T-shirts etc. My dresses are hung in the walk in across from the wife's. Same with shoe. My extra and dress work cloths share a small area of the walk in. Purses, jewelry, Etc. are in a built storage in the closet.


Kelsey

[Stephanie47]

My wife and I are in a deep DADT. She has not said anything for years and years about my cross dressing. Consequently, she has no idea of the extent of my wardrobe. Unfortunately, DADT means everything is in storage boxes; over 18 Xerox boxes stacked in our converted garage. My original collection of lingerie (primarily slips, panties and bras) is kept in a large box in my nightstand by my side of the bed. I keep some of my panties in my armoire. I am envious of those who are able to hang their dresses in plain sight. I have 160 dresses which would never fit in our walk-in closet with all our regular clothes. One of our friends when he had his house built had a storage room built with the only access through a hidden door in the back of a closet in one of the spare bedrooms. I wish I had it.

[LeannS]

at one time it was under the bottom drawer of a dressers not many things can fit so overflow stuff would go under the bed Dresses and skirts would but hung up on the far side of my guy things kinda of hidden. but after she found my boobs she was not a happy camper with them told me to put things in a suitcase which we have a lot of.
So now I use a spare bedroom to hang my stuff up and use a duffel bag for everything else. but I did a bad thing a bought 2 huge lots of womens clothing off ebay and that had to go into 2 duffel bags and put in a truck bed storage box that came off truck I no longer have.

[Krisi]

My clothes are on hangers in two closets. They could be mistaken for my wife's clothes by a guest except for the quantity added to her clothes. Shoes and of course boobs, wig and butt padding are a different story so if there's a guest or two, they have to be hidden away. I put them in coolers in the garage the last time we had a house guest.

[JenniferR771]

Jennifer's girly things are in my outside garden shed about 12 feet from my back door. I always do what my wife says. It is a DADT relationship. I have about 11 plastic storage boxes and a few items in garment bags on a hanging clothes rack. She bought these for me. About 20 pair of shoes and 16 wigs. About 20 or 30 dresses. Cold in winter--gosh silicone gets so cold!

And its hot in summer--that cannot be good for makeup. I only froze some foundation once--usually it is OK.
I dress when she is out of the house. Or I am at support group meetings. Or at Saugatuck TG Weekend.

[Queen Bridget]

Oh no you don't, dear. Really..... no.
You want those those to jump out of their bag, run about proudly and loudly and display themselves from a flag pole. They will scream to The Muggles, "Here was the human being you never knew and never understood, and she was beautiful!!"

I hope that one day I have the courage to agree :daydreaming:

[Allison2006]

In the closet between my wife's stuff and my drab stuff.


Same for me.

[gender_blender]

2 closets, my bureau, a clothing rack, and a 5x10 storage unit.

[Susan Smith]

All my clothes, masculine and feminine, are just mixed up in my draws and hanging rails.

[Beverley Sims]

The same way any girl keeps her clothes.

In a wardrobe in the bedroom.

I have some mens trousers and shirts at one end along with a couple of pairs of shoes.

[kimberly c]

All my feminine things are stored in four closets around the house and more draws in the bedroom. Closets are shared with my wife.

[Elizabeth G]

I have most of my clothes in our front hall closet and my panties in my bureau drawer. I'll be moving my clothes into our closet when we finish an addition and add some much needed closet space.

[cindyinsatin]

Interesting comments...all. The one thing that is a bummer about having to move out of the closet in the spare bedroom is how nice and accessible everything is. Plus I can use the whole spare bedroom when I have the opportunity to dress. even has a dresser with a mirror in the room.

Ilene...I too am obsessive about how my things are organized into my closet. To have to pack things away in boxes will really mess with my sense of "place".

Cindy

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I tried to post a picture of my current closet situation, couldn't seem to get a picture to upload.

[CynthiaD]

I keep all my femme clothing in my closet. I've reduced my male clothing to the absolute minimum (a half a dozen or so items at the end of the rod) so I have more room for femme stuff. I have a chest of drawers for underwear, sleepware, jeans and tee shirts. There isn't a single item of male clothing in it.

I'm looking forward to the time when the items at the end of the rod go to Goodwill and I can wear normal clothing all the time.

[CONSUELO]

My femme clothing is all over the place, my closet, wife's closet, guest closet. Every so often I try to tackle this and throw out old clothes, of both varieties. But over time entropy reasserts itself and the relative chaos grows.

[marsha leanne]

interesting question.
I thought i did not have much until i started thinking about it all.
My 'immediate go to' clothes are all in a drawer under my side of the bed. In there are most of my 2 dozen panties , most of my bras, the current crop of tops, skirts, and full dresses. Then there is a large duffel under my desk in the office that has my makeup and jewelry, more panties, bras, tops, skirts and shoes. Add to that, several nightgowns, leisure wear and better wigs. then,... out in the shed i have a sealed trunk that has my 'out of season' clothing, more bras, panties, suits, casual wear and shoes. in another drawer under the bed are my forms, (multiple).
I have a couple of costume wigs in the office closet hanging in bags among my stage costumes. wow! i need a room!

I realized i have way more than i thought!

[daviolin]

Well let me see. My main closet is all fem clothes the closet in the tv room is half fem. I have old steamer trunk on the balcony which is all fem three large totes in the attic with my out of season wardrobe. Oh yes and my highboy is pretty much all fem. And no I don't have to hide my stuff when we have company over. Most everybody knows of my hobby. Life is good. Daviolin

[sometimes_miss]

Dressers and closet; I have several full size suitcases with combination locks, where I can move all my stuff and put it up in the attic crawlspace reasonably quickly should I need to hide it for any reason. But I have keyed doorknob locks on all my interior doors, that I keep certain ones locked whenever entertaining any guests, and have those nice hydraulic door closers on them, as well. And no, I haven't locked myself out of my house in decades.

[Sandra_Dodds]

I have two dresses and a leather skirt hidden inside suit bags within our walk-in robe, otherwise all of my clothes and hosiery are locked in a small cupboard in the garage. My collection of boots, heels and ballet flats are hidden in a couple of boxes also in the garage. Limited storage space and a DADT relationship stops me from buying more.

[candice.aihara]

My wardrobes sit alongside everything else. It's a nice system because it's rare for me to say inwardly 'i have nothing to wear' . . . lol

[Cherylgyno]

My clothes are either in a dresser drawer or in the closet. No secrets from my wife.

[Anna Stouf]

I have a large closet in my master bedroom. All of my dresses and skirts and loungers and other hanging items are in there. My panties, camisoles, hosiery, etc, are in drawers in the bureau, also in the bedroom.

I don’t have a wife, and I live alone, so all the space is mine and I do exactly as I want to.

[immike]

Cindy-I'm a closet crossdresser,my name is Michelle.I have a deadbolt lock on my den/office door,in my home,where I keep a stash of dresses,several skirts,tops/blouses,pantyhose&shoes/heels&I simply lock the door when company comes over.I began dressing
many years ago,using mothers clothes&began buying own stash online over time.No one knows my secret&mom&I are about the same size,so I could get away with trying on dresses,skirts,slacks,tops&shoes without stretching anything.Ocasionally,I would lift a
fresh pkg of pantyhose out of mothers 1000 pairs she kept in her drawer&I could dress in her wardrobe in the morning,after she left for work&I could practice walking in heels

[LindaAnne]

At this time my spouse has no idea of my dressing (which is now 40+ years) which is such a pain, but she is not an open-minded person. Many years ago hiding my girl things was easy but over the past couple years my collection has greatly expanded, omg! I now have a inside storage unit (one that is temperature controlled) that I rent. It's only 2 miles away and not far from work so it (so far) has worked out pretty well. It is a large enough unit that I have a stand up "closet" that I can put hanging items inside to keep my dresses looking nice. I also have several drawers (pink ones!) that I can put lingerie items in. I also have a 3-way mirror so I can try on my newest additions, and a small padded stool to sit on when I try on new shoes. I added a small rug so that my feet are comfy as I'm changing. It isn't what I want but for the situation I'm in, it works. For items used daily (like panties) I have a bag I keep in my trunk. Luckily my spouse isn't interested in my car trunk! Envious of all you other girls who have a better set-up, but wanted to provide another view on how to hide.

[Georgina]

I dwell on my own so I have femme clothes in every upstairs room. It is more difficult to find my male clothes.

[Leslie Langford]

Jennifer's girly things are in my outside garden shed about 12 feet from my back door. I always do what my wife says. It is a DADT relationship. I have about 11 plastic storage boxes and a few items in garment bags on a hanging clothes rack. She bought these for me. About 20 pair of shoes and 16 wigs. About 20 or 30 dresses. Cold in winter--gosh silicone gets so cold!

And its hot in summer--that cannot be good for makeup. I only froze some foundation once--usually it is OK.
I dress when she is out of the house. Or I am at support group meetings. Or at Saugatuck TG Weekend.

Yes, but where do you store the lawnmower and the snowblower. In your bedroom? ;) :eek: :heehee:

[Ceera]

When I started out, while I was experimenting with dressing while still married, I kept my panties in my dresser drawer, and my very small stash that consisted of a wig, a padded bra, one full female outfit (blouse and skirt) and 1" heel pump-style shoes I tucked into a gym bag on the bottom shelf in my home office.

Now that I am widowed and single, my girl clothes have totally taken over. I have three full-sized, 7 to 11 drawer dressers, plus a large walk-in closet, plus shoe organizers on two doors, and of that, only two small dresser drawers and 5' of the 40+ feet of closet rod space are male clothes! My bedroom clothing storage looks like a lady lives there, and she maybe keeps some of her 'gentleman friend's' clothes around for his convenience when visiting.

[wendy]

Before telling my wife, I would store all of Wendy's clothing items in small boxes in the tool room. Eventually the boxes overflowed and I stored them in a locked cabinet in the downstairs bedroom. I didn't have much make up at the time, just 2 lipsticks.

Since telling my wife, we've hired a closet organizer company to redo our bedroom and the spare bedroom closets, to maximize storage space. Wendy's clothes now take up all of the spare bedroom's closet, the dresses hang in our bedroom's closet, undergarments have taken up one large drawer space, and all the swimsuits take up another large drawer space + a large plastic bin. All my make up fit on half a shelf space in the washroom.

[Victoria_Winters]

I have two places: I have a large plastic storage box with a lock on it. It is the crawl space. It contains the stuff I don’t fit in anymore but I can’t bear to part with because I still keep the ridiculous idea in my head that I will lose enough weight to fit them again one day...My SO thinks it is full of knives and swords I used to collect when I was younger.... the other is a box in my home office in the closet. It contains the items that I wear often...When I studying I lock myself in so my family won’t bother me while I’m studying... and get dressed for the time...

[Pixie_94]

The only thing I can say is: Bags with zippers and combination locks for the win, super effective compared to a barely hidden box that anyone can open.

[t-girlxsophie]

Double Wardrobe and large chest of drawers with wigs on Styrofoam heads on top in my side of bedroom.Jackets and Coats hung up alongside my wife's in large hall cupboard.bags,shoes and boots in there too,due a good clear out

[Dana44]

I have a wardrobe that holds my heels and my shirts and dresses My panties are in my night stand and my bras are in a dresser drawer.

[pajeantv]

In a steel box buried next to the big oak tree

[patin]

I live in a really dry climate so regular bins work well for me. I have this one for all my lingerie and another larger bin for most of my other girly clothing. Dresses are hanging, of course. :)

I like that it's all easy to hide away if needed.

291231

[jo_ann]

I kept my stuff cramped in a giant cardboard box for as long as I can remember (20 years plus). Finally a couple years ago I finally bought a portable closet off amazon similar to this:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SJ25ABA/ref=dp_prsubs_1

It sits in a spare bedroom, and it's so nice to have everything separated and easy to find.