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My Vacation
Last week, I did not take time off from work and I did not go to some exotic vacation spot. My "vacation" was a vacation away from writing this blog. After writing a daily blog post for over 9 years, I...
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50 Summers Ago
When I read A Year Among the Girls by Darryl Raynor in 1968, I was a high school senior and trying to figure things out about my gender. The book did not help me figure things out, but it did make me...
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The Perfect Dress
Ann Taylor has this striped dress on sale and I think it is a perfect dress for girls like us.The vertical stripes on top create the illusion of narrowing our wide shoulders and the horizontal stripes...
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Flicks for Chicks
I am a big movie fan.I like a varied genre of film. There are only a few that I do not like: action (for the sake of action) films and slasher films. I also don't care much for feature-length animated...
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Susanna Said
Susanna Valenti of Casa Susanna fame wrote regularly for Virginia Prince's Transvestia. Her take on the state of crossdressing in the early 1960s still rings true 55 years later. The following is her...
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Happy Independence Day!
Wearing Guess by Marciano.Peter Outerbridge in the 1999 Canadian film Better Than Chocolate.
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She's got legs; she knows how to use them*
I recently received another e-mail complaining that my skirts were too short for my height and/or my age (I am 6 feet 2 and 65 years old). I think the height complaint is a non-starter. Tall women have...
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Got Labels?
By Susan KingThis is the first of what I hope are many guest blog posts by my friend Susan, who is the author of her own blog, Transitioning Into Tomorrow.Growing up in 1960's, I was secretly wearing...
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Marie, A Girl Continued
This story is a continuation of Marie's First Time.Regrettably, next day when we were reliving the events of the previous evening my wife announced now that I had experienced some of the joys of...
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Shopping with Stana
My favorite shopping amusements.Wearing St. Roche.Thomas Kuc and Benjamin Flores, Jr. in a 2016 episode of television's Game Shakers.(Thank you Zoe!)
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I line
Despite doing my makeup for over 50 years, I have never been able to do eyeliner like the woman in the accompanying photo. I figured that it was just eyeliner incompetent, however, when I have had...
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Sara's First Time
General Douglas MacArthurAt about four years, my mother on wash day would pile up the clothes on the floor for washing. I would go to the pile of women's underwear and play with them. Putting on the...
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Boys Wearing Dresses
Yesterday's post, Sara's First Time, refreshed my memory about young boys wearing dresses in previous eras.My mother put me in a very girly dress for my baptism, but after the festivities, she put my...
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Shapewear for Your Body
By Susan KingThis is another guest blog post by my friend Susan, who is the author of her own blog, Transitioning Into Tomorrow.Many of us girls require shapeware to get that perfect silhouette. Below...
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The Meaning of Crossdressing in The Meaning of Lila
The Meaning of Lila by John Forgetta and L.A. Rose mentions men wearing womenswear more than any other comic strip in my radar. For example, there were three mentions in the past three weeks.In case...
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My Best Friend
My cockapoo lost one eye to glaucoma last year and since then, I have been medicating her other eye to prevent glaucoma from striking again.A few days before the Independence Day weekend, my dog had a...
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Tuesday Thoughts
You Can Look It UpI just learned that the word I created, femulate, has been submitted for inclusion in an online dictionary "pending investigation."Dressing Room SelfiesDunno if you heard about the...
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Femulating For Life
Polk County (AR) Miss-ter Relay PageantRelay For Life is a community based fundraising event of the American Cancer Society. Each year, more than 5,000 Relay For Life events take place in over twenty...
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Broaching Brooches
By Susan King, guest poster and renowned bloggerI love brooches.They can really make an outfit special and tell the public something about you or how you are feeling that day. They can also be a...
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Renee Goes Fishing
A few months ago, I e-mailed you about how I got into crossdressing. At the end of that story, I mentioned a special lady and friend who runs a studio for crossdressers. I'll call her "D."For several...
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