Interesting I have not posted in this topic for over 1 year, but fairly recently I decided that as none of my male clothes fitted any longer all the suits, trousers, pants just had to go. I really never wear them these days anyway, but very very occasionally with a couple of clients I have to present as pseudo male. Well I decided to go to a tailor I knew (as my former self) and have him make up a suit and 2 pairs of trousers for these rare occasions. Now you need to understand he hasnt seen me for about 4 years. Anyway he said hi, and he said I will look up your old measurements and I said I doubt they are correct anymore. Anyway he didn't really understand and I didn't explain. But he got the old ones out and then started the measuring up for this new suit.
Well he exclaimed. Big increase on the chest, slimmer waist, a bigger bum, bigger thighs, smaller arm circumference etc . He then went and made the suit. When he did the fitting. He said this is really strange you look like a woman dressed in a mans suit!. Again I didn't say anything, but he has kept the measurements. I doubt I will be back for any male suits again, but perhaps a nice womens tailored skirt and jacket would be nice!
Another thing I have noticed is I tried on a couple of my old "male" shirts before throwing them out and had one for the meeting with my client. Anyway when I got home I discovered that I now had a sore in my armpit where the fabric of the shirt basically had been pulling on armpit and chafing my skin. This is the same issue I have had before from the top of my inner thighs before from wearing mens boy shorts that were obviously not designed from rounded female buttocks. Anyway back to the shirt. They obviously had to go, replacing them with a woman shirt that was cut with C Cup breasts in mind and everything was fine again. So yes clothes definitely only fit properly now after 4.5 years on HRT when wearing clothes designed for a woman. The shirts have gone too, but my new "male suit " remains for emergency meetings, even if it does look sort of strange on me now!
Judith
