holidays

[BridgetYvonne]

Everytime Halloween comes around, I have to laugh. In Sept '12 my then GF/now mentor Vikki & I were watching a TV show where the women were in early 60s fashion. (not sure if it was Pan-Am, Madmen, or the movie Boeing Boeing) I commented how sexy I thought early 60s women's fashions were. Vikki shoots back "Do you know how uncomfortable those girdles & bras must have been!!!!' I wanted to tell her yes but I hadn't let her know I CD, so I backed down. About a month later she tells me that we have been invited to a costume party & she tells me that she found me an early 60s bra/girdle & a pseudo flight attendant uniform. I wanted to kiss her but I told her "Not only no, but hell no!!"
A day before the party she told me to Nair shower. I played dumb & asked her "What do you drink this?" She said "Don't you dare! You pour this on the area you want hair to go away. Well, I went into the shower. I took longer than I should have so she wouldn't know that I knew what I was doing. I came out of the shower & saw a 'granny panty" I yelled "I am not wearing this!" I came out, wearing the 'granny panty'  into where Vikki had set up her makeup. She hands me the bra/girdle which I struggle? to put on. After she stuffs socks in the bra cups, she has me sit at the table & she applies the makeup. As I am sitting there, I laugh inside thinking "Vikki, you might think this is a punishment but I could just burst to tell you I CD!!!!' After she was done, she had me put on the white blouse, dark blue skirt & matching blazer. She pins on a kiddie airline pin. She then gets out a black wig, pins it to my combed hair & tops it off w/ a Jackie Kennedy style pillbox hat. As I stood there looking at myself in the mirror, I was aching to tell her. I wasn't sure how she would take it that I CD. I pretended to struggle as we walked down the sidewalk to her SUV. We got to the party & everyone had a good time. There were a few guys in drag but it was obvious that they were in it for laughs. I wanted so bad to tell Vikki & the world that I was comfortable in these clothes but chickened out.  Wondering if any others had the same experience?

[Oliviah]

It is a very common thing for us to use Halloween to dress up before we come out.   Halloween is the best trans holiday.

[SueNZ]

Hi Bridget,
Last weekend I was at a mixed team golf theme and we did not have a female in our foursome so I went in pink tights a black lace dress with a curly blonde wig and my breast forms. Since she knows of my desires she was stressing that I would try and fully dress with full makeup etc. I said to her that what I was wearing was enough as I wanted to satisfy my urge to dress but not show to my friends that I was a passionate cross dresser. When I arrived I got a lot of comments that 'I made an ugly woman', 'did you borrow that from your wife', 'you have better tits than the other women here', 'man you have guts' etc. Little did they know all the clothes were mine and I was so comfortable it was amazing.
I would have loved to have been fully accessorised but there is always fall out if you push things to far. I had a couple of mates who groped my breasts, tried to lift my short dress and at the bar afterwards a lady asked if she could feel them. I accepted her request as long as it was reciprocal (which it was).
I enjoyed the ability to dress in public without the serious stigma that comes if you do it away from a special event. Dressing as a woman will always be my goto setup to any special function from now on.