How long have you cross dressed?

[KarlMars]

Moving from "borrowing" someone else's clothes to having my own was a big step. Having things that you choose is a big part of making it all normal. Even if you can't just hang it all in your closet with the rest of your things, they are YOUR things and it means a lot.

I agree it's great to have your own everything. I've never borrowed clothes, and I'm glad.

[tracygurlyboy]

My mum started dressing me up when I was about 7 so almost 40 years now.
Still love the thrill and feeling of slipping into a cute, gurly dress and heels.

[chris.deee]

Age 10-26: dressed in private
Age 26-30: dressed in public after coming out to my wife
Age 30-49: hiatus due to raising kids and building career (hey, I was busy :-)
Age 49-53 (present): dresses in public

That's 25 years. My GD was pretty low but non-zero during my hiatus. 

[whorton59]

How long?  I discovered my fascination with girls cloths and underwear about the summer of 1972.  (I was 13 at the time.) Moms stuff was ghastly at that time.*

But I certainly was aware of what the girls my age were wearing.  I still find the simple soft cup bra and colorful panties to be the most fascinating.  I have almost exclusively underdressed since 1975 when I first wore a pair of panties to night school under my jeans one night.  What a thrill that was!

So, my gosh! 42 YEARS. . . And interestingly no wife or girlfriend has had any significant problem with my wearing lingerie. . .

* Mother knew that I had a fascination for lingerie from about 73 or so when she discovered my hiding place and confronted me about it.  She never really said anything later, although she did ask why I didn't just try her things. .
Hum. . Ever seen how a 38B fits on a scrawny 14 year old kid?  I was comfortably wearing a 32 B and a 34A at that time. . . To say her lingerie hung on me like a bad suit was an understatement. .  Not to mention she had lacy stuff and all the girls were wearing smooth tricot bras. . They felt So much better to the touch!

[Donna]

To nail down an absolute number of years is difficult. I am in my early 60's now and love wearing women's clothes because wearing women's clothes feels right, fits my body, and it feels normal for the Donna within to be out in public in women's clothes. I probably started by trying on some of my Mother's clothes in my early teens when my male classmates were doing Little League baseball and constantly talking about football. The jock stuff never suited me. My mother's clothes didn't fit me at all, so I started to try my sister's clothes, but she was then and is now nowhere close to my size. I probably started buying my own women's clothes in my late teens and early twenties.
I have been wearing women's clothes at least part time for maybe 50 years. Lately I go on motorcycle tours wearing only women's clothes. I go surfing wearing a women's wet suit.

Women's clothes just match the person inside more than men's clothes.

[Amy Chislett]

I used to be mistaken for female for decades; and that caused despair.  Despair that signals revival?

Last year, a temp employer gave me a uniformed shirt.  With it on, I told  her it was a woman's.  Her response was "So?  Wear it; it is the last one we have."   I know every one here has more affirming stories.  Her outing signalled a change.  Cute shirt - cleavage revealing - wish I still had it.  I think she could have gotten in trouble/ caused trouble.  But I am grateful to her for pointing out the obvious.  This year I started buying.

[Heather14]

I started when I was around 8 or 9. I put on some of my mom's panties and I was hooked. I had some of her things stashed away in the barn. I would go play but actually was dressing up in her lingerie. Really did not start to have my own things until I was an adult. But now if I am home I am cross dressed. I wish I could pass in public but I really can't.

[Brenda3156]

I started at age 11. I would wear my mothers and sisters clothes. Almost stopped in high school then picked up in college and been doing it since. Came out to my wife and she accepts it and supports me. Been dressing for almost 50 years.

[Brenda3156]

Really I guess it was since I was 9 years old. Hard to think back that far since I'm 60! I would get my mother's and sister's bras and panties out of the laundry hamper. It wasn't always underwear though. I also liked fuzzy sweaters. Have always dressed. There would be times I would try to stop and throw away the clothes I had bought. Then a week or two later I would buy new. Now I always have something on. Panties and a woman's silky tank top during the day under my clothes and lingerie and panties at night. My wife is very supportive. Dressing isn't enough and I feel the need to be more of a woman. Starting the transition process.

[Abi]

I remember volunteering to play the part of Romona the Pest in the school play in second grade. There are still photos of me in my skirt in my parents' photo albums ... I'm sure they thought it was cute and funny at the time. Little did they know what was going on in my head!

[Thea]

When I was young, people who didn't know me would mistake me for a girl all the time. I started dressing in public behind my parents backs at about 11 years old. A typical outfit for the mall or hanging out at the park was a halter-top, short shorts and girl's sandals.
I was under a lot of pressure to be he-man macho and started to question my sanity when I was in my teens. I did my first purge when I was 16. After that I did the whole purchase and purge cycle over and over again until just this year.
I'm 56 now and feel it's high time I got on with it and accepted myself as I am. I dress full time when I'm at home. I'm out in different ways to different people and go between androgynous and full fem when I go out. I still present as male at work.

[Jin]

Probably from day One. I was born into an all female household (Mom, Sis, Auntie, and 2 girl cousins) and money was tight. I mostly wore hand downs from the older girls until high school. Sometimes I still do, we love to raid each others closets!

[valerie anne]

Since I was a small boy.

I loved to put on my mum's bras & her lipstick.

What really hooked me was when my best friend caught me in a bra and makeup, undid my shirt, slipped down my bra strap and latched onto my nipple. I was in heaven. I didn't want him to ever release!

I have since progressed to panties, suspender belts, sheer stockings, heels, plunge bras, see through blouses etc., but my real love is my bras, boobs, nipples and being suckled.

I pump regularly and I now need to wear a bra full time. I am using a dual electric breast pump as I post.

I love to dress up in full lacy underwear, sheer top and makeup, then to pump myself hard. Sometimes I have been lucky enough to have a companion to satisfy my needs, but getting my breasts suckled seems to be difficult. Women are more accommodating than men.

If only I could lactate.

Does anybody else share my breast suckling fetish? 


 



     

[Geeker]

Off and on since I was ten, so twenty-three years give or take a few months. I've only ever felt like myself while "dressed".

[KarlMars]

Off and on since I was ten, so twenty-three years give or take a few months. I've only ever felt like myself while "dressed".

Welcome to Susan's. Do you identify as male,female or non binary?

[Geeker]

I've identified as female since around age ten, but over the years have learned how to act male. My father, when I was younger, thought it was both sad and hilarious that I had to be taught how to spit like a boy by a woman and in retrospect it kind of is.

[Elena1270]

I have been cross dressing since I was 12 or 13.

[Alice-jones]

I guess the first time i can recall i was about 7-8, we used to have a cupboard under the stairs for clothes that wanted ironing and clothes that where not used much, i used to go in there and dress up

Alice x

[Michelle_P]

I started at age 6, but I had help. The two sisters who babysat me when Mom and Dad both had to be at work (rotating shifts) liked to dress me in their old things and apply makeup.  I enjoyed it, until their mom saw me, and for some reason I wasn't allowed over any more.

My therapist has explained to me that when I wear clothing that matches my gender identity, I am not cross-dressing. Head explodes So, when I present as male (AMAB) is when I'm cross-dressing, so I started at a very early age. 

[christinefornow]

The first time I tried on girl's clothing I was about 6-7 yrs old. Something inside me said "try me." All it took was that first time and somehow I knew that I liked girl's clothes. Went from my sister's to mom's and then girlfriend's. Afterwords my dressing just seemed to keep growing. Today I dress under at all times and fully dress as often as is possible. My wardrobe has grown to the point where I can go from really formal to just sitting around casual.