I've been watching a lot of 80's videos lately and am I wrong or did EVERYONE look like a chic!? I'm not TG/CD...I'm a freaking 80's Rock Star !?
https://youtu.be/Hphwfq1wLJs
Now where did I put my keys to the time machine? 😳
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I've been watching a lot of 80's videos lately and am I wrong or did EVERYONE look like a chic!? I'm not TG/CD...I'm a freaking 80's Rock Star !?
https://youtu.be/Hphwfq1wLJs
Now where did I put my keys to the time machine? 😳
Dustin Hoffman did...
LOL Where I lived nobody dressed like Rod Stewart in that video.
In 1977, on the way home from school, a girl asked me if I was a boy or a girl. Yep, trendsetter, that's me!
No. In the late 90's. In my 50's!:heehee:
70's you mean? check out "Mud" and "Sweet" - both bands have a crossdresser in the line up. xx
The early 80s is when I finally came out of the crossdressing closet. 70s glam rock and crossdressing had much overlap and definitely influenced my style at the time.
Especially in the 80's. I was in my CD prime then. ;):)
Tom Hanks, Peter Scollari, and Me. Looks like I was in good crossdressing company.
This is when I first became serious about dressing. I purchased my very first long black full lace dress then. It was absolutely beautiful. Maybe the prettiest dress I've ever owned. With matching shawls in silver, gold and white. I wish I still had it. It went in my first purge. Along w/ some exquisite lingerie. And some other beautiful dresses and gowns. And hose and shoes. And make up.
I'm depressing myself thinking about it...oh my.
Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving,
Kate
Ahhh...shoulder pads and stirrup pants...I miss the 80's! lol
OK! How about the late 1940's and 50's! Christene Jorgensen roamed the world then.
The 80's were just another decade, with different style clothing that I wore.
Since I began in the 50's, rocked my long locks in the 60's and 70's, discoed through the 80's and made it through the 90's, the turn of the century and now the 2010's they all seem like just another change of clothes.
Now I no longer worry about be "fashionable", I just wear MY clothes....bring on the 2020's.
The 80's is when it all started for me, took me 25 years to refine my dressing and another 5 to figure out that I am a transgender person.
My divorce took place in 1986, and the ex split with the clothes on her back...literally...
I was left with a WEALTH of clothing, including all of her sexy stuff, and she had tons. As she was a size 10-12, I could have worn most of it. However, my next-door neighbor was a horny creature who had eyes for me (I never acted upon it because she was married...longer story here), and she immediately suggested I have a yard sale and get rid of everything in order to pay the bills of being a (now) single parent. I sold damned near everything, but kept a couple blouses and a couple bras. Can you believe they STILL smell like her? I wish I'd kept a few more things, but I've more than made up for it with way too many purchases. I have no intention of ever purging, but I might have to sell down in order to empty out the two rooms stacked to the ceiling with clothes.
I had hair modeled after the "BeeGee's". Way past my ears and down on my shoulders. Blow dryer every time I'm out of the shower. I didn't stand out because everyone was doing the same thing.
I could blow my hair out and look pretty with my own hair. Wish I had that hair today.
Like Sheila I had long hair, dressed up I looked like a thirty year old woman. Attractive to boot.
Was into lots of parties then as the rot had not set in and I still looked good.
The company I worked for in the 80's was pretty conservative, so long hair was not allowed. Drat.
But that did not stop me from starting to buy wigs and to dress. Some clothing could still be acceptable today!
I use the excuse of growing up in the 80's as a reason of my CDing lol..I absolutely love the fashon of that decade.
The shiny tracksuits/shellsuits from the late 80s were like a gateway drug to CDing for me. A girl in my class had a nice blue one and I used to fantasise about wearing it. The material looked lovely. Then my mom bought me one, pretty much the same color ( they were unisex ). Loved the glossy shine and often stared at myself in the mirror as I wore it. It had a satin look but not a satin feel, though - kind of disappointing.
So I had to find something silkier... and next thing I knew I was getting my kicks from my mom's satin pjs and blouses. :)
1985 about a year after I graduated. I moved out on my own and started wearing only clothing meant for a woman.
I'll be turning 50 next month, so it's been a very long time in those clothes and I've never looked back.
The 80s were...interesting...for me.
I was supposed to have died in l980 of a heart condition, but somehow survived. Even my docs aren't sure why I made it. Soon thereafter I was married to the ex, an insatiable trailer park trash blonde. For the five plus years of my marriage, we did it 5-6,000 times. Non-stop. In all the years before and since, less than a hundred times. During those five years I was blatantly hetero. In the years before and since, I've been pretty much asexual leaning strongly on my feminine side. The music was pretty bad in the 80s, and the ex had MTV blaring 24/7. I really, really like the Big Hair aspect, and I really like that it was the last decade...at least the first half...of easy-to-treat if at all STDs.
Started my "going out" in the very early 80's.Didn't know about the term CDer or any other for that matter, I was so young. As I type this I have a sort of "big hair" thing going on, don't ask why. Than the big purge and deep denial for so long, until just recently coming to terms with my gender fluidity and once again enjoying my CDing, but that's a story for another time.
I too am gender fluid.
I have a vague recollection of trying on some of my mother's clothes a couple of times...nylons and high-heels specifically...but the first time I ever really dressed was in my ex's clothes after she split...and that was only a couple of times until around 2002, when I hit my first full-fledged CD moments, complete with nail polish and lipstick, etc. Then a few years off again, until about 2008 or so.
I first went out dressed in the late 60s. Loved the 60s look way more than I did the 80s.
I started mine in the mid seventies.. that's when I started getting my own clothes but I guess I really started on three sixties (
That was actually 78 that Rod Stewart came out ( music nerd alert) LOL.......Now I know why this song always used to make me tingle when I would hear my mom play it on her record player when I was supposed to be in bed sleeping but secretly dancing under the covers. Donna Summer was a big one too....gee.....thanks MOM this is all your fault xoxo
Remember that what you see in the entertainment world is mostly fiction. Even KISS took off their make up once they were out of the public eye.
spent the first half of the 80's totally on the other side. Spent the next 1/4 of it back and forth, spent the last part of it back in drab...
Well I started in the 50s. In the 80s I started wearing blouses openly. As well as women's sweaters. The western craze helped with the blouses and the shoulder pads helped with the more fem styles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f68VXKMZT1QQuote:
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OMG, that was sooo offensive and like totally rude 'n s***t! 😢
That was soooo freaking funny!!! 😂😂😂 I love Seth McFarlane!
no clue what you're talkin bout???? looks normal to me ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tI1_KlO6xI
I did. Was my first time living away from home, was spring/summer of 1980.
Remember buying my first dress from a store in Queens, NY.
As I remember, this was a teens store that carried sizes up to 11.
And a size 11 fit! Been a real long time since that was the case
Funniest part was, it wasn't till after I left New York that I found the paper that had ads in the back for stores that catered to TS/CD.
Probably a good thing, would have spent my whole paycheck.
Deb great one! I think we have come a little from there
Thanks Robin, for opening this thread. It brought me back to another time and another culture that I might have enjoyed, if things had been different.
Some folks say that the Eighties killed Glam Rock. Instead, I think that it simply lost its shock value. The Glam Metal bands of that era just seemed to melt away. By the late eighties, androgyny in music had simply lost its chic.
Anyway, the stage had been set for the crossdressing Hair Bands of the Eighties a decade earlier. Their roots in the outlandish evolved from the avant-garde, bisexual chic of the Seventies and the birth of the Glam Rock bands.
Let’s not forget that Elvis donned his first, white jumpsuit in 1969.
In the early Seventies, though, most of the American Rock scene was still powered by the Rock legends of the Woodstock era. Their understated dress, and their nothing-fancy, Hippie personas might have begun to wear a little thin. Their music was more art than Pop, leaving the stage set for a new era in popular culture. That’s when a few British and American Glitter bands jumped in and changed the landscape of Rock music for the next two decades.
British Rocker Marc Bolan of T-Rex had taken to glitter and boas soon after David Bowie had introduced his Ziggy Stardust persona in '71, I believe. Almost immediately, groups like Mott the Hoople, Mud, Roxy Music, and The Sweet were racing to the top of the charts. Even American Rocker Suzie Quatro had become more famous in Europe than back home in the US.
Meanwhile, in America, Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground, The New York Dolls, Iggy Pop and White Witch were adding a more edgy feel, introducing Glam Rock into the Heavy Metal, Proto-Punk and Psychedelic genres. Hard Rocker, Alice Cooper, even adopted Marc Bolan’s boa – Except Alice’s was alive!
Glam had become a full-fledged member of the Seventies Pop Scene. Even the Rolling Stones dipped a toe into the world of Glam while changing little more than their haircuts. However, the Disco-like stylings of the Some Girls album probably helped. Other super groups of the Seventies that adopted the over-the-top, Glam look were Kiss, Elton John, Queen, Abba and the Bay City Rollers. These were varied and diverse musical styles, all sharing the larger-than-life, flamboyant makeup and clothing styles of the Glam Rock period.
By the 1980’s, Glam’s androgynous look and extravagant performances had become so infused in the Pop culture that androgyny was no longer Chic – And, it would soon become passe’.
Personally, I never took to this sub-culture. I was still stuck in the Blues and Classical based Rock styles begun in the Sixties. By the Seventies, I did follow some of the Super Groups, but my heart did and still does lie with the blue jeans, T-shirts and wailing guitars of the Album Rock era. But, to be honest, circumstances left me few choices.
As a little kid in the early sixties, I learned that anything associated with an alternative gender identity could get someone into serious trouble. The notion that a man was a man was beaten into me. Little boys didn’t do those kinds of things. So, from that point on, I was bound and determined not to give in. If that meant ignoring the possibility of dressing up and having fun, that was okay. I had to be a man, and real men didn’t do those things.
Fifty years of continuous practice, and look where that got me!
Oh, by the way, that line, “some folks say” is my favorite line from Fox News. That’s the line they use when they want to introduce something into a discussion that has nothing to do with verifiable fact or evidence. They just pull it out of their collective ***es. So, no, I never really heard anyone say that the ‘80’s killed Glam Rock. I just thought it sounded like a good hook. So, please, forgive my lapse in journalistic ethics – If you can.
Wow, great analysis of the rock scene Jaylah, good points ☺
Thanks, Robin. I tried. I love music, especially the music I grew up with, and older music that I was introduced to by my older friends and family. But, I do enjoy the opportunity to talk about it almost as much as I do listening to it.
I hear ya, ahh the formitive years! Never understood why my parents liked Lawrence Welk...I get it now LOL 😉
Okay... That made me laugh. Maybe I was lucky. My parents listened to Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughn and Charlie Parker. So, I reckon, they thought Lawrence Welk was pretty lame, too.
The 80's were my favorite decade for women's fashion for several reasons, most of all because this was women wore pantyhose quite often and with most everything. Being a pantyhose fetishist, I was in heaven.
However, this was also my single days, and I dated a lot, and got my fill of legs and nylons so I rarely dressed. Also, this was still back in the pre-internet days, and at that time I still had no idea there was anybody else who shared my interests. I was a straight man wanting to wear women's clothing, and I had no idea I wasn't alone. That fact had me questioning myself all the time as to what is wrong with me. That guilt tore me up, as even though I was getting plenty of satisfaction from females, I still couldn't shake the urge to want to dress up like them.
Thankfully the 2000's came along and I discovered there were many, many other men who were in the same boat as I was. In retrospect, had I known about CDing as I know today, I would have taken a LOT more advantage of the opportunities of those days!
Oh gosh! Yes , Big hair, shoulder pads and pantyhose were worn all the time!!!!!!!!!
Hi Robin:hugs:, I've been in this program for almost 69yrs., Yes I passed through the 80s'
and I may still have something from that era in the back of the closets
I'm sure that I got rid of those awful looking shoes.~~~~~~~~~~~...:daydreaming:...
Me too! My parents were out of town for a few days and I (high school student) used my time wisely: purchased some heels, applied some makeup, borrowed some of my sister's clothing wore a scarf on my head and went to a 7-11 type convenient store at night. Browsed the magazine rack, Cosmo and some other women's magazines and then high-tailed it home. Still can't believe I did it. I still remember it like it was yesterday (over 30 thirty years ago). The scariest part was after I came home and parked the car, a car pulled into my driveway. I froze, thinking that my parents or sisters had returned early. I thought I was going to have a heart attack. Nope, just someone using my driveway to turn around. Thank God!Quote:
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Yes, how about that? I was born in the 40s so my formative years were in the 40s & 50s. I still adore the fashions from those years - like the 'New Look'. In fact, with the latest revival of that period, I still, wear them and will be going to a Christmas party at our local CD/TV Lynx Ladies in a couple of weeks in my new black Audrey Hepburn look-alike, complete with full skirt and petticoat.Quote:
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The 80s was a great decade not just for fashions but music too and the memories of it all are great too. It felt as though everything was beginning to free up. The nineties felt like the opposite - all downbeat and miserable.
Jaylah, tell me you were not the least bit effected by a young Stevie Nicks suddenly appearing on the scene dripping (beautifully) in black chiffon and lace?
What memories...
Kate
what about the 70;s only change as time change love being in thongs now
I did, panties everyday 86 to 88, bra and or camisole during winter months as well. Got my first job in 86 and made good use of Wal-Marts layaway. By the time I graduated in 88 I had 20 bras and over 200 pairs of panties, a bikini, a one piece swimsuit, 10 or 12 camisoles, a dress, 3 or 4 skirts and 5 or 6 blouses. Ladies at Wal-Mart were very friendly and helpful, helped me find the right sizes in everything.
Went from Wally world to McRaes and Parisi an and started getting nicer clothes.
It's fun and always has been.
I don't know Orchid, I'll bet you still have a pair or two! 😉Quote:
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