Quote from: Oriah on August 06, 2015, 02:52:12 AM
I dress to the 9's when I go.  Any excuse to get dolled up is a good one, right?

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I have only ever presented as female to all my therapist appointments and seeing my doctor too. I think its really important to look your best and comfortable with it.  One very important thing for me though is that I always ensure that I have had a full manicure and pedicure before I go to my visits and I believe that colour co-ordinated lipstick, nails and toes   and your overall outfit is important. (Obviously no pedi necessary in winter)

I am full time so I don't step out of the house not dolled up... But before I was full time no, not ever....
Keri AKA Dodie

My friend got gate keeped for wearing jeans (at least that's what she told me) at the same place I went to, but when it was under different management. I did dress well as I always do in Melbourne.

On the other hand my endo asked me to wear dresses a couple times, and I just didn't because he was at a large hospital, every one else is sick and in track suits, Just seemed like a really inappropriate place to dress up. I seen another TS there once, look liked she had come from the horse races in the outfit she had on. She was about 6'3 stood out so bad with that dress on.

That's the thing I'm so glad I never dealt with having someone tell me to do something like wear a dress. I wear dresses all the time because I like wearing dresses not because I need some idiot telling me to wear a dress. That's my doctors office in my avatar.

In 6 years, I've only seen a therapist once, for one hour. That was to get an SRS letter. A couple of years back. Other than that, never. If I did, I'd wear whatever I felt like wearing that morning. F**k dressing up for people. For those that do, do you feel like you're putting on a performance?

QuoteOn the other hand my endo asked me to wear dresses a couple times

That's one of the creepiest things I've ever read on this website. I'd lodge a formal complaint. You endo's only business is monitoring your endocrine function. That's it. He works in the Endocrinology Department. Not the "Endocrinology and outfit ideas" department. Seriously, I'd make a complaint. 

I don't feel its a performance for me . I wear dresses most of the time and On the days I have an appointment her office is across the street from a movie theater that has a nice bar with wifi and I always go there after the appointment for Irish  coffee and wifi. It's got a big mirror on the length of the opposite wall and I like seeing how I look. Maybe a little narcissistic.

I guess you'd call it Business Casual which is aligned with my girlie-girl self.

I've had therapists in the past demand that I play dress-up. They're not my therapists anymore. I'm me no matter what I'm wearing. Maybe I'm not out to work yet, or maybe I just like to look like The Duke. It doesn't change who I am and it should have no bearing on my transition. Having to play dress-up to fit a part is what I've been doing my whole life pre-transition. Why would I continue that in order to transition?

My appointment is today and I put my makeup on in the coffee shop I go to and I found I forgot my eyelashes , so I'm forced to improvise with eye pencil around the eye instead of the bottom. Looks pretty good. I also am wearing my new psychedelic colored dress I bought at Target and fishnet stockings and my old  black work boots. I wear the boots because I need a new pair of flats. I found I need a wider width because my feet swell from arthritis.( I just figured that out)

Often I just have jeans and t-shirt.  Today I wore boots.  Often just keds.  Always light makeup and matching earrings. 
Once I start going to work as a woman I'll likely just have on what I am wearing to work.

I usually go to the gym at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base just before my counselor meeting. Since I don't know how the military will react to it, I've always dressed male. However, I have some semi-permanent...um... appearance modifications that are tell-tale, to wit: I have long hair, polished acrylic nails, and a gold stud in each ear.

The point being, on those days, I'll dress in male clothes. The two other times I went to my counselor, I went completely "en femme". My counselor mentioned that in my letter to my physicians.