Ok first off the second the clothes come off, your body has a tendency to ruin everything.
You can't really hide something that is very THERE.
But, life being what it is, we don't tend to be in situations where your crotch is on display. Aside from public pools (change rooms) I suppose.
So over all, I am just curious, do many limit themselves 'willingly' to the shift from one shell to the other?
I am in a male shell. It being an ordinary male shell, it has ordinary male sell sex organs. Hey fun is fun I suppose, and I suppose it is not the end of the world to be a lesbian that has a super deluxe full function genuine response male sex organ instead of a dildo on a harness.
I'd be in seventh heaven if the wife were to say to me 'you can't keep wearing those clothes and perfume at the same time. lets' at least get you looking correctly when you go outside, just so long as I get to have proper hetero male sex with you when I feel like it'. Yeah, I'd love to hear that. It would be a cool trade. I could be female all day and when I was at home, I could let her play with the gear if she felt like it.
I want to look like a female correctly. My idea of a perfect day is turning down a man making a pass at me. No I don't want a man, I just want to be that good looking ie that correctly female looking. I don't mind looking like someone's grand mother. I think 'hot' is 20 years too late for me

I want the stupid foot killing high heels I suppose some times, and the ability to wear a skirt and look awesome. I want to browse in a jewellery store, and not look like a husband shopping for her. I want to be able to look at clothing and ask a sales person, does this come in yellow? Of be able to try on shoes and ask, they are a bit tight, do you have anything in my size?
I live for 'can I help you miss?'. I don't today see that in sight though

I have heard a friend's experiences of going the full journey. Man I can NOT picture affording laser hair removal.
Might be nice to not need to shave though. It seems to grow back so fast I can almost see it doing it.
But I often shave just so I can sit here and not feel it on my legs. Which is enough most days I guess.
It's not like I need to fret over not shaving for a day. I mean, no one will be seeing my legs most of the year.
This coming summer though, I WILL be finding shorts that are NOT long on the leg length and yelling to all 'old man's shorts'. I will master my sewing machine or else. I plan to buy shorts and adjust the legs damn it. I rather enjoyed walking around last summer with shaved legs in shorts. And this year the shorts will be shorter and more form fitting if I have to do it myself.
But I am not sure how much I can do with almost nothing to work with. I will need a wig or forget the process entirely. Soooo hot as hell day or not, a bra will be the least of my problems staying cool on a hot day. I also need to ->-bleeped-<- or get off the pot on buying a wig and finding out finally, will I look like a farce with one on or not? Because that in a nutshell is the dividing line. I will NOT walk down the street and be something to laugh at. NO one wants to get laughed at on a regular basis.
And if I walk to Tim Horton's just once as a female, it's all the way all the time or not at all. I am not planning to be a part time female.
I don't call it cross dressing. To me cross dressing is something MEN do for their own reasons. I might be in a male shell, but, I am not a man, and I refuse to be labelled one in any fashion.
But I can't forsee any day when I will be in a position where I can say 'go ahead doc, time I got this penis and these testicles removed'. But that is also likely me speaking from a lack of knowledge in some cases. That, and I can't think of a day when the wife will not want sex the way our marriage started out having it. And I can respect her needs there.
The hardest part of a relationship comes when a person understands, it is not all about the person, you need to allow for the other individual too.
Pity is, if I was suddenly rich, my life likely would be a lot of moot.
My ideal world is a house out of town ie rural, tree surrounded, and this vision concealed so I could walk my property naked if I so wished, and have a wood working shop where I could spend my days in non gender specific bliss. I wouldn't need girls clothes or mens clothes or any clothes, and the shop would keep me out of my wife's hair and everyone would be happy.