Getting started

[Jafrina]

I too am just starting with CD, I went to Walmart with a rough idea of my size and bought what I wanted, like it was the most natural thing, if somebody would have asked, I would say shopping for gift for friend or wife, I shop in my everyday clothes not CD. I have had some help from Mistress Marquesa, (http://www.goddessmarquesa.com/)she has some very good very influential recordings to help with the transformation, you may want to try them.

[nmason]

I have crossdressed at times most of my life. I have officialy come out to my patner and step daughter and decided the other day that it is time to creating a wardrobe for the woman inside that I have had locked up for so long. After countless hours window shopping on the net I went shopping and sucsessfully purchased the right size bra, but not the right size panties.
The whole experience felt so natural. I have been shopping with and for my partners, and everytime felt comfortable being the ladiesware departments. I feel uncomfortable being in the mens departments. I hate shopping for mensware.
It will get easier with time

[Jafrina]

I do not have a problem with sopping for or buying womens clothing and lingrie. I don't know if can pull it off full time in public crossdressed. I have a lot of transformation to go through to pull that off, but it is not out of the question.

[jill_cd_girl]

There are several things you can do.

1. Bring a list of things you need to buy. Others will think that you're buying it for someone else or for something other than yourself. In Hollywood, for example, some people thought I was buying for a film/theatre set.

2. Talk on the phone while you're shopping. This will make it seem like you're buying for someone else who is trying to direct you on what to buy.

3. Ask one question at the end: what is the return policy on these items in case it doesn't fit her or she doesn't like them?

4. Go shopping on a specific holiday/special day, like before Christmas, Valentine's Day, etc. This will make it more like you're buying the stuff as a gift.

5. Spread out your shopping: don't buy all your stuff at one place. For example, you can buy underwear in one place, a skirt or single outfit in another, etc.

[tekla]

In Hollywood who would care?

[GingerCD]

In Hollywood who would care?

Amen to that. 

[jill_cd_girl]

haha! Great point. Perhaps that's why I was so at ease shopping there! (Orange County was a different story though)

[tekla]

People who don't live there, or don't understand it, don't get how freaking huge LA is, how vastly different it is from place to place.  Hollywood and that area is not all that far from Orange, but they might as well be on different planets.  I'm kinda a Marina Del Rey/Venice/Santa Monica person myself, but I love going down to the fashion district, pretty awesome shopping.

[Eva Marie]

People who don't live there, or don't understand it, don't get how freaking huge LA is, how vastly different it is from place to place.  Hollywood and that area is not all that far from Orange, but they might as well be on different planets.  I'm kinda a Marina Del Rey/Venice/Santa Monica person myself, but I love going down to the fashion district, pretty awesome shopping.

I drove up to LA for the first time and it seemed to be nothing but freeways and traffic jams.

[Jafrina]

After the shopping is easier, what about the makeup and hair? Hair? Do you grow it out and style it or buy a wig? Makeup? Lipstick is easy, I think, but to transform the whole head into a fine woman, must take a truely femminine touch. Where do you go for that kind of presonal femminine help?

[tekla]

Hey, there are spaces between the freeways, some of them pretty nice.