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| Wearing Chicwish |
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| Arturo Valls femulates Rihanna on Spanish television’s Tu cara me suena. You can view this femulation on YouTube. |
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Someday Funnies
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Films of Late
I am a big movie fan and usually watch the Oscars to see which movies and movie stars win what awards. During the build-up for tonight’s Oscars, all I hear is how the film Everything Everywhere All at Once is the favorite to win the best film award. Its actors are also nominated for best actor and actress.
I viewed the film last night on Showtime. To say I was disappointed is an understatement. It is one of the worst films I have ever seen. My hate for the film continued to build the longer I watched it and I would have changed channels if my spouse did not insist on seeing it to the end. She disliked the film, too, but figured that after investing two hours with this turkey, she mighty as well see it all.
In my opinion, a much better nominated film is The Banshees of Inisherin, but I don't have high hopes that it will win anything.
And so it goes.
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Getting Better All the Time
I am not 100% yet. Going down stairs is still an issue; I think it is doable, but I have to convince myself that I can do it.
Don't need a cane any longer, but I still carry one just in case (like when I walked in the woods for the first time on Friday).
I figure that later this month, I will be ready to go out and will probably do lunch en femme.
And finally, thank you all for your birthday wishes last week! Hope the next 52 weeks will be better than the previous 52.
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| Wearing Fore Collection |
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| Daniel Furlong, womenswear model |
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Someday Funnies
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| Wearing Chicwish |
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| University of Wisconsin-Madison Harefoot Club male chorus girls, circa 1920’s |
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Colors: It’s all about skin tone
I am not an expert. Through experimentation, I have learned what colors look good and don’t look good on me.
Experimentation is expensive. Putting together outfits of varied colors just to discard those that don’t work can quickly empty your purse. There has to be a better way and it is called “color analysis.”
Myimperfectlife.com has an excellent article “how to find the shades that will make you look—and feel—your best.” The article provides a step-by-step guide for determining your best colors. Click here to read it.
By the way, turns out that I am “cool’ despite what some people say (LOL), so blue, emerald, purple, lavender and icy blue should populate my wardrobe. My bright colors are pink, ruby rosy reds—and for the neutrals, white, navy blues and cool grays.
Have a colorful day!
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| Wearing Bebe |
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| Luis Montalbert femulating Kylie Minogue on Costa Rican television’s Tu cara me suena. |
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Someday Funnies
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| Wearing Alice + Olivia |
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| Sweden’s After Dark femulating showgirls |
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Friendship is Aspirational
I am not religious, but do value Judeo-Christian culture, teachings and traditions. I also appreciate those that enjoy a sense of community and belonging by attending church. With this in mind, I began visiting a local Congregational church over the last year.
Some context: I pass extremely well (5'9", 28" waist, my hair is brown, medium-length bob). My voice is pretty good, too, but I might give out clues in a longer conversation with someone. I dress like any other female does wherever I am and carry myself with a sense of pride. At church, I always wear a conservative dress and low heels.
While I can't make every Sunday as I like to travel, I can usually make time once or sometimes twice a month. What I did not expect and so enjoy about these times is that there hasn’t been a Sunday that someone hasn’t stepped up with a smile and introduced themselves to me. Mostly it is the women who are more social.
When I walk in, I am thanked for coming. After the service in the fellowship room for coffee, I am always chatting with one, two or three women at a time. Yesterday, I met someone who shared my interest in the Detroit Symphony and ballet at the Michigan Opera Theater. It turns out that we had seen many of the same performances and seeing Misty Copeland dance is in our bucket list.
So with all the talk of a war (or push back) on aspects of the “trans movement,” it needs to be said that it isn’t everywhere or from everyone for any reason. I have no doubt that my pastor and some of the women I have befriended have or might have figured me out. But how does one explain the friendly faces, smiles, laughter from so many women and husbands?
Friendship is aspirational. When we meet someone we like, it is because we find aspects of them we admire.
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| Wearing Venus |
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| To Angela Booth, everyday is dress day! |
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Someday Funnies: Any Port in a Store
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| Wearing New York & Company |
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| 1982 Closet Ball Queen competitors |
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Someday Funnies
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| Wearing BCBGMAXAZRIA |
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| Christer Lindarw, yet another Swedish professional femulator |
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Items of Interest
Still Tall After All These Years Dept.
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| 5'11" Kate Grigorieva |
Reader Sissyslave sent me a link to a Herald Weekly article, “The Tallest Women in Show Business,” which is an illustrated list of tall female celebrities. The list included a lot of women who I was unaware of being tall. And I learned that six-foot tall actress Famke Janssen has incredibly large feet and has to get special custom-made shoes for her size 11’s. (We can sympathize.)
Not So Tall After All These Years Dept.
All my adult life, I was 6 feet 2 inches tall, or so I thought. During my recent health issues, a nurse measured my height and informed me that I was a more petite 5 feet 11.
“People typically lose almost one-half inch every 10 years after age 40,” explains Andrea Singer, chief medical officer of the National Osteoporosis Foundation. Since I am 72 years old, that would account for over 1.5 inches of the 3 inches of height that I lost.
The other 1.5 inches could be due to osteoporosis, but except for the height loss, I don’t have any other osteoporosis symptoms. Inaccurate measurements may be the cause. My mother marked my height on a door frame every birthday. I measured the marks on the frame and I topped out at 6 feet 2 at age 16. So go figure.
I will mention the height loss to my doctor, but the good news is that at 5 feet 11, I am a less imposing woman than the Amazonian I was at 6 feet 2.
Quote of the Week Dept.
“Guys, these are the most comfortable bras you will ever wear.” – Kim Kardashian for Skims
Dick Knows Best Dept.
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| Wearing Boston Proper |
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| Brendan W. Jordan |
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Someday Funnies: A Momma’s “Boy”
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| Wearing Missoni |
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| Gene Hackman femulating in the 1996 film The Birdcage. |
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Got Hips
By Paula Gaikowski
What hip pads do for girls like us is to minimize our broad shoulders and produce an hourglass figure. It’s interesting to note that a search on Amazon for hip pads brings up dozens of garments that are used by cisgender women. I thought the market was exclusively for transgender women, however, this seems to be common issue that cisgender women deal with especially when wearing that special dress.
Back in the dark ages of the 90’s, I started to notice the curves on some femulators I saw in magazines, so I started to evaluate different DIY methods. Remember back then there wasn’t any Amazon or Glamour Boutiques, so I was on my own. I started by using the foam packing material that we used at work to ship circuit boards. I had moderate success, but they appeared bulky and a bit too high or a bit too low.
I finally found Classic Curves when the Internet came along and saved up, sent a money order and had the Veronica 2 shipped to my office. A big improvement, I liked the change and silhouette they produced. It was with these hip pads that I gained the confidence to go out in public. All went well until the great purge of 2004 and I had to start building my wardrobe over again.
Today there is a huge selection of garments and pads out there. At the high end there are silicone pads that can be attached to your body with Holister medical adhesive. These pads run in the hundred$ and look great, but are heavy.
Next there are padded shapers. These come with soft foam pads that go down the hip and curve around the bum for added shape.
Finally there are just the foam pads themselves, I have several pair of these and like them because they are light, easy to slip into different foundations and look just right. Some of the padded shapers produce huge hips so I use the foam pads.
I put my foam pads under a pair of control top pantyhose or under my Rago high-waist girdle. There is just enough control to shape and keep things in place.
I hope this helps in your journey. Happy Femulating.
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| Wearing Gracia |
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| Billy Crystal femulating on television’s The Comedians (2015)> |
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Someday Funnies
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| Wearing New York & Company |
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| Ralph Kinkel femulating on German television’s The Drag and Us. |
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Friends in Dresses
One of my friends revealed that she went to work en femme on St. Patrick’s Day. It was the first time for her and she did it to support our community, which is being attacked on all fronts. She wrote, “...me being visible here as an out trans person is I think something I need to do.” Even though it was a “complete non issue for everyone” she worked with, it still took a lot of guts to do so and I was so proud of her for doing it.
My friend is not alone. I am aware of others who work and/or live full-time as women. And I am sure that there are a lot more who I am not aware of.
I like to think that if I was still employed, I would be in skirts and heels in my office by now. Since I am retired, I can’t go to work en femme, but I still dress pretty whenever I can. And now that I am back on my feet, I let the local LGBTQ outreach coordinator know that I am available to do outreach again.
And so it goes.
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| Wearing Ted Baxter |
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| Richard Simmons |
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Someday Funnies: Not a Misster
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| Wearing A.L.C. |
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| Femulating on stage in Casa Valentina |
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Someday Funnies: Fashion Mincing Forward
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Trigger?
Anonymous wrote the following comment to a recent post. I thought the comment deserved a post of its own, so here it is.
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I’m curious how many of us girls got our start in femininity after getting recruited to dress up as a girl in a show or skit?
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I’ve always believed that my interest was sparked after playing a girl’s role in a little show that my parents were involved in at the community theater in my hometown. I was seven and they were putting on Showboat. For reasons I never understood, they needed one more girl to be in the background of several scenes.
It was presented to me as a “big adventure” by mom. I didn’t want to be a girl, but I didn’t know how to say no. I remember being shown how to put on my 1850’s styled little girl’s dresses, petticoats and I think almost everyone who saw the show had no idea that I was not a little girl. Still it felt embarrassing and once the show was finished, I didn’t like seeing photos of myself as a girl or talking about it.
As a young teen, I began to think about that experience more and more. I wondered what it would feel like to try on a dress with pantyhose.
One day when I was home alone, I saw one of mom’s dresses on a hanger in the laundry room and I couldn’t resist trying it on. Who’d know? I was young enough so that mom’s dress fit me fairly well. I walked around the house and decided that I needed to find pantyhose. Then I wanted to put on a slip under my dress.
Dressing up as a girl became a regular activity when I was home alone. I felt guilty for doing it and felt that something was wrong with me, but I didn’t want to know what it was nor did I want to stop wearing dresses and skirts.
Who knows if I’d have ever started crossdressing had I not played a little girl in a show. I’m sure there are opinions both ways. I love the feeling of wearing dresses, the swish of a chiffon hem against pantyhose, but I love being a man and having a wife and family. So I don’t share that aspect of myself with them.
However, from the couple of surviving photos of me from the play, I didn’t look too unhappy being all dolled up.
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| Wearing Hemant & Nandita |
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| KISS femulating to celebrate Paul Stanley’s 1977 birthday. |
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Someday Funnies
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| Wearing Name Brand Wigs |
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| Femulating in Russian television’s King of the Games Click here to view this femulation on YouTube. |
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My Trigger
In the past, I have written that discovering the world of female impersonators moved me to try female impersonation myself at the age of 12. However, I had been exploring my gender gifts years before that, so female impersonation was not necessarily my trigger. But it was so long ago, that I am not actually sure what it was.
Digging way down deep in my memory, I can only recall one event that may have started it all.
I was probably between the ages of 6 and 9 and for a day or two, I wanted to be a circus clown when I grew up. I remember I was home alone with my mother (my father and sister were out) and I covered my face with my mother’s cold cream to simulate a clown’s white face. What a mess!
I showed my handiwork to my mother and she volunteered to do a better job. She removed the cold cream and started anew applying various cosmetics to my face.
When she was done, I looked in the mirror and was shocked. Instead of looking like a clown, I looked like a girl. I still remember the bright red lipstick on my lips.
In retrospect, I am not sure if she realized what I was trying to do. I do not recall if I was clear about trying to be a clown. She may have thought I was trying to be a girl and acted accordingly.
Anyway, I was so embarrassed that I insisted that she remove the makeup before my father and sister returned home. She complied.
But now I no longer wanted to be a circus clown when I grew up. I wanted to be a woman.
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| Wearing Cynthia Rowley |
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| William Hoeveler femulating for University of Pittsburgh’s 1938 womanless stage show. |
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Someday Funnies: Beyond Chapeau
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| Wearing Ann Taylor |
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| Piotr Gawron-Jedlikowski femulated Magdalena Narożna on Polish television’s Twoja Twarz Brzmi Znajomo. Click here to view this femulation on YouTube. |
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