So, how many years now?

[Stephanie47]

First, I would have to define what a cross dresser is to get a proper estimate of the beginning of time. When I encountered my mother's nylon full slips drying on a washline strung in our apartment I loved the feel of the nylon fabric. It was like none of my boy clothes. I use to fondle the slips until I had the nerve to take them down, slip into them for a quick feel and then rehang them. I had no desire to be a girl. It was just the feel of the nylon. Then, I expanded to trying on her nylon nightgowns that were kept in a laundry bag in the closet in my bedroom that I shared with my older brother. I would yank it out of the bag, don it for a while and then replace it. It wasn't until puberty and raging hormones that I started raiding my mother's dresser drawer and getting into her bras, granny panties, girdles & stocking and slips. If the beginning is those hanging full slips, then life began over seventy years ago.

[LIKETODRESS2]

I was around 11 or 12 so 41 years

[Stephj]

Started feeling bras and panties in the store at about 5years old. Started wearing both bras and panties at ten years old now almost 61 still wearing them daily

[bridget thronton]

60 years since the first time I fully dressed

[traciJ]

Hi Carla, I'm pretty sure I was around 5yo when I first tried on a dress. I have absolute clarity about the feeling it gave me and that propelled me to be a lifelong CD. So that puts me around 55 years.

Traci

[Traci H]

The early times of my exposure are all a little vague. I know I tried some of my sisters panties and certainly felt my mom?s stuff fairly young. I remember some early fantasies somewhere in there too. I?m going to go with age 10, plus or minus a bit. Been 62 years then with this fog rolling in and out.

[tifftg]

Started with my mom's panties, girdles, bras and nylons when I was 13. Now 70 so 57 years and counting with a lot of ups and downs over the decades.

[April Rose]

69 or 70

[kimdl93]

More than I care to remember…but seriously. Just shy of 69 years, from the age of 3 based on my recollection and what I have gleaned from siblings.

[Katherine L.]

54 years. Started with mom’s bras at 12 years old and I’m now 66.

[alwayshave]

I started at 3 or 4, so a minimum of 59 years.

[Fiona_44]

Close to 65 yrs. for me with the last 33 months being the best.

[BTWimRobin]

Growing up during the 1960s and 1970s I lived in a house full of women. Needless to say there were times the Sears Catalog came to life. Throughout my life the feelings and desires to dress would be and flow so I would dabble a little here and a little there. But never anything official and I was always able to put it away. Somewhere in my late 50s the dam burst and I started dressing and nearly 6 years later, at 62, I'm going stronger than ever.

[RachelB.]

Started around 8 or 9. I'll be 69 in April. So a long time.

[Pauline Quirky]

Three years... after 45 years of thinking it would never happen 😉

Just shows you never know when the urge might creep up on you... and there's no going back when it does.

[Maria 60]

I do remember when my sister left her pantyhose on my bed post and curiosity got the best of me and I had a field day with them. I just can't put an age on it. I'm going to think about eight that would make it 53yrs ago.

[Geena75]

First time in pantyhose was about 55 years ago, but first time in a dress and pantyhose was about 50 years ago.

[rachellegsep]

1st time I was 11 years old so 50 years.

[Linda E. Woodworth]

Too far back to remember the actual date but I'd say 50+ years ago.

[SophiaRose]

45 years and counting!

[ColleenA]

55 or 56 years. My earliest distinct memory is around age 9 or 10. I kept a pair of black panties from one of my sisters under the mattress that I would slip on in bed. I loved to feel the lace with my fingers. I don't think I was getting to the common end result yet, however.

The best memory, though, was when I was 11. One day, I had the house to myself; somehow everyone had someplace to be, and I knew it would be late in the afternoon before anyone returned. I went into the bedroom of my 18-year-old sister and spent hours there trying on at least half her clothes - bras, panties, dresses, skirts, nightgowns, go-go style boots, etc. I was in heaven!

[racquelr]

Don't remember when I first started putting on my mom's bras and slips that were in the laundry hamper in the bathroom (and then grduated eventually to her lingerie drawer when I was home alone).
Probably sometime between the ages of 10 and 15, so that's 50+ years now

[Marketa]

Years? I haven't finished even the first one yet! :D

[Debbie Denier]

51 years ago I tried on a pair of my mum?s tights which changed my life forever.

[Natalie5004]

I remember being a 12 to 13 year old when it all started with my sisters clothes in the house.

It really kicked in once I got married. But in the last 5 years is when I decided to dollup and let my wife see me and go outside the house.