In another thread, posters were talking about 'validation' as a reason why we feel the need to go out while dressed.

My daughter, a philosophy student, has been going on about sound not really existing unless someone is there to hear it and light not really having a colour until it's inside our eyes etc. - so:

If I'm alone in my house and I get dressed up, am I actually cross-dressed? I might just as well be stark naked or dressed as a chicken for all the difference it makes. Couldn't one argue that we're never actually cross-dressed unless there's someone there to see it?