My thoughts are not limited to fabric.
But where fabric is concerned, it is clear, women are expected to dress in a fashion suitable to generating erections in males.
The clothing isn't for you it's for him.
I extend this to shoes. You wear high heels and if you say you disagree with 'it isn't important what happens to your feet, just as long as it makes your ass look good', then you are lying to yourself and lack understanding of the history of the article.
Plus shoes are too small, and they confine your feet too much. I am not looking forward to the footwear portion of crafting an outfit that involves a dress or a skirt because eventually it will involve my not tiny feet that while not big are also wide and not designed to sit in a tiny v shaped front. My feet are 10.5 inches front to back and 5 inches wide at the front. They will NOT fit in any high heels I have seen in 50 years of looking. People will not be looking at my legs, they won't be able to fail to notice the odd looking shoes I'd need to be wearing.
Cost doesn't bother me so much. But when you consider what I spend on what I want...... I own a Nexus 7 AND a 10 inch Android tablet mainly because one is larger purse size and one is smaller purse sized eh.
I don't mind no pockets in female clothing, that's what a purse is for. I have taken to carrying a purse (and I correct people, not it isn't a bag, certainly not a man bag, and no I didn't want a back pack I wanted a purse). I have curbed myself of the male pattern capacity to cram things into my pockets and disregard the visual result. I now carry maybe keys (and not a massive key ring either) in right pocket (and only if going to mom's as they are keys to her place) in right side, and my usual 2.26 in coin (3 coins) for my hot chocolate in my left pocket. I no longer put things in my pockets as training for the day when I am wearing something best left with no need for pockets. I don't mind it actually.
I do wish the clothing was in numerical ranges that made sense, In Sears, they call a spade a spade in men's wear. Regular progresses to 'BIG' fit. In ladies wear regular is followed by 'Image' fit. What, are women unable to accept they are not sticks I suppose? Granted, I have realized that men's regular 'large' is unlikely to fit past a 14 year old teen.
I have pretty much concluded, that when it comes to fitting, something is seeing is believing. If I like the colour and the design of the cut, then you try it on, because until then, you have no reason to know if it will. I like that ordering from Sears is simple. You order, and if it fits at home, wear you can try it on at your leisure, you keep it, if it doesn't fit it goes in the bag and they get it back and you try a new size. Not as fast and all, but, what the heck, I like being able to try on clothes at home where I am not required to worry about opinions of people possibly critiquing my choices.
There is a current catalogue out of articles, and I like the design of a T shirt in ladies wear, I like the colour selection and they are all mono colour as I require. I'm going to order a test item, and if it fits, I intend to order one of each 7 colours. I will have the pleasure of wearing ladies clothing, and knowing it is ladies clothing, and it won't be so radical a difference from my usual polo shirts other than they might fit with less excessive material, because I find men's clothing is never nearly as form fitting. Sometimes you WANT the clothing to show your shape eh.
I am not so sure some women mind being visible under their clothes. I walked past a young lady once, main street, middle of the day, typical summery weather, slight gust of wind, and I knew precisely what shade of panties she had on. The thing is she was not wearing panties. And that skirt was definitely too short.
I sure know some women couldn't care less what they looked like in general in their clothing. Pants all chewed up with holes in them, that can' be accidental any more than boys walking around unable to keep their pants up even though they have a belt on the pants.
I think the average cross dressing person whether just a cross dresser male, or a MTF dressing enfemme is likely to be more interested in looking good than most cis females. Maybe most cis females don't care, don't think they need to care, because they get to state they are female and have no need to worry any might disagree. After all, if a person demands a cis female prove she is one, it's not like she can't. And she can just claim it's her prerogative to dress as she sees fit.
Me on the other hand, I have no breasts to make a female top look right, it won't sit right, it won't have the expected shape provided, and if I don't wear a bra I can't conceal artificial means of faking a bust. So I will be wearing a bra, even if it looks like a cis female would have elected to not do so. And the gear below, well it will play hell with a variety of fashion choices.
And then there's the wig, to replace the hair I have lost on my head in a so typical male fashion.
It annoys me that so many women walk out of the house with their hair screaming out, I did almost nothing with me hair.
So if I walk into Tim Horton's with a killer great looking outfit and to die for hair, I'm going to look weird even if I look female.
But they don't make wigs to look anything other than perfect. Well from what I have seen.
I want long hair, I want to be able to wear a wig that suggests I have hair down to middle of back, and yet I want to be able to wear it as if I just got up and threw it into a quick pony tail on my way to work. I don't want to always look elegant and perfect and the way it would look as if I had just did it up to wow my date. I mean, I would like to wear it with ribbons and other nice enhancement some times, but mostly I want to look 'ordinary'.
Until I have the head of hair, I think the clothing is all moot.
If someone told me a great outfit was going to cost me 300 bucks, or I could pay 100 bucks for an adequate male based outfit, I am not going to freak out. To me that's like either buying the economical model online from the cheaper company in China, or going deluxe and getting something maxed out from Japan likely Tamiya with some killer aftermarket add on super detailing sets.
You need to pay for what you want some times.
If only I could get caught in a downpour in a white shirt and be thinking 'oh crap they will see my tits'.
If only I had to take extra effort to do up my shoes in a skirt because I couldn't just bend over to do them.
