So Time consuming!!

[Janereed]

Hey everyone,

Does anyone else find this themselves? The more I get into crossdressing, the more time it is taking up! I can spend hours online shopping for that particular top or the like, then wishing away days so it arrives more quickly..

Its funny, I used to get frustrated at how long it took a GG to get ready, but now I have nothing but admiration for them. For male version, its just whatevers clean... But dressing as a female, I usually try on most of my bras before Im happy, same goes for panties, boylegs or normal cut?? Then I will try on most of my clothes, which is alot now, until Im happy. This can take ages.

Then its time for makeup! Im still buying makeup, I dont have much, just mascara, some bronzer, lipstick. Im buying heaps at the moment, should get it all next week, I shudder at how much time I will spend playing with it all...

All of this can take hours, Im sure If I rushed I could do it faster, but since I dont go out in public dressed, I find myself just taking my time, alot of time.
I like to think its because Im still relativly new at full on dressing, but I cant see a point in time when it wont take up alot of hours...I think perhaps I enjoy it so much while Im doing it, the hrs just whittle away. Because I dont have a set time, I just space everything out.

Im gaining a really deep appreciation of what its like being a women, Ive since stopped nagging my GG friends to hurry up and get ready, because I now realise how slow/time consuming it can be. Guys really have got it easy,
unless theyre a crossdresser! :love:

Does anyone else find the time factor frustrating?

[Phyliss]

Barely enought time for anything. What to wear? Oh, what to wear?
I can understand your feelings. Even dressing in drab I'm finding myself becoming my choosey as to what I want to wear that day.

[Lisa Golightly]

Actually I have male friends who take a hell of a lot longer to get ready than any woman i know. One, I no longer see as we're in different parts of the globe, used to take so long I'd take a book or magazine with me when picking him up from his house... true, true, true.

I can do the full slap and hair in 45 minutes following a 1hr bath, so on average for a glitzy night out say 2hr 25mins... he'd take 6hrs!!!!

Day to day it's an hour from falling out of bed and half drowning in the shower to putting on mascara and lipstick in the traffic jam.

[Kate Simmons]

Nah, I'm not that fussy. After I shave, it takes me 30 minutes tops until I'm either ready ready to leave or just putter around the house. It takes a little longer if I'm going out on a date or something but I'm still not that fussy. Ericka Kay

[Caitlintgsd]

If I rush it I can get dressed and ready in 1 1/4 hours. That's not counting picking through the closet for the perfect outfit to match my mood. "Let's see, boho, goth, domme, casual denim, evening wear..." Too many moods and a damn closet to match.

[Karren H]

I agree with Ericka, and all I need is 20 minutes to transform....just-in-time crossdressing!! But I do spend a lot of time shopping, enfemme or in drab....and way too much time here!! :)

Love Karren

[Janereed]

I agree with Ericka, and all I need is 20 minutes to transform....just-in-time crossdressing!! But I do spend a lot of time shopping, enfemme or in drab....and way too much time here!! :)

Love Karren


Thats kind of what I was talking about, all the aspects add up time wise, but for me dressing is slow, I could be ready asap if I needed to I think.

[Calliope]

Practice makes ... er, speedier. There's a difference between everyday and 'going out.' Sometimes it's fun to put on some tunes and take a while, like on a weekend, the 'Nair day' or the shave-the-body day maybe, and then there's just what it requires on an average day. Having little kids has taught me a lot about what's the absolute minimum and what's the something extra. But, yeh, if it takes more than an hour, I get frustrated. Could be worse, back in my bohemian days, it could take three hours to put together a paragraph of prose.

[Penny]

I agree with Ericka, and all I need is 20 minutes to transform....just-in-time crossdressing!! But I do spend a lot of time shopping, enfemme or in drab....and way too much time here!! :)

Love Karren
Ditto!

[Karren H]

Thats kind of what I was talking about, all the aspects add up time wise, but for me dressing is slow, I could be ready asap if I needed to I think.


And I too could take forever to dress if I wanted to but usually don't have the time.....someone might need to use the public restroom. Hehehe.

But all the extra time assocoated with our "hobby" isn't really a bad thing as long as it doesn't impact the other things going on in your life. I always try to combine things too...need to go to Home Depot to get something for the latest project, pop into Kohls or Burlington next door and check out dresses also.. Get online to check my stocks or do some online banking...check crossdressers, my 360 site, URNotAlone, my email...

Love Karren

[JoAnnDallas]

I have so little time to dress, now that my wife is retired, that I have learned to do my makeup and dress all in about 20 minutes time. My wife leaves early three days a week for water arobics, so I have about 45 minutes those mornings before I have to leave for work. When she leaves, I already have my panties, pantyhose, and bra on under my drab clothes. So it only takes a couple of minutes to shed those items and get down to doing my makeup and redressing. Then on those few times where she will stay over at my sisters house to help her the next day, then I'll take around an hour or so getting dressed all the way.

[Stephenie S]

Seems pretty normal to me. As you get more practice you get quicker. If you had to do it every morning, everyday, you would soon get PDQ.

Lovies,
Stephenie

[julie w]

I find dressing going on line and shopping very entertaining .and enjoyable
I find it hard when visitors stay with me ,it cuts into my main hobby

[Charleen]

Sorry, but I don't have time to respond to this thread. Love and xxx, Lily

[Gisele]

When I am at home and not going out. I just shower and throw on the forms, bra, panties and jeans and a top. But when going out as Beth for a drive. It's not that easy.

It's forms, bra, panties, then a skirt....no, not this one...this one....no it don't look right...

OK, how about my slacks.....ok!........

No.....

Jeans...yea, that it but.......

not this pair.....yes these are clean...I will wear them instead.

then it the same for my tops.

Now come the make up! Jeesh.........1/2 hour

then the jewerly then the wig.

By the time I am ready my fiance is too tired for a drive.:eek:

OH well, next time.

[Diane098]

I find that now my kids are gone and I have started to think about dressing more I pay attention to my looks more. It definatly takes more time to get ready for work, Shower, shaving everything the hair seems to grow to fast,then its on to mosturizing etc. I LOVE it!

[Eugenie]

Even though I don't take that much time to do my makeup and dress, I do spend a lot more time to dress as a woman than I do to dress as a man.

This is also the case for shopping for clothes.

I just hate to spend time buying man clothes, my wife has to DRAG me (pun intended :D ) in the male section of department stores. While when I shop for women clothes I can spend literally hours in department stores, looking for the right bra, the top that will match the skirt I have at home or the makeup product that I miss...

Note that this has a good effect for my wife's shopping as I can stay with her as long as she wants in the women section, I don't mind staying with her:heehee:.

She knows that I enjoy being among women clothes and looking at them. This is perhaps as far as she will go to let me enjoy my feminine side when I'm with her... But unfortunately for me, she doesn't like me to shop for women clothes when she's with me. That would help me a lot as she mentionned a few times that she wouldn't buy the sort of clothes I have in my closet (She's seen them occasionaly).

Back on the subject, I spend way to much time for activities tied to my X-Dressing...

:hugs:
Eugenie

[Monica Elena]

Does anyone else find the time factor frustrating?

It's time invested, not wasted.