I started dressing as a child, but had my real epiphany at age 40, in 1997. I think it mainly happened then because I had achieved my terminal college degree and started a new job, which I loved and...
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I started dressing as a child, but had my real epiphany at age 40, in 1997. I think it mainly happened then because I had achieved my terminal college degree and started a new job, which I loved and...
My only shoplifting experience came when I was around 19 or 20. I was browsing the women's shoe racks at the local Target store. (It may even have been before their name change when they were still...
Age 2-1/2 -- Mom first put lipstick, nail polish and clip earrings on me (only occasionally, for short periods)
Age 5 -- Started trying on her shoes
Age 6-ish -- Mom's girdles and stockings
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A painfully shy introvert, I'm afraid. I try to do a little better when I'm out and about dressed, but it is hard to overcome one's deepest personality traits.
- Diane
After I got tired of what I could find in my mother's closets, I walked right into the misses' department of a major local department store and bought an ankle length black skirt and a rather dressy...
My dog (Labradors rule, Teresa!) never paid any attention to how I was dressed, but I was probably not as good to him when in femme mode. A big dog can do a lot of damage to hose, hair, dangly...
I've told all my friends that they should dump my naked body by the side of the road someplace and let the wildlife have their way with it.
- Diane
I wear a retro foundation (heels, corset and gartered stockings, always), but my outer clothes range from the '80s to the present, with just an occasional nod to the fashions of the early '60s (think...
I have probably reached about 50% likely to be addressed as "ma'am" at fast food windows and in checkout lines, even when I'm not trying at all. It even happened when I showed up to vote in our...
I experimented with a couple of names before settling on Diane. Now that I've been using it for years, there are a fair number of people who know me only by that name, and it's part of the logins on...
My mom got me hooked on nail polish and lipstick when I was about 2-1/2 and would hang around her dressing table while she was doing her makeup. By age 5 I was taking a strong interest in her...
CLOSET SIZE AND PURGING
1. Do you have more women's clothing than men's in your closet?
About 3:1 women's to men's closet space.
2. How many pairs of non boring Shoes do you have?
Around 250....
That list is what some of us would call, "a good start." Soon those numbers will be in the hundreds! :)
- Diane
I am one fairly well adjusted individual who happens to have a somewhat more complex than usual relationship with gender. However, referring to myself as "his name" or as "Diane" is a convenience...
The one time I ran into an acquaintance while out and about, she recognized me instantly and called out my male name from across the room. So although I think my transformations are pretty thorough,...
Outfits 1, 2 and 5 are my favorites. The colorblock sweater dress in photo 3 does not flatter your figure, I'm afraid.
- Diane
I totally endorse the plan that every outing should end with ice cream!
- Diane
One of the alternate ways to use the pulse oximeters is clipped to an earlobe. That's what they usually end up doing on me anyway because even without polish, my nails are too long to fit properly in...
Alas, my mom and her co-conspirator, my grandmother, were both into home do-it-yourself hair care and rarely went to a "real" salon. I've smelled plenty of perm solutions at home and have helped...
My features are a mix of my mom and maternal grandfather and it's as though I didn't inherit anything at all in the looks department from my dad's side of the family. Virgin birth, perhaps. :)
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The stores are full of great clothes. Put this item out of your mind and go shopping for something else (but different) that you like even better.
- Diane
I often watched my mom get dressed when she was getting ready to go out. She didn't seem to mind and would often put a bit of lipstick or a pair of clip-on earrings on me while I was hanging out in...
I once closed a filing cabinet drawer when my fingers were slightly overlapping the top edge of the drawer and neatly clipped off two 3/4" long acrylic nails in one swift move. Had to hide my hand in...
I wish I had worked at a place where people actually dressed up for holiday parties. About the most you would ever see at our place (a high school attached to a liberal college campus) would be an...
It doesn't sound like a safe place to be whether you dress in public or not. For goodness' sake, please start planning now for how you can get out of there as quickly as possible. In the meantime,...