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Cristi
11-02-2006, 12:16 AM
I had enough fun on halloween to fill a book, but that would only sell one copy (and maybe one to my mother!) so I'll try to just hit the hilights of my full day out.

I took the day off from work and was all made up and out of the house by shortly after 10:00 wearing a long flowing floral skirt, black V neck blouse with C forms, LOTS of man-made cleavage :) suntan hose and black flats. After a stop for coffee and one in a mall store for some matching jewelry (pendant necklace and matching dangling earings) I decided to change into my 2nd outfit, a pink/black and white sleeveless dress that came to just above my knees and was very low cut in the chest. I also changed from the pantyhose to black tights.

I have big arms, so didn't want to wear the dress without anything over it. I stopped at a nearby T.J. Max to find some kind of light sweater and found just the thing. A very open long sleeved sweater that had just a few buttons at the bottom. When buttoned, it would frame the breasts nicely, without covering them, but at the same time cover my arms and shoulders. Perfect.

I brought it to a changing room to try on, and had something happen that made my day much nicer. They have mens and womans fitting rooms, managed by a desk. If you are a man, they give you a blue tag with the number of items you are trying on printed on it and usher you to the left. If you are a woman, you get a yellow number tag and direct you to the right.

Well... before I could even say anything, the woman saw me coming witn one item, took a YELLOW tag with a '1' on it from the pegs, handed it to me and directed me toward the woman's changing rooms!!

OK, I forget that I am trying to keep things short here, so lets just say I bought the sweater. Later on, the fact that I was doing well was confirmed when I spent some time in a small store before asking an associate for some help. She did a double take and told me that she had noticed me shopping for several minutes, but didn't suspect I wasn't a woman until I spoke! (I really have to work on my femme voice!)

I try to do something new every year. This year I found a small salon and stopped in witout an appointement and was actually able to get my hair curled! The woman was GREAT, chatting about fashion, the holiday, just about anything as she worked on my hair for 45 minutes. We even spoke about my outfit for a bit and she assured me that a bit of my bra showing was a fashion statement now, and many girls considered it almost mandatory. She obliged my reqests to take some before, during and after snapshots of me as she worked (photo below). She earned a darn good tip for her work :)

The rest of the day consisted of shopping, shopping and more shopping with a timeout for lunch, where I got the waitress to take another picture (2nd photo below). In all, I was out for about 14 hours, then had to tell my wife all about my adventures when I got home.

The final note, and the best one of the day, year and possibly decade: Being out for quite a few hours (and stopping to get several cups of coffee) I naturally had to stop to use the restrooms in various places (I always tried to find 'gender neutral' or single occupancy restrooms to avoid any controversy).

Well, toward the end of the evening I availed myself of one near the entrance to a mall and was walking back across the dark parking lot back toward my car when a car driving past me tooted its horn twice to get my attention, making me almost jump out of my shoes! As the car pulled beside me, the woman in the drivers seat rolled down the passenger's window and leaned across the seat. "Miss, your skirt..." she said. I was still startled by the horn and a little confused about what was going on. I must have looked like a deer in caught in the headlights! She saw that I didn't understand what she was saying so she repeated "Your skirt, in the back..." not really finishing the sentence. I finaly understood what she was trying to say and reached around to the back of my dress to find that I had snagged a bit of it into the back of my tights when in the bathroom! I quickly smoothed things out and tried to say 'Thank you' in as convincing a voice as I could without giving myself away. She gave me a small smile, rolled the window up and drove away. All I could think of was that I was glad that I had visited the restroom on the way OUT of the mall, instead of leaving it to enter the busy bright mall hallways!

Well, all of the above and a LOT more made for a pretty full day. I'd say that that is all until next year, but after last Friday's outing (my first time out NOT on halloween) maybe I won't have to wait 365 days to do it all again!

NatalieH
11-02-2006, 01:59 PM
Well, all of the above and a LOT more made for a pretty full day. I'd say that that is all until next year, but after last Friday's outing (my first time out NOT on halloween) maybe I won't have to wait 365 days to do it all again!

Hi, Cristi,

Looking good, girl! Looking sooo good, you definitely don't want to wait another year. Great story, glad you had such a good time. And yes, it's addictive, isn't it? Even tho my dressing this past week was all under the cover of Halloween, it was so great I can't wait to get out there again, just with a little more caution about where I go.

Natalie

Eileen
11-02-2006, 02:28 PM
Cristi surely you are out enfem often! You look so natural. I can totally understand why the SA thought you were a gg! Tell me you are planning another outing enfem soon!


Since August, I have been doing about 80% of my shopping enfem and I have never felt better. The only thing better than getting out enfem often would be to live f/t as a woman.

Eileen

SherriePall
11-02-2006, 02:36 PM
Cristi -- Thanks for sharing that wonderful story. Glad you had a good time out. Your pics show a woman to me.

Nikki A.
11-02-2006, 04:24 PM
Cristi, you look great and looks like you had a great time.
To all of you who wonder if you could pass, I just want to say that I make one ugly big woman and yet most people who I ran across during the day did not even realize that I was a man in a skirt( see my halloween post).
If you dress appropriate you may be surprised, people see what they expect to see.

Cristi
11-02-2006, 08:55 PM
Cristi, you look great and looks like you had a great time.
To all of you who wonder if you could pass, I just want to say that I make one ugly big woman and yet most people who I ran across during the day did not even realize that I was a man in a skirt( see my halloween post).
If you dress appropriate you may be surprised, people see what they expect to see.

Thank you.

I agree with the "people see what they expect to see" statement. Most people never really register the people around them, they are too much wrapped up in their own little worlds. And when people DO look...well, there are a lot of real GGs out there that are no beauty queens. You don't have to be 'pretty' to pass, you just need to give off enough cues that say 'female' instead of 'male' to tip the balance in your favor.

Phoebe Reece
11-02-2006, 10:58 PM
Way to go Cristi. That was quite a day's adventure. You present a very feminine image, so (as you found out) as long as you conduct yourself as a lady, people will treat you as one. I am sure that now you have had a couple of great outings in a short time, more will be in your future.

I like your outfit. It all goes well together. However, if you are trying to minimize the visual impact of something you should choose a dark color. If you want your arms to look smaller, it's better to go with a black, brown, or navy blue sweater. That was a tip I picked up at a seminar at SCC back in September.

Cristi
11-02-2006, 11:03 PM
I like your outfit. It all goes well together. However, if you are trying to minimize the visual impact of something you should choose a dark color. If you want your arms to look smaller, it's better to go with a black, brown, or navy blue sweater. That was a tip I picked up at a seminar at SCC back in September.

Thanks for the advice. For something I didn't give much thought to as I put it together, it all worked pretty well! You can't see he necklace and earrings in the photo, but their color really goes well with the pink and black of the dress and my white/grey hair.

You can catch a bigger version of the photos in this thread (near the bottom) to see the jewelry better: http://www.crossdressers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43732

I agree with you on the color of the sweater. I was looking for someting darker that would still go with the rest of the outfit, but they only things they had in my size were in white or brown... and the brown just didn't work with the dress. Navy blue would have been perfect, but alas....

NatalieH
11-03-2006, 01:59 PM
You don't have to be 'pretty' to pass, you just need to give off enough cues that say 'female' instead of 'male' to tip the balance in your favor.

I'm satisfied if I give off enough feminine cues to make them wonder - they can decide what they want, I just want there to be that little bit of doubt...

Natalie