Did Movies and Tv Shows stimulate some of your curiosity about women's Clothing

[Robbiegirl]

In particular I am talking about scenes where men had to dress as women to accomplish something.

I loved Westerns growing up and was surprised several times when men ended up in petticoats, dresses and bonetts ! In one movie they ordered 8 calvary soldiers to don the outfits to fool the Indians and in the scene showed them putting on all the outfits !

In another western movie Roy Rodgers saw 3 men waving around dresses outside of a women's new dress shop. He made them put on the dresses and bonnetts much to the delight of all the women in the town and even made them buy them.

Lastly there were scenes in both movies and tv where men in the old west were wearing dresses and petticoats standing on stools as their wives made adjustments to the dresses .

I have always had dreams of ending up in prarie style dresses because of these scenes. I only got to experience it at my all male boarding school where I had to play one of the female roles in Oklahoma ! That was great !

Does anybody else have vivid memories of scenes on the screen that made them want to try on certain women's apparel ?

[Genifer Teal]

Wonder woman with the Shiney tights. Also, the talk shows like phil donahue and sally, jesse, rafael. They would sometimes have on female impersonators. I was amazed how a man could look so convincingly female.

[Jane G]

In a word no.

I have always loved dance though and the internet led me quickly to Cyd Charisse. Her life and videos have influenced who I am, in a small way. Work hard and present well, whatever goes on around you..

[kimdl93]

not my curiosity. Only my fears.

[Tamsin Englefield]

Not men dressing as women but a film which really sparked my curiosity in things femme was Jack the Giant Killer. An early 60?s fantasy movie with terrible pre CGI animation.

In it the heroine, a wholesome princess, is transformed into a vampish witch by the evil villain. Of course good wins out in the end, the spell gets broken, the Princess returns and they all live happily ever after but my younger self found the witch persona and her ability to switch absolutely beguiling. It caused me to start to think about the ability women have via clothing choices to present themselves so different and fuelled a thousand fantasies some of which I am still acting out today.

[Freddi]

A TV series from the 80's called Quantum's Leap where the main character was teleported into the body of a troubled person to get them to change their ways for the better....quite a few times he was sent into a female body. Kind of got me thinking

[Aroara Xanthemae]

I have been intrigued by men wearing women?s cloths for a long time it definitely gets my attention when I see in on tv or movies and in real life I actively look for the cross dresses in the crowds that I go in and admire the way that they own it and walk around confidently

[Karren H]

Not really. I did not pay much attention to TV or the movies. Actually I really did not think that others also like to dress in womens clothes?. Not until I read a LIFE magazine article on transvestites in NYC that I realized I was not alone. That was like the 10th grade and I had been dressing for almost 10 years. Obviously I lead a sheltered life! Lol.

[Sometimes Steffi]

Men dressing as women is at least as old as Shakespeare, and as recent as vaudeville. Women weren't allowed to be actors in Shakespearian times, so men played all the women's parts. In many of Shakespeare's plays, the man playing the women has to disguise herself as a men, thus, a man playing a woman playing a man. This delighted the audiences.

What I recall is something different. In a movie the Lauren Bacall character pulled on her stockings under her dress. Before that, I didn't know how to pull on stockings as a girl would. After seeing the movie, I knew how to do it and even tried it out with my mom's stockings.

[Mercedes]

I was 13 when Bosom Buddies came on the air. It certainly didn’t hurt my view of crossdressing to see two straight men in women’s clothes lusting after Donna Dixon.

[Phoebe Reece]

When I was around 4 years old one of the shows on television in the early 1950's was the Milton Berle Show. It seemed like every week Milton would be in a sketch or some scene dressed as a woman. I thought he looked like he was having a lot of fun every time he did that. It made me want to have fun too and that resulted in me dressing up in my mother's and grandmother's clothes. Those clothes were way too big for me, but that didn't matter. I was having fun. I'm still having fun crossdressing. Someday, I will quit crossdressing if it ever stops being fun.

[DAVIDA]

Flip Wilson cross dressed as character on his variety show in the early 70s named Geraldine.
He was very funny.

[Sabine7]

About 3 months ago I was in an entertainment theater to watch and hear the live musical show called Tutsie. The main role was about an unsuccessful actor that had to dress as a woman and pretend to be a woman to get the job and play the main female role. He was obviously prohibited as a man to get this job. Very funny, you know all this story. Basically, his ambition was to play the female so perfectly and thus proving hi was an incredible actor. Of course, he got into troubles because of exploring the forbidden territory of femininity.

[MonikaCD]

I grew up watching ?Allo ?Allo!. In every other episode someone was crossdressing.

[Sabine Janus]

Bugs Bunny all the way

[Jillcder]

For me it was the eighties talk shows I remember actually taking a sick day if i knew a show about Crossdressing was on of course that was before the internet and this fantastic forum.

[Stephanie47]

When I was growing up (77 years now) it never occurred to me that any of the above mentioned cross dressing bits on television had anything to do with me. If I saw any shows that ended up having a male wear women's clothing it was humor. As a little kid my only interest was donning one of my mother's full slips because I liked the feel of the nylon on my body: it was like none of my boy clothes. I had no desire to be a girl. It wasn't until puberty that my interests expanded. Then I entered a period of self loathing and self hatred for wearing women's clothing. I thought I was a freak. Society seemed to proclaim that men who wore women's clothing were homosexuals. When I could no longer wear my mother's clothing it seemed I lost interest which arose again after I got married. It wasn't until my wife and I had "The Talk" viewing anything cross dressing raised a lot of angst. I can remember how unsettling for my wife and I it was to see "Tootsie." Even watching "Mash" with Corporal Klinger raised a lot of angst: a constant reminder of disapproval by a loved one.

[Cheryl T]

Actually those TV shows and movies did nothing for me. I always thought they were so campy and everyone should have known they were men. Bosom Buddies is a perfect example.
I suppose it's because I never thought of myself as a boy dressing as a girl. I always just wanted to be a girl.

[JulieC]

I was never influenced much by men dressing as women. Usually, it was a degrading caricature, and it held no interest for me. In fact, it had the opposite effect; made me more ashamed to want to be dressed that way.

I was heavily influenced by Julie Newmar as Catwoman though! Oh that skin tight catsuit...I sooo wanted to be dressed like her! My earliest crossdressing memory of any kind was being in bed at night and trying to emulate the way she had been bound up in an episode that I'd seen that evening. I wanted to be her. I didn't have any women's clothing on, but I was trying hard to be her anyway. I was all of four or five (four, I think). Another one that influenced me was Three's Company with Joyce DeWitt and Suzanne Somers. Both of them were almost always in pantyhose. I could never get enough of watching that show. I've always had a thing for pantyhose, and always will. That show was like a drug

[alwayshave]

Since I started wearing women's clothes long before I saw any movie with a crossdressing character, the answer would be no.

[NancySue]

I agree with Genifer regarding Wonder Woman?s tights, my #1. And, yes, Phil, Sally and Jerry Springer. Though not movies or tv, even though they were drawings, back when they ran lingerie and hosiery ads in the newspaper. Oh yes, the old Sears catalog.

[Fiona_44]

Before becoming interested in crossdressing, I was always interested how women were dressed and loved watching Barbara Eden, Diana Rigg and Mary Tyler Moore in all their outfits. That interest in women's clothing led to my becoming a crossdresser and now a trans woman.

[Lacey New]

Anne Bancroft pulling her stockings up and fastening them to the straps of her garter belt in the movie The Graduate. Fantastic!

[Kris Burton]

Despite the stimulation I received from so many of these lovely and stylish women others have mentioned here, the thought of dressing in a lovely and stylish way myself never even crossed my mind as a young person. That notion came much later!

[Veronica Lacey]

Whether it be in the media or live I was always more intrigued about what women were wearing rather than if men were wearing women's clothing.