The origins.

[angelfire]

I was just curious really. Who or how did the terms "En Femme" or "Drab" come to mean what they do to CDs? Where did it originate, who started using it? Or are these questions totally unanswerable?

I realize what "En Femme" means, as it is french, but I am just curious how it became attatched to the 'scene'

[tekla west]

Everything sounds better in French don't know where it began but sometime in the early 90s with the rise of the net culture. Drag comes from the same place that drag does, old stage directions.

[Karren H]

I was just curious really. Who or how did the terms "En Femme" or "Drab" come to mean what they do to CDs? Where did it originate, who started using it? Or are these questions totally unanswerable?

I realize what "En Femme" means, as it is french, but I am just curious how it became attatched to the 'scene'


Drab - Dressed as Boy
Drag - Dressed as Girl

Love Karren

[angelfire]

I knew what they meant. I just wanted to know how they became attatched to crossdressers. Like, how did they decide on "en femme" over the other possible terms.

Seems like a pointless question I know, but I am just curious.

[Satrana]

There was a CD publication called Enfemme back in the mid 1980s which probably popularized the term.

[Kate Simmons]

Like Tekla said, everything sounds better in French. Oui ,OUi Mme.? Ericka Kay