I can remember during the days when internet access was becoming the norm that even searching for "Crossdressing" felt like I was looking for pornography. I had no idea as to how many others there were who were like me. The explosion in on-line shopping had a huge impact upon my dressing as up to then anything I had was a liberated cast-off destined for the charity sale so everything was squeezed into as everything was to small.
So finding sites like this, being able to draw on the experiences of others, finding 1000's of pictures of other cd'ers on photo sharing web sites such as Flickr, all these things have giving me ever more confidence. I now have "My clothes", things that fit and suit me, footwear that doesn't cripple my feet. I think it's impossible to underestimate just what a colossal impact the WWW has had in taking me down a path that had helped fulfill my need to be the person that I am.
Helen