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    How did your transition start for you?

    Did you always feel more femme than male or did you start experimenting with crossdressing and it progressed from there? Obviously it doesn’t fall neatly into those two categories, they’re just examples of what I’m asking. But what’s your story…?
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    I was 5-6 when I wanted a dress! I did not get one! Sad! Then it was Panties only in my teens! Sporatically through 20-40's! I had no idea what all this was about! Maybe just naive or ??? At 65, my wife passed away! Next month, I was buying panties! Then I got on the net and ended up here! I have grown a lot in the last 3 years! I basically started just wanting to see my feminine side thus Lana Mae! Back at 5-6 the girl that caused me to want a dress was Lana! Mae was my mother's middle name! Short answer is yes it progressed from crossdressing to where I am now! Hugs Lana Mae
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    I remember when I was in cub scouts we did a play and I was very disappointed when i did not get the female role. I would have gotten to wear a very frilly Mexican type skirt and blouse. It was about then i realized the sears and roebuck catalogs had the lingerie section and I spent lots of times looking and wondering what the items would feel like wearing them.
    A couple of years later I was staying with my aunt for a couple of weeks during the summer. On a rainy day my female cousin and I were wondering what to do and my aunt suggested for us to play dress up. Well not only did I get to wear a frilly dress but I got to wear everything that females wear under their dresses. Long story short I spent the rest of my visit wearing my cousins things and loved it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cdinmd206 View Post
    I remember when I was in cub scouts we did a play and I was very disappointed when i did not get the female role. I would have gotten to wear a very frilly Mexican type skirt and blouse. It was about then i realized the sears and roebuck catalogs had the lingerie section and I spent lots of times looking and wondering what the items would feel like wearing them.
    A couple of years later I was staying with my aunt for a couple of weeks during the summer. On a rainy day my female cousin and I were wondering what to do and my aunt suggested for us to play dress up. Well not only did I get to wear a frilly dress but I got to wear everything that females wear under their dresses. Long story short I spent the rest of my visit wearing my cousins things and loved it.
    Interesting experience!

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    I’ve always had an obsession with breasts and beautiful women. As I got into pre-adolescence, I started to wonder what it would be like to have breasts so I started experimenting with rolled up towels stuffed into one of mom’s bras under my regular clothes. It got to the point where I would stay home alone while the rest of the family was camping so I could have breasts all weekend. The rest of the garments started falling into place from there.

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    It started with satin under skirts when I was about 8 years old. It then moved to skirts, bras and blouses.
    Suddenly I was fully dressed and enjoyed the variety of different outfits, styles and colours.
    My normal attire was shorts and football shirts as out in public I was a lads lad but in my own secret mind I loved the feel and look of been a girl.
    Things have moved on since and my amazing wife helps me improve and perfect my look and style, but I still have the lads lad look outside the house.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cdinmd206 View Post
    I remember when I was in cub scouts we did a play and I was very disappointed when i did not get the female role. I would have gotten to wear a very frilly Mexican type skirt and blouse. It was about then i realized the sears and roebuck catalogs had the lingerie section and I spent lots of times looking and wondering what the items would feel like wearing them.
    A couple of years later I was staying with my aunt for a couple of weeks during the summer. On a rainy day my female cousin and I were wondering what to do and my aunt suggested for us to play dress up. Well not only did I get to wear a frilly dress but I got to wear everything that females wear under their dresses. Long story short I spent the rest of my visit wearing my cousins things and loved it.
    I was the female role lol and then dress as a girl for the cub scouts Halloween party

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    My mother would do the laundry in a washing machine kept in the kitchen. It was against the rules of the housing project to have a washer in an apartment. She hung the laundry to dry on a clothes line running down the length of the hallway to the bedrooms. There was also a drying rack hung over the bathtub. I was attracted to her nylon slips. I loved the feel of the material. I would caress or fondle the material as I passed by. I progressed to taking them off the clothesline and trying them on. There was no desire to be a girl. I just was attracted to the feel of the fabric. She also hung her floor length nylon nightgowns which I also loved.

    When I was in kindergarten my teacher complimented my cowboy shirt one day. She referred to it as a "blouse." I let her know in no uncertain terms that was "a shirt and not a blouse!!!" This awakening did not occur until my mother started doing the laundry in the apartment.

    Why? Now becomes the difficult part of trying to figure all this out. I was a post WW2 baby. Our family had lived with my paternal grandmother until we were able to move into a post WW2 apartment building for veterans. I was three years old. I remember I was still in a crib. Some years later I started having visions of myself as a young dead woman laying in an overgrown lot. I was dressed only in a white slip. I still have that imprinted memory. I always found it unusual because we did not have a television set. So, there was no news to watch. I could not read yet. I did not go to school yet. This was something I would not have encountered. Why would a four or five year old have an image like that? Several years ago my wife started watching a program series of kids with past life experiences. I did some internet research on the subject. Most of the research indicates the child usually forgot those experiences as he or she got older. Of course, all this hinges on whether one accepts that premise at all. My wife does believe it is possible. If she and I were to ever have a sit down and discuss my cross dressing I would bring it up. I always found it funny that my love of women's clothing started with my mother's white nylon slips and that image of myself as a dead young woman in a white slip laying in an overgrown field.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stephanie47 View Post
    My mother would do the laundry in a washing machine kept in the kitchen. It was against the rules of the housing project to have a washer in an apartment. She hung the laundry to dry on a clothes line running down the length of the hallway to the bedrooms. There was also a drying rack hung over the bathtub. I was attracted to her nylon slips. I loved the feel of the material. I would caress or fondle the material as I passed by. I progressed to taking them off the clothesline and trying them on. There was no desire to be a girl. I just was attracted to the feel of the fabric. She also hung her floor length nylon nightgowns which I also loved.

    When I was in kindergarten my teacher complimented my cowboy shirt one day. She referred to it as a "blouse." I let her know in no uncertain terms that was "a shirt and not a blouse!!!" This awakening did not occur until my mother started doing the laundry in the apartment.

    Why? Now becomes the difficult part of trying to figure all this out. I was a post WW2 baby. Our family had lived with my paternal grandmother until we were able to move into a post WW2 apartment building for veterans. I was three years old. I remember I was still in a crib. Some years later I started having visions of myself as a young dead woman laying in an overgrown lot. I was dressed only in a white slip. I still have that imprinted memory. I always found it unusual because we did not have a television set. So, there was no news to watch. I could not read yet. I did not go to school yet. This was something I would not have encountered. Why would a four or five year old have an image like that? Several years ago my wife started watching a program series of kids with past life experiences. I did some internet research on the subject. Most of the research indicates the child usually forgot those experiences as he or she got older. Of course, all this hinges on whether one accepts that premise at all. My wife does believe it is possible. If she and I were to ever have a sit down and discuss my cross dressing I would bring it up. I always found it funny that my love of women's clothing started with my mother's white nylon slips and that image of myself as a dead young woman in a white slip laying in an overgrown field.
    Very interesting! In later years I did a past life regression. I was a 11 year old girl that died in a house fire set by her brother. The details of the regression were verified to that date and the place. Which made sense to me as I felt as a kid I was finishing something of some sort. It explained a great many things. Including a birth defect that left me some feminine attributes.

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    When I was about 10 or 11, since my parents ran a pretty tight shop and there wasn't anything else around the house to satisfy my adolescent curiosity, I started looking at the lingerie section of the Sears and J C Penney catalogs. After a while I realized I was becoming just as fascinated with what the models were wearing as I was with the models themselves. Things just grew from there.

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    I began by wearing my mothers tights. I always wondered what it would be like to dress fully. I did not do it until I was about 50. But once I did I loved it.

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    When I was around 4 or 5 I used to get into my aunts' closets and play dress-up. Then around 11 or so I discovered my mom's nylons hanging in the bathroom. Once I tried them on, I was hooked. I my late teens, I had a girlfriend who used to dress me up. The desire to dress subsided and in my 50s it came back and I have been enjoying every minute of it.

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    Well I have always felt feminine, and I think in fourth grade I noticed girls in my class started wearing training bras I remember thinking "I should be wearing one of those"...

    The rest is history, as they say.

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    Red face In your head, since a very young kid.

    Realized I wanted to be a girl at about 4 or 5. Switched underwear / panties with a gg friend at her house. Yes she was my age 4 or 5 also, the panties felt correct. Progressed from that point, nearly 60 years later.

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    I started when I was about 5, back then there was a thing called latch key kids, and I was one of them.

    My mom would wash her panties and hang them up in the washroom to dry. I was fascinated, whenever I was in the washroom (door closed) I would feel the texture of the panties and there were so smooth, compared to the drab male underwear I was wondering.

    One day after school, curiousity finally caught up to me and I decided to grab the pair of panties and try them on. It felt so amazing and so right. Since then, I have not looked back.

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    Boy, seems like allot of us started at about 5. What I remember is my older sister dressed me up in her Ballerina outfit and after that I was hooked!
    I wore that Ballerina outfit every chance I got until it didn't fit any more. I remember wearing the tights to school in 1st grade.
    Maybe a physiologist can fix me, LOL!
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    "This is ME" I am not CRAZY, I'm just a GUY who likes dresses!
    Since allot of men dress up in woman's clothing that makes it a manly thing to do!
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    I can't say for sure when it really started, since I've always felt like I was supposed to be a girl - and tried to dress the part whenever I could.

    One of my earliest memories (apologies to those who have seen this before) is staying overnight at my grandparents' house. Since they didn't have PJ's for me, my grandmother would break out a housedress of hers, put a belt on me, and hike the skirt up to where I wouldn't trip on it. I WAS IN HEAVEN! I remember announcing that I was now a girl. Of course they ignored my "childish nonsense" (I think I was about four at the time). Needless to say, I found every excuse I could to sleep over.
    Years later, I liberated some outfits from their attic. I think they must have been dresses, etc. that my mother and/or aunts when they were younger.

    Of course, I also "borrowed" a few things from my sister - until I got caught with them in my possession, and got in trouble for it.

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    Growing up, I lived next door to two sisters and we would play together. I was around 8 or 9. One day, they were playing “dress up” and asked me if I’d like to join them. At first, I just watched...fascinated. They had some lingerie which drew my attention....especially nylon stockings, so I joined in. The instant I put on nylon stockings, I experienced very pleasurable feelings. That, to this day, started my cding progression. Hose, of all kinds are still my #1 favorite pieces of lingerie.

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    Re: post#10 NancySue.

    Nylons started my cross-dressing and are an essential part of my daily attire. Without nylons I'm not dressed.

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    Most posters said they were about 5 when they developed an interest in lingerie, etc. I think age of 5 is the transition point from being babies to pre-schoolers. Our curiosity develops and we start exploring the world around us. We start being independent and that includes varieties of clothing. I also was 5 when I tried to put nylons on. I wrote about it in my introductory message when I joined here.
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    Around the age of five for me as well. "Borrowed" a pair of my mothers nylon granny panties and never looked back.

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    My earliest memory was also around the age of 4 or 5 when my mother dressed me in a pair of panties since all of my drab undies were in the laundry.. and the rest is history as they say...it wasn't till I was in my late 50's when I was divorced and found myself living alone that it has progressed to full blown dressing and outings . As an aside, somewhere in the back of my mind I remember reading something about our personalities are forever etched into who we will be by age 5 give or take a yr. That might explain why so many of us go that far back in our memories.

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    Around 12/13 my mother used me as a dress dummy for sewing and alterations which I hated at first. Then when I started wearing some undergarments to make things fit better I went head over heels (no pun intended).

    But then after I started showing too much interest in remaining the girdle, bra etc. after the fitting was over, I got replaced buy a dress form from a second hand store. But by then I was hooked and never looked back.

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    for me I was 10 or 12 years old I would go in the attic where we rented. A lade renting there stored things up there being an only child I had alone time so I'd go up there and try her dresses, skirts and what ever I could find. My dressing went on and off till June 2006 when I got my wife to let me wear a skirt one very hot day . Now retired I dress about 95% of the time

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    When I was three or four the girls of the neighborhood were playing dress-up. For whatever reason they dropped the dresses on the sidewalk and were playing across the street. I said to a friend, "Wouldn't it be fun to surprise them by dressing in their clothes?" And we did, partially. We were spotted before we had gotten dressed and dropped the dresses and ran away. Little did I know that to me it wasn't just 'fun' to tease the girls.

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    For me was around my 5 or 6 years old but I unconsciously had forgotten it may be erase from my memory because what I had in my mind was in my early 20s that, as a joke, I wear the whole day my of my wife's panties, a thong. I look my butt in the mirror and found it very sexy. Never again wear men's underwear.
    Later being on therapy I start remembering those childhood hidden memories and later in teenage days trying ky sister panties and bras.....
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