Your man cross dresses, expressing a deep seated feminine side of him that you did not know about because he has endeavoured to keep it a secret from you, fearing to damage a relationship he holds as very important to him. Does he not love me?įirst, calm down and realize that it is unlikely to be the end of your world or the end of your relationship. The revelation is probably a shock and leaves you with a turmoil of feelings and questions. That in turn will depend on a number of variables including your upbringing, your faith, your education, and your expectations of your relationship. Quite how you discovered this is not important, so much as how you react to it. Next month I’ll look at the sartorial styles of transsexuals over the decades.This is addressed to the wife, partner, girlfriend or other who has just discovered that the man in your life secretly wears feminine lingerie at times. I conclude with assorted photos of crossdressers from around 1870 or so through the 1970s. Why should crossdressers be an exception? This is hardly surprising everybody’s clothing does. When in public, crossdressers’ garb closely reflects the gendered clothing of the time. 3 and 4 in a Google search of the term crossdresser: Compare this picture of a young crossdresser in the mid-twentieth century…
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… and here’s the late International Chrysis:ĭue perhaps, to businesses that sell products to help them with their appearance to the Internet, which is full of sources to help them learn their craft and to a breakdown of the categories crossdresser and transsexual (which allows them increased access to electrolysis, hormones, and plastic surgery), today’s crossdressers are more likely to have more sophisticated presentations than the crossdressers of yore. Here’s a photo from the 1950s, taken at a gathering… Depending upon body type and expertise, some are more successful than others. When crossdressers appear on the street however - when away from support group meetings and drag clubs, they almost always do their best to pass.
Here’s a cover treatment by Margaux Schaefer which I was unable to get approved when I was the editor of Tapestry. In private, at community events, and when making political statements, crossdressers can be as outrageous as they like. Photos like this one from an early 1960s issue of Transvestia, were once common in community publications: Even those not particularly inclined toward fetishism tend to wear clothing women rarely or never wear– I think to a large extent because it takes extreme clothing and makeup on male bodies to produce the images of femininity they desire. Many and perhaps most crossdressers dress only in their homes or in hotel rooms, where they can indulge their fantasies without fear. Mandycduk1 says of the following Flickr photo, “No point having a maid who is afraid to be seen in public.” More power to her.Ĭrossdresser art takes the imaginations of crossdressers to the extreme, as in this pencil sketch by illustrator Vicky West, which was destined for Summer School for Sissies: Some crossdressers take their fetishism into public. Why? Because their public appearances aren’t tied to their ordinary lives and to the extent they dare, they can live out their fantasies without affecting their male personas.
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I doubt that’s true, but crossdressers are more free than transsexuals to dress in stylized or fetishistic ways in public. Crossdressers, it has often been claimed, tend to dress like their mothers.
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