What was the pebble that started the avalanche?

[Solange]

I loved Patience's question about first female apparel purchase. So fun reading everyone's responses! But for me, the first purchase was kind of dull. However, there was a purchase later in life that tipped the scale, hard. For many of you, it may have occurred with your first purchase, but maybe not.

The purchase that sent me tumbling down the precipice into the pink fog was my first dress, a slinky striped spandex mini I picked up at a second hand store. The material clung to me in a way that made me feel SO FEMININE. Over the next several weeks the compulsion to discover reigned. I needed shoes, then higher heels, then a bra stuffed with tissue, then forms, then my legs needed to be shaved, then everything needed to be shaved, and I needed a wig, and to do my nails. I've had to pull back dramatically to maintain DADT, but OMG, I would fall down that cliff again in a heartbeat.

How about you ladies? Remember that precipitous moment when you first discovered the power and euphoria of the pink fog?

[docrobbysherry]

To be completely honest, Solange? For me it was discovering this site 12+ years ago.

Up until then, I had dealt with my dressing completely alone in my closet. Discovering there were others, "like me", really sent Sherry and me down the rabbit hole!

[caitlyn louisa]

Halloween. I was as convincing as possible and loved it when girls made comments about me enjoying it too much or looking like I had some experience with dressing up!

[Stephanie47]

Probably the vivid red Vanity Fair bra I bought myself one year as a Christmas present. That was my first bra. After that I started buying undergarments which were as color matched as possible to slips and panties. Back in the 1980's manufacturers/designers were making sets of matching bra, panty, full and half slips.

[Jenny22]

My mom's red lipstick at a very early age .. 7 or 8.

[Crissy 107]

Looking back it was trying on my Moms panties, bra and girdle at around 11-12 years old. I just loved it so much and although at that time I did not know it I was hooked for life.

[Robbin_Sinclair]

A black mini skirt. Still have it.

[Marianne S]

It was my mother's light blue floral summer skirt, just lying around one evening while my parents were out. Although I knew they might be back at any momen, I couldn't resist the urge to put it on. I was twelve or thirteen. After that there was an "avalanche"! Before long I was into everything: bra and panties, girdle and nylons, slip, blouses and skirtx, dresses...

[Lana Mae]

The pebble started a long time ago when a little girl threw her dress over her head! I wanted a dress! No,you are a boy! I tried to be a boy! I fooled everyone even myself! The truth would not be denied! Now 69 and realizing my feminine self 24/7! I am Lana Mae! Hugs Lana Mae

[Terri Semes]

My experience too !

[evadan]

Probably the vivid red Vanity Fair bra I bought myself one year as a Christmas present. That was my first bra. After that I started buying undergarments which were as color matched as possible to slips and panties. Back in the 1980's manufacturers/designers were making sets of matching bra, panty, full and half slips.

Yes, I too had some matching Vanity Fair and Maidenform bra, panty and slip sets. My favorite set included a mini-slip with see-through lace inserts on the sides. I loved wearing that over my garter belt and stockings. Oh how I miss the lingerie of that era!

[GeorgeA]

Nylons. I tried them when I was 5 and wore them ever since,well, maybe from late teen years. For me crossdressing=nylons, everything else is incidental. One day I dressed but with bare legs. It felt all wrong. Quickly pulled the nylons on and voila! everything was right again.

[Crissy 107]

CynthiaD, I absolutely loved your post and am happy for you both that you have reached somewhat of a middle ground in your marriage. I wish you continued happiness.

[Gia]

I think for me was the first set of bra and panties I bought. The urge to buy clothes began when I have asked my wife to help me buying clothes. That day we bought a black fake leather mini-skirt and a stretchy black top.
It is still one of my favorite combo 😍.

[Lacey New]

It was nylon brief panties. I entered puberty in the age of the miniskirt and sitting at a school desk and dropping a pencil could sometimes be rewarded with a peek of panties. I was quite naturally very interested in what was being those bits of silky looking cloth. Well, we had a shared hamper at home and both my mother and sister deposited their panties in the same place. I don?t remember whose pair I tried on first but they were delightful full cut nylon briefs. Needless to say, the reaction was very exciting and the addiction started.

[Connie D50]

It was a sleep wear set my mom had I found it in my parents bathroom one morning (looking for something else) . It was a light blue ruffles panties matching bar and the cutes share cover up again with ruffles that went just pass the panties. I just had to try it on

[Sidney]

I believe it was the first time I wore heels and a velvet dress. When i saw me in a mirror i was hooked for life.

[MonicaPVD]

When I was around ten years old, I discovered my mother's vast hosiery collection which included lots of shimmery nylons. I immediately became addicted to the way they looked on my then smooth legs and also how they made me feel constrained by their tightness. My mother was very observant and organized, which leads me to believe that she knew all about my little habit yet she never mentioned it. Later, when I had spending money of my own, I purchased several pairs and hid them in our basement. During most of my high school years, if I was wearing long pants you could be certain that I had a pair of tights on underneath. It was exhilarating to feel them hug my body and slide against my pants with every move.

[BrendaPDX]

I am sure I have posted this before but here I go again... Early high school, I was at the Salvation Army thrift store, I ran across a dress and just had to have it! I paid for with shaking hands, and tried it on that night. Of course it had to fit perfectly! I remember the side zipper, I had never seen one before, but when I sipped it it pulled the dress around me and fit perfectly! I was stunned at the pretty girl in the mirror looking back at me. A girl like "that" would never date a boy like me. I must have stood there an hour... The die was cast!!!

[Cheryl T]

If there was one item that nudged me over the edge it was my first pair of silicone forms.
The feeling was incredible and something I knew I had been seeking forever.

[Bruce64]

I used to paint my finger nail around 12 years old or younger as far as I can remember

[kimdl93]

The first pebble was probably discovering one of my older sister?s slips in the laundry. I can remember having a fascination with all feminine things and this was somehow symbolic of that.

The last straw for me was added many decades later, when, like Cheryl, I finally succumbed to the temptation to order breast forms. The moment I first put them on something clicked in my head...it was as though I now possessed the missing piece to the puzzle.

[Kay J]

Five years old. Moms nylon and never stoped and at 70 still going strong!!!

[Bea_]

I tried on my mom's and sister's bras left hanging to dry when I was a preteen/teen. There was no real draw to wearing them on a regular basis, it was just a mix of curiosity and something feminine at which to aim my newfound testosterone. After marrying, I tried on some of my wife's things a few times, but again no real draw to wear those things on a regular basis. It wasn't until my fifties that I tried on some of my wife's things, this time with more of an wish to have equivalent things of my own.

Panties were definitely the gateway drug, but the real 'precipitous moment' was when my wife showed real acceptance of my curiosity. She has come to be supportive, although she definitely wants it kept 'in house'. I think that if I wanted to, or tried to present as a woman rather than a man-in-a-dress, her support would evaporate. But, since I definitely identify as a guy and present as eccentric rather than truly feminine, she takes it all in stride with a fair amount of good humor.

[DanniBell]

When I was in 7th grade and tried on a blue and white one-piece of my sister's, and realized how well it fit, and how natural I looked in it. I honestly don't know where my head was before then, but that was when I realized I could probably pass and knew I wanted to.

-D