Got Stuck in a Dress

Tried on one of my wife's dresses, and could not get it off! It was a floral, cap sleeve, dress with a long zipper in back. It was tight in the bust, with my bra and forms on, so that when I was done prancing around, I could not reach the zipper, or get it over my bust, without risking seam tearing. I finally reached the bra clasps, undid those, and removed the bra. This enabled me to pull the dress up enough to reach the zipper. I was laughing the whole time at my contortions and the sight of me trying to get out of something I so liked wearing. Lucky no one came home as I made my Houdini escape.

As I am in a non-CD-supportive marriage, I could not share this funny story with my wife. I wish I could. I am happy I could share it with you, my sisters.

Julie

Opps! :eek:

Maybe best to just wear your own clothes, lol :heehee:

Julie,

Yes I would not mess with the wife?s things without explicit permission. I made that mistake years ago and she stuck that dress in the trash. I know better now.

Anyhow, I have done the same thing with my clothing before and I have even gotten panicked to the point I was willing to cut it off if I had to. It would be better than to get caught that way, so I did some funny gyrations myself, haha.

Sandi

NO NO NO NO NO!

You are in a non CD supportive marriage and you are trying on your wife's clothes?! How many posts have there been about the wrongness and possible consequences of this kind of behavior. What if you wrecked the dress? How would you explain it?
I suspect you could have gotten your own dress and worn it to breakfast and it would have gotten less of a reaction than it would have if you ruined hers trying it on on the sneak.

IT might be funny on a TV sitcom but it wouldn't be funny to her.

Awkward in various ways!

My wife knows I try on her things and has even blessed it. Yes, that is supportive on some level. She just doesn't want to see it, or talk about it.

I have sneaked many a try-on. Never again.

I can just imagine your Houdini Contortions……made me laugh .
Thanks for sharing.

Congratulations that you can wear a women's dress that zips up in back. The last one I found to fit me was when I was about 13, and I had a wire attached to the zipper so I could get it up and down. One time the wire came off, and I did the Houdini gyrations, lol.

I have a few back zipper dresses. To zip them up I reach down and around with both hands. One hand pulls down the dress as hard as I dare, the other pulls up the zipper. I go with the zip as far as I can, then reach over the shoulders with both hands. One hand gathers up the two sides of the dress and I pull it up as hard as I dare, the other hand grabs the zipper and pulls it up. I might grab the sides of the dress and pull up the dress on the sides before I do the second half of my contortionists act.

The only time I couldn't get out of a dress is when I had my extra long glue on nails and I could not grab the zipper, my nails got in the way. I gave up and slept in the dress that night and my wife helped peal me out in the morning. I could have removed my nails, but wanted to wear them the next day.
my wife doesn't need to worry about me wearing her dresses. She tips the scales at a beefy 105 pounds. I am getting closer, I lost another five pounds in the last couple months.

Back zipper plus sweat is the real lethal combination:doh:

Been in similar situations a number of times, Julie. Only with my own dresses!:battingeyelashes:

The ones that slip on over my head r the worst!:thumbsdn: And, more I struggle, the titer they get!:doh:

I've discovered that's part of the problem! Because I perspire more when struggling! If I simply sit down and relax for a few minutes, I dry and the dresses slide off much easier!:thumbsup:

That's a no-no with some really bad consequences. I remember when I snapped the strap on my mother's one and only black bra. Terrifying.

Julie, You were lucky with this one, it could have turned out much worse

I will post the same warning as the others: Don't try on or wear your wife's clothes without her express permission. Ever!

What would you have done if you couldn't get out of the dress and she came home? What would you have done if you damaged the dress while wearing it or trying to get out of it?

Buy your own clothes.

You should be able to slip your dress up a bit after zipping it down partway. Are you buying your dresses too small?

I've gotten stuck in my own a few times, but that's because I have hyper-flexibility in my shoulders and can do up a back zip that I then don't have the physical strength to do in the opposite direction.

Never try my wife's clothes. She's a foot and 100lbs less than me, so it'd never happen even if I wanted it to.

Women know. They know when you move their things. They know when you hang them back up 11 millimeters off from where they left them. They can smell your scent (even if you took a shower 15 minutes before) on their stuff. They always know. If your wife is not cool with you wearing her things, don't.

Guess what dress she wore today...yep. She is quite transparent, and showed no sign of the coincidence. As for noticing clothes movement, she is also quite messy. Doubt she would ever notice. And if she did, would never pass up a chance to beat me up over it.

Either way, I'm going to stick with my things from now on. Not worth the potential issues, and the ones here.

I tried on my wife's swimsuit once, it had some bone-type thing that helped position the cleavage and I broke it trying to take it off. Made up some garbage about how I was playing with it while sitting on the can, which I think she bought (this was all long before The Talk). Got much more careful after that.

I eventually got permission to try her things on if I wanted, but without the OK it's risky to say the least.

Oh, yes, I remember that happening to me once.
Similar situation. She was unaware at the time (don't flame me ladies, I know it's wrong) and it was a bridesmaid's dress she had worn once...once. It hung in the closet for years and I was just so drawn to it. After donning it and enjoying the feeling it came time to remove it and OMG, I'm stuck. Same situation. Can't reach the zipper without fear of a seam bursting. Finally found a coat hanger, repurposed it and was able to get the zipper down.
Never did that again.

Ahh! Unanticipated dress bondage. What a bonus.
Too bad wifey didn't catch you and just say, "Maybe you need to stay like that for a while!"

Julie, Too funny. I have been caught in my own dress before, but never my wife's.

hilarious, Julie. And I know that wiggle to get to the bra too well except it never happened with my SOs clothes

I got myself in situation where I couldn't take off a dress when trying it on in a big department store. Stuck zipper. I just couldn't unzip it or take it off and had to ask a random woman trying her things in a changing room to help me with a zipper. So embarrassing, because I was shopping as a man. She helped me, but she found the situation very funny. She couldn't keep her serious face on and started laughing when trying to unzip the dress. She managed to do it eventually, but not before many other people using a dressing room saw me. I was probably completely red in a face from embarrassment. It happened before Covid and I didn't even have face mask on.

I have not gotten stuck in one of my wife?s dresses but I have gotten stuck in one she was giving away. She lets me look through them before donating.

Lucky for me my wife does not wear dresses or even own any dresses. Sigh.

When I was a teenager i got stuck in one of my sisters dresses. It took a bit but was able to use longnose pliers to pull the zipper down.
Sara

The Zipper ought to rank among Man's greatest creations. In an alphabetical sequence of landmark inventions such as the Arrow and the Bow, Crop rotation, Disc brakes, Electric light, the Fishhook, Glass windows and others such as the Steam engine. the Safety pin, Sliced bread and the Smartphone, all the way up to the Xerox machine and the oceangoing Yacht, the Zipper falls at the end of the list. Yet in addition to its speed and convenience--so much swifter than low-tech "buttons"--it's probably sexier than any of the others. While a steam engine just sounds like a steam engine, the very sound of a zipper is sexy in itself. While brave humans in our primitive past learned to survive without the Zipper, who'd want to be without it today, any more than we'd want to be without other things they never had either, such as frozen food and toilet paper?

However, like many inventions, even a sharp "Safety" pin, the Zipper does have hazards of its own. For instance, though I may be wrong, I never heard of anyone getting stuck in a dress that buttoned up the back!

Luckily I've never been stuck in a dress myself, certainly not anybody else's, though I have had a tense moment or two. I well remember the first dress I put on, which I've mentioned here before. It was my mother's, pale blue and closefitting, with a back zipper. I must have been thirteen years old. It was heavenly to zip the dress up around me and feel so snugly enclosed in a dress, so deliciously immersed in femininity. Tempting too to imagine how a woman might feel when a lover unzips her dress. But the delights of being in a dress are one thing, while needing to get out of it is another.

Fortunately I was always very careful of what I called "my security" against being discovered, and knowing the possible risks, I did take the precaution of tying a piece of string to the zipper pull to make sure I could not only get it up, but also down afterwards. In later years I haven't had much trouble with back zippers, though they can be tricky at times, and I had to learn the technique that Pumped described, of pulling the back of the dress up or down at appropriate stages to eliminate that "dead zone" between how far I could get the zipper down with a hand over my shoulder and how far I could reach it with a hand twisted up behind my back. Needless to say, the effort was worth it!

This leads me to a serious question. Are women's arms typically more flexible than men's that they're able to cope with fastenings "behind their backs" more easily than men can?

Oh, I know wives will often ask a favor like "Zip me up, darling, will you?"--or sometimes "Unzip me, darling, will you?"--tasks that men are happy to oblige with. Just the same, women more often than not have to deal with these difficulties on their own, not to mention bras that fasten and unfasten behind their backs. Can many women actually do this? I realize of course that individuals vary widely in their contortionist skills, and it doesn't help to ask my wife this question because she's one of the less flexible people who fastens her bra the same easy way that I do: that is, by hooking it in front, then rotating it into position.

Although I've never been stuck in a dress, I nearly got stuck in a skirt a few weeks ago when it fell foul of that other hazard of the invention: the stuck zipper, with a chunk of lining or other fabric caught so that it's hard to pull up or down. I freed it in the end with some difficulty. But you can turn a skirt around to deal with it, which you can't do with a dress. (Or with pants either, come to think of it, and some women's pants zip up the back. Women's clothes fastenings, like the styles themselves, are so interestingly variable compared with men's.) I hate to think what might happen when a back zipper of a dress gets stuck, compounding one problem with another. No wonder Karmen needed outside help to get out of that predicament! I absolutely must sympathize. Oh, the challenges of being a crossdresser!

It's like breaking Rule Number 1 in Fight Club. "Don't Talk About Fight Cub"

Rule Number 1 with Cross Dressing "Don't wear your spouse's clothing while Crossdressing"

My wife has a couple dresses that she has me zip up for her. They are tight little bodycon dresses and one needs to pull the fabric together to zip them up. She might be able to do it on her own, but I know it is difficult. So my point is that women have trouble with back zippers too.

Gotten stuck so often, had wife or sales assistant help quite a few times.

The struggle is real! I have had a couple of bought with some very cute dresses. However, I've never been stuck in someone else's dress before. That would be awkward.

My wife's clothes would never fit. Plus she has no dresses or lingerie.

I've had a couple of times where I had to pull every thing off fast and have torn off a few dresses.
Most dresses I only wear once so it wasn't a big loss.
What I do on dresses with a up to the neck zipper is put a string on the zipper for pulling it up or down.
Since I'm not going out it's not a problem.

Judy, Someone has to wear the dresses in that family. Might as well be someone who likes them. Julie

I have had my share of SA’s help me. Never another woman in the dressing area. That is a whole new level.

When I told my wife about my crossdressing o-so-long ago, it was a emphatic no way and one reason was that she didn’t want yet another sister going through her clothes ( she grew up in a large family) so I have not tried on her clothes and gotten stuck.

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Originally Posted by Lori Ann Westlake

Oh, I know wives will often ask a favor like "Zip me up, darling, will you?"--or sometimes "Unzip me, darling, will you?"--tasks that men are happy to oblige with.

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Lori Ann is right. Zippers can be fun.
How, and why, do women mostly handle them on their own?

Oof Julie, that had to have been a not-so-fun day! LOL But I'm glad you were able to get out of the dress without tearing it

I've had a very similar experience myself, only not with one of my ex-wife's dresses. A while back, I bought a dress from a Torrid store, (actually went to the store and bought it, not ordered online), but due to Covid, they still had their dressing rooms closed so I wasn't able to try on the dress before I bought it. So I got home with the dress that evening, tried it on and come to find out, it was too small..... Grrr!! I got stuck in that dress and was LUCKY to be able to get out of it so I could take it back and I wasn't stuck with a near $60.00 dress that I couldn't wear! LOL

Dresses with zippers can/are intimidating and exciting at the same time and they look great when we wear them. My fear is corsets tied in the back and the bow slipping into a nasty knot. I've come to accept that if I tie my corset behind my back one day I will have to use a sharp knife to cut the laces to get out of it. I always wear a corset under my clothes when dressing and have learned to never tie behind my back because I don't want to take a knife to my laces.

I know this is slightly off topic, sorry