My response to cross dressing

[manpretty]

I have seen on here some resentful remarks about crossdressing, not just from males as I would expect, but from females as well. To be fair men have had to accept women cross dressing for decades now and that is supposed to be totally OK seeing women living in jeans, leggings, shorts, sports trousers, joggers etc. Personally I grew up seeing women wearing skirts and dresses when they went out shopping, to a pub restaurant or cafe and just in ordinary everyday life. They looked great then and I always loved those clothes which is why I now prefer to dress in skirts and dresses myself. I love feeling the flowing materials (nothing sexual) and wearing the very kind of clothes that I wish today`s women would wear themselves. Give me a chiffon skirt or dress and a lovely lacey petticoat (waist slip or full slip) and I feel totally happy and more natural than ever.

Can you order it online somehow?

That might be a ridiculous suggestion, but I seem to remember my brother talking about it. He's a big fan/lives in England.

Ha yes, I’m currently wearing short length M&S ‘Mom’ jeans 😂

You used to be able to get it in some of the major supermarkets but none of them stock it these days. I did a search and it looks like it may be stocked in a Budgens in the next town. I’ll have to give that a try when I’ve time to go look.

I think Asda stock it. We used to get it from Waitrose and a butchers on Watling Street in the City but both have stopped doing it.

What about the Quangle Wangle?
His hat was 102 feet wide with ribbons and bibbons on every side
And bells and buttons and loops and lace etc

Not to mention living on the Crumpetty tree.

Beaver hat iirc.

I'm not sure. I know where his armies are. Up his sleevies.

😂

I see what you did there. To hand indeed.

You look at that photo and THAT's what you notice??

I'd like to see a tra walk up to him and tell him, as a cross dresser, he's under the trans umbrella. Or perhaps not, as he's armed...if not handed. I wonder how he'd pull the trigger 🤔

So often one hand is out of sight

I am amazed how hostile some comments are on here. Some think I am having a go at how women dress now (must be feminists) I am not telling you how to dress but in the same degree, should you have the right to say I should not be allowed to wear what is classed as Female dress? You cant have it all ways. If you dont want a man to tell you how to dress, what gives you the right to say how he should be dressed? This is the 21st century and surely it gives everyone the right to dress how they want without prejudice. I came onto this site to bring this point across, all women who want to wear trousers, jeans, leggings, shorts etc, fine but do not condemn men if they want to wear skirts and dresses.

They can dress how they like.

They should just stick to the men's toilets and stay the fuck out of the women's.

Putting on a dress does not require a man to don fake tits anymore than putting on trousers requires a woman to shove socks down her crotch though.

But that's our exact point. Where what you like, but don't claim you're the opposite sex while doing so.

As the thread has been resurrected can we just take a moment to once again enjoy @Hedgehogforshort post from much earlier in the thread.

It took you nearly two months to become "amazed how hostile some comments are on here"? Have you been composing your response all this time?

Or perhaps it took you two months to read all the responses? Or maybe it took you two months to decide you were "amazed"?

I'm curious. Is it because it's Wednesday?

This. But tbf to OP, I have seen MNers get irate at men wearing dresses and I think they totally miss the point. I think men should be free to wear dresses, skirts, blouses, make up jewellery. None of these make them a woman.

I saw a man recently in my local cathedral city wearing daisy dukes, stiletto sandals and a red spaghetti strap vest. No one batted an eyelid and it made me feel strangely proud of my fellow citizens

I mean I wouldn’t be offering him a job if he turned up to an interview like that and I’d probably raise an eyebrow if he served me in a shop (same for a woman dressed that way to be fair), but for a walk in the park? Knock yourself out chum

I'm not condemning you or telling you what you can or cannot wear. You are a grown up and are perfectly able to choose your own clothes.

I personally hate skirts and dresses so don't wear them and instead can usually be found in joggers or jeans and a t shirt. So if you are comfier in skirts and dresses, with or without petticoats, then honestly why are you overthinking it so much and assuming women are condemning your fashion choices? Some might, most couldn't give a toss, and either way why would you care what some random people that you don't know might think of your clothing choices?

It's 2026, wear what you want. On a personal you level, if you notice people are looking at you it might be because they think you look ridiculous, but it might just as well be because they think you look stunning. Only you can decide which version of what someone else is thinking inside their own head is the version that you are going to attribute to someone looking at you.

And if someone says it out loud that you look ridiculous then it's up to you whether you engage or ignore.

If you want to talk about women condemning what a man wears shall we look at just some of the things that no doubt the majority of woman on this board has had various men, sometimes from through van and car windows or just passing by in the street, or our male boss etc, tell them:

they look ridiculous / tarty / slutty / a mess / a dog's dinner/ mutton dressed as lamb / a slag / a prostitute / a plain jane / a slob / could have tried harder / tried too hard / skirts too short /skirts too long / that style doesn't suit your shape / did you get dressed in the dark? / you look like you're on the pull / did you wear that for me love? Shall I continue?

If a dress or a skirt is what does it for you, then it matters not what others may think, knock yourself out mate.

Ha, I initially read in a cathedral, and did think that's inappropriate whoever is wearing it! But in a park, as you say, crack on mate.

I mean people will look, but they do at any bold clothing decision.

To Angelofrepose - I cannot answer you directly but forgive me, I did not realize I had to come up with a response within a certain time limit. Unlike some, I do have a life beyond the computer and I enjoy spending my time enjoying life and not slagging people off for no reason.

I don't mind cross dressing - it can look very cool. There are some very arty types round here who do the 'playing with androgyny/femininity' thing very well. That doesn't generally involve kitten heels, fishnets or short skirts.

BUT

I reserve the right to (in my head) think whatever I want to think about your sense of style - as I will with anyone. They can of course think what they like about me

If you have fake boobs, then I reserve the right to think you've got a fetish and to not really want you anywhere near me.

I reserve the right to either tell you, or someone in authority, if you go into women's toilets or changing rooms. You don't belong there.

Edited to add:

Oh, and if you post your reviews about lingerie on the M&S website then you can feck off and get your jollies elsewhere. We know what you're up to - and it isn't providing a public service...

It's your thread. It is considered polite to actually stick around after posting and engage with those who respond. Instead you posted the original post them pissed off for weeks. That is not the done thing on here. It usually indicates someone posting in bad faith.

If it's just about you wearing what you (not me, I have to say) conceptualise as women's clothes, why do you feel the need to come on here to tell us all about it? As the previous posts have amply demonstrated, nobody here gives a tinker's cuss about about what you wear, as long as you don't try to wear them in a single sex space demarcated for women.