So, how many years now?

At first I thought about maybe 55 or so but I definitely started at about 10 borrowing mom's bras so that makes it....

59 years!? OMG!

How 'bout you?

50 years?the last few years have been the best!

Carla, have you beat by at least 2 or 3 years... also started for me at about 10 years old when I found a gorgeous angora sweater dress and corselette/girdle in a cedar chest in the basement. To this day i have no idea why those two particular items were stored away with a bunch of random papers.

Since I started at I think 5 yrs old, that makes about 60 yrs for me. I know others will beat that, but still that?s a long time!

I'm not certain ... 65+ years?

Started when I was 4 or 5, been dressing on and off since, over 40 years now! Where has all that time gone?

Dressing? Somewhere around 65.
Feelings? even longer -I'd say all my life, or at least ever since I knew there was a difference.

Hi Carla :hugs:, Probably 77 years Now,

About age 4 or 5 with mom's nylons & Heels, >Orchid**O:daydreaming:O**

I would say around 62 years, I started with my Moms bras and OBGs. It really has been fun!

65 years started when I was 5

likely 63 years

I started young with my mom?s things then on and off through the years. Being in military made it tough at times but pretty regularly for the past ten years since I retired

I am 59 and started around 4 or 5.
Sara

+/-60 years. Also like Evadan, last few years have been the best.

Four. Unless you count a few skirmishes with my wife's discarded pantyhose when I was in my mid-forties, I didn't start until I was 69. I'm 73 now.

54 years for me....started with Mom's bra's and pantyhose when I was about 7.

65'ish years.

North of 50 years for me; hard to pin down a start date per se. First thoughts were around age 4 or 5, first action some years later.

Kris; "skirmishes with my wife's discarded pantyhose" :lol: that's hysterical! I can just picture...

Well I started in grade school so approximately 55 years. I guess the old saying once a crossdresser always a crossdresser is spot on ladies.

Well I played dressup from around the age of 5, but my first ever full dress as a girl, and my epiphany occurred age 13. I will be making my 75th birthday in March this year, so you could say 62 years.

I'm at ~58 years, from first memory of trying something on and going .. Ohhhhhh!

Who knew how deep that Rabbit hole was!

I went out fully dressed at age 25. Then stayed closeted for 20 years, then let it all out and haven't looked back the last 25 years. Hugs, Michelle

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To this day i have no idea why those two particular items were stored away with a bunch of random papers.

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Danielle, maybe that was the stash for another person in the house who dressed :heehee:

I agree with Colleen, I was thinking the same thing
Maybe the Apple did not fall far from the tree

I first tried on my then wifes bra when I was about 25. That's 53 years ago but I think I can discount that as a bit of a pervy thing, because I never touched another feminine article until 30 years later. Yes, I discovered panties, or rather femme thongs, in 2003 when I was 56. Now at the age of 78, I wear more femme clothes, have more femme clothes than man clothes, and feel better for it.

First, I would have to define what a cross dresser is to get a proper estimate of the beginning of time. When I encountered my mother's nylon full slips drying on a washline strung in our apartment I loved the feel of the nylon fabric. It was like none of my boy clothes. I use to fondle the slips until I had the nerve to take them down, slip into them for a quick feel and then rehang them. I had no desire to be a girl. It was just the feel of the nylon. Then, I expanded to trying on her nylon nightgowns that were kept in a laundry bag in the closet in my bedroom that I shared with my older brother. I would yank it out of the bag, don it for a while and then replace it. It wasn't until puberty and raging hormones that I started raiding my mother's dresser drawer and getting into her bras, granny panties, girdles & stocking and slips. If the beginning is those hanging full slips, then life began over seventy years ago.

I was around 11 or 12 so 41 years

Started feeling bras and panties in the store at about 5years old. Started wearing both bras and panties at ten years old now almost 61 still wearing them daily

60 years since the first time I fully dressed

Hi Carla, I'm pretty sure I was around 5yo when I first tried on a dress. I have absolute clarity about the feeling it gave me and that propelled me to be a lifelong CD. So that puts me around 55 years.

Traci

The early times of my exposure are all a little vague. I know I tried some of my sisters panties and certainly felt my mom?s stuff fairly young. I remember some early fantasies somewhere in there too. I?m going to go with age 10, plus or minus a bit. Been 62 years then with this fog rolling in and out.

Started with my mom's panties, girdles, bras and nylons when I was 13. Now 70 so 57 years and counting with a lot of ups and downs over the decades.

69 or 70

More than I care to remember…but seriously. Just shy of 69 years, from the age of 3 based on my recollection and what I have gleaned from siblings.

54 years. Started with mom’s bras at 12 years old and I’m now 66.

I started at 3 or 4, so a minimum of 59 years.

Close to 65 yrs. for me with the last 33 months being the best.

Growing up during the 1960s and 1970s I lived in a house full of women. Needless to say there were times the Sears Catalog came to life. Throughout my life the feelings and desires to dress would be and flow so I would dabble a little here and a little there. But never anything official and I was always able to put it away. Somewhere in my late 50s the dam burst and I started dressing and nearly 6 years later, at 62, I'm going stronger than ever.

Started around 8 or 9. I'll be 69 in April. So a long time.

Three years... after 45 years of thinking it would never happen 😉

Just shows you never know when the urge might creep up on you... and there's no going back when it does.

I do remember when my sister left her pantyhose on my bed post and curiosity got the best of me and I had a field day with them. I just can't put an age on it. I'm going to think about eight that would make it 53yrs ago.

First time in pantyhose was about 55 years ago, but first time in a dress and pantyhose was about 50 years ago.

1st time I was 11 years old so 50 years.

Too far back to remember the actual date but I'd say 50+ years ago.

45 years and counting!

55 or 56 years. My earliest distinct memory is around age 9 or 10. I kept a pair of black panties from one of my sisters under the mattress that I would slip on in bed. I loved to feel the lace with my fingers. I don't think I was getting to the common end result yet, however.

The best memory, though, was when I was 11. One day, I had the house to myself; somehow everyone had someplace to be, and I knew it would be late in the afternoon before anyone returned. I went into the bedroom of my 18-year-old sister and spent hours there trying on at least half her clothes - bras, panties, dresses, skirts, nightgowns, go-go style boots, etc. I was in heaven!

Don't remember when I first started putting on my mom's bras and slips that were in the laundry hamper in the bathroom (and then grduated eventually to her lingerie drawer when I was home alone).
Probably sometime between the ages of 10 and 15, so that's 50+ years now

Years? I haven't finished even the first one yet! :D

51 years ago I tried on a pair of my mum?s tights which changed my life forever.

I remember being a 12 to 13 year old when it all started with my sisters clothes in the house.

It really kicked in once I got married. But in the last 5 years is when I decided to dollup and let my wife see me and go outside the house.