Please describe your enjoyment (be ladylike!) and what do you seek to accomplish?For me it has always been to try to compensate for being 'typecast' the wrong gender and trying to somehow worm my way onto the Pink Team? You?
Please describe your enjoyment (be ladylike!) and what do you seek to accomplish?For me it has always been to try to compensate for being 'typecast' the wrong gender and trying to somehow worm my way onto the Pink Team? You?
Because I like being on the pink team as much as I like the blue team.
I don't think I can stay on one side forever...that's just me.
Women's clothing is fun. The looks are endless.
Hugs,
Zoe
Because it has always felt natural. Because I love spending time in front of the mirror trying on new outfits and styles mixing and matching until I get something I really like. Then just sitting in the lounge like now chatting to you girls.
I like to be able to feel what it is like to be a girl. By wearing their clothes, I get to feel what
girls feel, at least what they are wearing. I do not go out of the closet, I am just not anyway
have a female frame, quite the opposite, But I can dress and feel the other me that wishes
could come out of the closet.
Rader
Wow! Reading through all theses comments from you girls has really made me think about my own reasons. So many of you have touched upon feeling that match my own. I don’t think I could have answer “why” until very recently. It’s hard when your younger to get past the confusing mess of positive and negative emotions.
As a man I can express only some of the things that I see as part of my female self. I’m very creative and have always been able to incorporate my love of baking, shopping, fashion, home making, gossiping with the girls etc as part of my artistic nature. However sometimes it’s just not enough and the rest of my female side who I have come to call Sam just needs an outlet.
As so many of you have commented, We can’t not dress. The choosing of an outfit, the feel of the clothes against the skin, the pleasure when I look at myself in the mirror and it works. Girls can switch so easily between modes of dress. From hanging round the house to formal work ware to drop dead sexy. When I want to feel sexy I only have one way to go…
Sam is the sexy me. If it’s the little black dress or just as today some skinny fit jeans and a gypsy top (plus some sexy knee high boots!) it’s how it makes me feel inside.
That’s why I need it.
Thanks for posting this question Harley
And thanks for all the other fab posts girls, I loved reading them.
The more i read on here the more It feels really life affirming to be part of this community.
Sam
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As I've said on another thread, it's hard to find a well-dressed woman not attractive. Even a marginally attractive woman is hard to not look at when she is all done up. I guess that's part of my motivation in dressing, an attempt to transform the bland everyday me into something attractive.
I love to wear pantyhose, mini skirts and high heels, it feels good and sexy, its personality. it just happens,
Steffanie52
I crossdress because I believe that by living as a woman I am expressing the real me, I have had the urge to live as a woman since circa 1956, now that I live the life that has always been just under the surface I feel completely fulfilled. Btw I love being a female 24/7, as often as possible.
Fulfilling a Lifetime Dream of Living as a Woman in My Adult Years.Ten Years Living 24/7 as a Mature Lady
My Love of Cat's Eye Frames, Bangles, Red Lipstick, Nails, & Cheeks, Comes From My Mother - An Irish Beauty
I'm Always Rainbow Proud
Just as Ms Arlene said! It's the true me!
I am just beginning to realize why I began crossdressing a year ago. I now know, but can do very little beyond brief moments, and they are not enough.
Barbara
He (she) who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance.
- Friedrich Nietzche -
I may never get to fly like the other girls, but I do so want to dance, so I continue to climb.
I dress for recreation and rest.
I have always had an affinity for female company and this mixing with women was what got me going some years ago
Work on your elegance,
and beauty will follow.
Because it relaxes me and excites me all at once. And the longer I go without doing it, the more I tend to need it. I find that if I dress often enough, I can get stuff done when I am not dressed. If I don't do it often enough, it builds to the point of distracting me during times when it's not convenient to be distracted. So I guess I dress for peace of mind, and because a piece of my mind needs for me to do it.
i still need a job.
but i put a on a skirt as soon as i get home.
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There isn't anything I am really seeking to accomplish when I dress.
However, fashion is an art. Makeup is an art. When fashion and makeup come together it can be an explosion of art.
This is how I choose to express myself in the most artful and creative means I have at my disposal. I try to remember that no one has ever put clothing on a body quite like I am doing when I dress. My wife gets to see the best creations yet some Frankenstein monsters never make it out of the closet.
I love the process and the unknown outcomes of different combinations of clothes, shoes and makeup. I just love seeing how it turns out.
That, I suppose, is what I am trying to accomplish.
Meghan
"No matter how far you've gone down a wrong road, turn back."
~Turkish Proverb
Ame has always been a part of me. My wife used to kid that she needed my "gay" side to go shopping with her. I have even helped her friends shop. The SA today thought I was gay. Her quote"Who needs a girlfriend when you have him" I recently admitted to myself and my wife I would enjoy dressing feminine not for a sexual release but for happiness in feminine things.
Simple I like being treated like a lady.
I have always been curious what it would be like to live life as a woman and how it would be different than being a man. What would it be like to wear dresses, makeup, heels, have breasts and other lady parts? How would my childhood be different, if at all? What would going through puberty as a female be like, having to deal with breast growth, and the social challenges high school presents? What is like for a woman to fall in love with a man and then get married? Would it be different than what a man experiences? What does it feel like to be intimate as a woman, with a man, another woman or one’s self? And most importantly how do these experiences compare to their male equivalents? Dressing is my adept to answer as many of these questions that I can. However, I am completely comfortable being a man. I don’t necessarily whish that I was born female but I wish I knew what it would be like if I was. And since I am not sexually attracted to men and lack the physical equipment and will to answer some of those questions. I am left doing whatever I can do to answer them. I am also beginning to learn that feminine clothing feels really nice.
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As I have said many times on this forum and elsewhere, I crossdress because I like to and because it is fun!! I am not compelled by any deep seated motivation, I just like to do it!!
Stephanie
Lady on the outside, but man underneath!
I do so because I can't help it. It's like being left handed, having turrets, being born with asthma, or extra limbs and appendages. Unfortunately, this proclivity to cross dress, including other depths of transgenderism, is subjective and not seen by the casual passerby. Its invisible hold on those so endeared is nonetheless as effective in application as the signs accompanying other folks who have have visible differences.
Like many of those who post on this board, stopping does not work. Neither does running from it. If neither stopping or running work, then engaging and embracing remain. ...and that is what I've done somewhat recently, and therefore have made much greater peace than fighting a losing battle. So thus I cross-dress and am a transgender person.
Last edited by TeresaL; 10-13-2012 at 10:18 PM. Reason: Clarification.
This is a great time for me to answer this question because for the next two weeks I'm going to be "home alone" and will have ample opportunity to dress--on some days for the entire day. BTW, TeresaL, I AM left handed! Guess I'm doubly cursed, huh.
Anyway, I dress for a number of reasons, these are just a few: 1) I really do wish I was a woman; if circumstances were different I'd be working on it right now, 2) Some of my earliest memories are of dressing in mom's stuff, 3) When I don't dress for a period of time I feel miserable, 4) I love the feeling of lingerie, especially pantyhose and bras, 5) I hate tight-whiteys, 6) on the occasion when I do go out and pass at any level, I feel really fulfilled.
I hope someday we can quit asking these questions and just live our lives for who we are without all the stigma.
Yes that's me too. Just like the clothes, the makeup and comfortable being a different looking person for a whileOriginally Posted by sissystephanie
Just enjoy dressing. Nothing more
Thanks for the many thoughtful replies. For me, I think it started -as a feeling that I ought to be wearing my older sister's pink nylon panties (she preferred her cotton lollypops) and was partly 'Venus envy'--she was the smarter, favored one- I was the 'screw up' in the family. As this began when I was about 4-5--it wasn't anything sexual (fetish) then. As I got older, the Fetish part became a major component and I found that 'when I stressed, I dressed'--think this is a common situation.
After being on meds for 6 years or so, there is no more 'mojo' left , alas, so the fetish part is gone for the most part. Guess it just feels 'natural' and I derive mental pleasure feeling (pretending?) that I am on the Pink Team. Ironic, I think more Crossdressers wear pantyhose than natural females. We keep Hanes pantyhose in business!
I makes me happy. I feel complete for some reason. When I finish dressing and look in the mirror and see a good transformation I feel relaxed, and fulfilled. I love looking for new outfits, hair, better ways to pass as a woman, working on my walk, arm and hand movements, shoes, makeup, all the wonderful colors....just seems to be so much to making a woman look nice, so many options.
It's not sexual, not even erotic for many years now. I look at women and evaluate how they are dressed and get ideas, oh and ah over well made up women and enjoy emulating them.
The shortest answer, at least for now is - it feels like me.
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