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So I've got a couple of days away with work and will definately dress for dinner but my journey will be in a more mixed 'but male' presentation as the weather is so bad as to render my prefered looks unsuitable and I dont have the outfits for the storm outside. Have others encounted this issue?
I find it easier to feel dressed in the cooler parts of the year. I present male most everyday, so I do not shave past my face, nor do I get my brows done. In the winter I can wear tights and a skirt. Add in wnter coat, boots. I feel much more likely to pass. I don't feel the same in a summer dress since I chose not to remove all my body hair. My dressing tends to hibernate in the summer.
When I get home today, I have a few errands to run. I will do those enfemme, casual look.
I do love when I do a short business trip and get a chance to get out. Enjoy.
Lucy, I actually prefer the cooler weather as I am less likely to sweat and therefore don't have makeup problems.
If you don't have any winter outfits, yes, it's "too wintery to dress". However, you have the option to remedy the situation. Winter is the time when long sleeves, longer dresses, tights or pants can help to cover male features. Few of us can pull off a sundress.
Location, location, location. This will be the second morning in a row that I have to put on snowmobile suit and pack boots and clear the driveway. I'll be groomed and wearing a favorite pair of panties under my sweats and outdoor gear but it's still not very conducive to going on a stroll. The wind picks up this afternoon and we are too rural to have sidewalks and all the GG's out for a stroll will be walking with their backs to the wind. I would imagine there are other locations where a walk would be more pleasant than mine.
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PS, dadt and limited storage space keeps me a captive of my circumstances. When I get ideas about going for a winter stroll en femme reality slaps me in the face. I have to accept my reality as I don't have any choice. Going out in public is complicated, in the winter it's impossible. Partial dressing and wishing are the only options for many of us.
Canadian Winter is best to dress, then I can easily conceal my Brassiere, Spring and Fall is nice too I can wear Pantyhose.
Again, location location location. It was in the sixties here the other day.
Yep and I solved it by going shopping.Quote:
Originally Posted by lucy_miller
wearing dresses and skirts is definitely the core part of crossdressing. I would do it throughout winter despite the cold. In fact, with all that wig and bra, summer is actually way too hot.
Not really. Realizing I wouldn’t want to have my dressing confined by seasons, I set about building a year-round wardrobe. Or at least have an option for when it’s cold or wet.
Lucy,
I'm also in the UK , so finding suitable clothes is perfectly possible . I must admit I've built up a selection of jackets and coats along with scarves and gloves and also a selection of boots and accepted wearing thicker tights .
Weather certainly is a huge factor in being able to wear what I like. My biggest problem is that it is too hot most of the time. A wig and all the other clothing causes me to sweat easily in warm weather so I like it to be cooler. Of course it is 80F where I live today so cooler is relative. If I had to go out in something like the blizzard of 78 in Boston again, I would just say forget it with crossdressing That was crazy and partly why I live in the south. It was one too many blizzards for me.
Sandi
I don't see how anyone can stay warm in women's clothes , they are made for tempting not warmth
It's never too cold, (or warm), to dress fem if u really want to, Lucy!:battingeyelashes:
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When I first buying clothes it was a lot easier to find summer clothes that I liked. After 2 years I finally found a jacket I liked. I have a couple booties and other shoes suitable for winter weather.
And rhonda, I totally agree about women's clothes are so thin most tops are require at least 2 layers for modesty's sake. Never had a noticeable nipple bulge in a men's t-shirt but it is an issue for me with way too many women's tops.
Wow from some of the responses one would think GG's never go outside during the winter...
But yet they do.
How about wearing leggings under a skirt like the GG's do?
Warm fuzzy sweaters, anyone?
You know they make scarves, hats, gloves, and winter coats for GG's too.
It's never too wintery to dress outside. I have to assume your domicile is heated. If I am outside for a stroll during the winter months I wear a sweater dress. It never gets so cold that I need to wear boots to cover the feet to the knee caps. Tights work well for me. I have many midi length dresses which hit mid-calf so a certain amount of the warmth of my body gets trapped within the skirt of the dress.
Sometimes you have to just grin and bear it. When my wife and I use to live in New York City, she was required by convention back then to wear dress or skirts. The style back then was mini above the knee. She would curse at the bitter cold when she was waiting for the elevated subway train on the Flushing Line (#7). You got to make sacrifices if you want the look!
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Too wintery? No. You can dress as you like in the warmth of your home or a hotel room. Going out requires a bit more than a short sleeve dress and bare legs, but it depends on your location as has been said.
Lack of a winter wardrobe? That's me right now. I'm not able to get much this season as I have no good place to store more than I already have. Plus I don't have any opportunities for dressing at present, so it isn't as big of an issue for me. Spring is coming... :)
I find winter just as girlie friendly as summer. I put on one if my faux fur coats and hats,a thicker dress and couple this with 70 denier satin opaque Wolford tights and knee high boots. It?s not weather for walking round in the daytime in strappy heels and sleeveless dresses but they will get their turn soon. A wardrobe for all seasons!
I think that coats and jackets are the hardest items to buy. It took years before I could find a winter coat I really liked and then three popped up within the space of a couple of months! Yes, I am picky, clothes have to match my vintage vibe. I made do with a not-too-bad long black coat from H&M which I have now given to my daughter, although she really wants my houndstooth belted wool coat.
Try finding something cheap for now until you know what you really want.
Since I own a lot of leggings i'm pretty well stocked for winter dressing. Just throw on a nice sweater, some boots, and my down coat and i'm all set. I agree with many that the hot weather is tough on makeup.
Winter is my favourite season, and getting up as Wendy during the winter months is far easier than summer. I sweat incredibly easy, so anything above 15 I am already warm. Right now it is below -30, if it was the weekend I would've dressed as Wendy already.
I don't shave my legs, so the only way I can get away with dressing is high den black tights. Coupled with the proper shapewear, and a wig, it can get very warm very easily; but when it is freezing cold outside it helps offset all the clothing I wear.
I work everyday out and you.can see my pics on instagram.com/nessatrans
If you really want something, you will find the way, even in Alaska women dress...
The cold weather never slows me down. I wear skimpy clothes all year long, at least to the club/bar .
Sweater dresses, pantyhose, boots and a coat or jacket seems to work for me.
No, the reason that you can layer your clothes eg big jacket, boots etc so you easily go about your business passing no problems.
For me, cold is no problem. Boots, tights or leggings, and layered up and I am good. Layers make it easier to obtain an illusion of a female shape and reduce the need to shave. With some imagination, I put together some really cute winter outfits. Summer humidity, heat, and sweat make dressing more challenging for me then.
Where I live, ice is the winter problem. Snow and ice thaw on most days and then refreeze into dangerous patches of ice overnight. I cannot go far outdoors even in drab without crampons that my company gives me for free.
Generally cooler weather is better. One option is to abandon North America for Australia..:)
Of course, it can be too hot. 100 today, 66 tomorrow. Hoping to get my girl on tomorrow.
What is too wintery?
Is that like a blizzard and 60 below?
I love winter, all my leggings and tights, cute knee high boots or ankle boots, a warm winter coat with a cozy hood, a cuddly sweater dress. What's not to love?
I don't know about the UK, but winter coats are on sale this time of year in the US. I just bought one last week for $16!
Women wear women's clothing year round. So do I.
I like the colder weather, it gives a reason for tights and a little more padding.
This is exactly what i find. Extra clothes are very good for concealing underwear outlines, body hair, tucking issues etc. I much prefer winter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Krisi
I thought about this conversation this morning while I was rolling the trash barrel out to the road. It was so cold that the compressed snow was making that squeaky sound when I walked on it. The air temp is -11 f and wind chill is -22 f which works out to -30 c. My European sisters would have to go up to Scandinavia to experience this kind of weather. If there is anyone out for a stroll they will be wearing a parka with their face covered walking with their backs to the wind. And that my friends is what I mean when I say location, location, location.
So I agree winter is a good time to dress and I like all the comments. I did just get on with it. I did manage to find a more winter friendly dress...
Perhaps like some others in don?t ask don?t show I have a smaller ?public? collection of clothes that doesn?t stretch to a long warm winter coat.
In my case I don't have enough storage for a women's parka and boots let alone ther items of clothing that would make an excursion out in the elements comfortable. Our current temp is -6 f warming to the twenties tomorrow which is what happens when snow is on the way. We're supposed to have a 100% chance of heavy snow starting Friday afternoon through Saturday night with total accumulation from 6-13" depending on how it tracks. When the snow tapers off it will be followed by a 30 mph northwest wind. Never mind going anywhere around here, I have to reposition and secure a lose piece on the snowblower and then move all that snow out of the driveway in my drab snowmobile suit and boots. I shave smooth and underdress but am facing the prospect of greasy hands, broken nails and an aching back when it's all said and done. The weather up here is a real downer sometimes.
This is an interesting thread.
The Pink Fog rolls in with me in autumn and lasts until spring. I was born in the summer and don't really care to dress during that season. But, the other three is where my desire falls. Occasionally in the summer I'll have a flash de femme, but the cooler weather seems to make it easier.
It is too hard to dress sexy in the winter, at least without running the furnace full blast.
At least I have my jammies and flannel night shirts to address my pink freezing fog.
If there is a literal snowstorm going on I'd forget the whole thing and stay home. No sense in risking your life on the road if there is a storm going on and it isn't an emergency, no matter what you are wearing.
Personally I have ice water in my veins and the cold doesn't bother me, barring extremes. I just wear whatever I fancy... and a dressy woman's coat.
No I dress every day all year long. In the winter I go shopping with bra and forms panties some times hoses under my drab things. :hugs:
Angie
I am going out tonight 25 degrees F. not frigid but for here it's cold six inches of snow on the ground. I am wearing a dress with leggings, boots, and a winter coat. I will try to get a picture
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Here's how I went out for dinner and and a show last night.
Hi! Hmmm too cold? Even though I live in the Mid Atlantic...sort of Southern part of USA, I love this time of year. First off it is boot season. I so love boots! Today I have on a sweater dress, tights and my Nine West boots! I have noticed that even in this sort of Southern locality, the women are wearing boots, not the Ugs...sheesh they are less than attractive. The other day I notice 3 women wearing cute heeled boots to work as I was parking my car for work. So yeah I love this time of year!