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I'm curious to know if other people do or have done this. Maybe it's a bit from my introverted nature and a bit from my loathing of this body, but I consistently choose clothes by how well they cover and make my frame/etc look vague. My favorite jacket has really been a comfort blanket of mine, because the sleeves are so long they cover most of my hands and overall it doesn't emphasis the T-shape I am.

I like my pants to be slimmer though, and hate baggy ones. I guess it's me running away from looking more masculine and hiding myself while out in public (me =/= myself. Me is, well me, and myself is how I refer to my body). This all feels too materialistic but it's a measure of control over how I look. Maybe a tangent, but fitted suits, while useful as a power symbol when I'm supposed to be seen as an adult by men, fell like a costume. Any thoughts?[/font]

Lol, no, you're definately not alone. From pretty much the time I became a teenager to the time when I finally decided to go public with my desire to transition, I wore baggy sweatpants, and a baggy hoodie. I mean like that's all I ever wore. On two or three occasions I was coerced into wearing dress pants, a dress shirt, and a tie, but never a suit. When I lost a lot of weight, things got sort of ridiculous because I still didn't want to buy more appropriately sized clothes, so my pants looked so baggy it was almost like I was wearing a dress. ::) But now I mostly wear skinny jeans. ;)

Baggy is good.  I've always hated slim fit male clothing - I didn't like my build.
Baggy is still good - it hides the moobs well, so I don't look particularly different. =)

I was definitely going for baggy before transition, but now things are a bit tighter! :D

Well, that's because you're in perfect contact with reality.

I see lots of MTF who dress very feminine and the skirts, tight shirts etc show too wide shoulders, a manly trunk, no waist, narrow hips and sometimes scragly, thin men's legs (and knees)

Dressing androgynously  as a MTF  or even masculine emphasises the newly gained feminine traits.

Dressing very feminine will emphasise all masculine traits and will make you being read as MTF.

I like to hide in fleeces a size or two to big.  Which... doesnt work in the south 3/4 of the year.   :-\

Between being the fat kid growing up and the trans stuff, what I wear is mostly to hide my body. Even now that I am much slimmed down me. In male mode I don't dress to emphasize anything about my body.

In female mode, totally girlie girl and flaunting what I have as appropriately as I can

I wear the baggiest dress clothes I can and my boobs still show to a degree.  It's frustrating.  They can hide body apperance early on, but at a certain point there isn't much you can do.  You just have to prepare for it.  Sorry, I know that is rough to go through as I struggle myself.

Another thing I should note, but baggy clothes can also create the illussion that you are fatter than you are.  It sounds counter productive, I know, but I've been noticing this on myself. 

Quote from: Ms Grace on April 27, 2014, 06:38:45 AM
I was definitely going for baggy before transition, but now things are a bit tighter! :D

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hi-5 ! same here !  ;D

Quote from: Dahlia on April 27, 2014, 07:02:04 AM
Well, that's because you're in perfect contact with reality.

I see lots of MTF who dress very feminine and the skirts, tight shirts etc show too wide shoulders, a manly trunk, no waist, narrow hips and sometimes scragly, thin men's legs (and knees)

Dressing androgynously  as a MTF  or even masculine emphasises the newly gained feminine traits.

Dressing very feminine will emphasise all masculine traits and will make you being read as MTF.

I don't think that is always true, I've seen lots of trans girls who can pull it off! But appropriateness and fit and dressing for their figure is important. :)