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How many of you look back on your childhood memories of dreaming of being a girl and find certain interest missing? Was there ever a time when you imagined being a girl (as apparently most boys do not), and thought about all the innocent, childlike reasons why you wouldn't want that?
This just crossed my mind again while running through the signs that I am or am not trans and I remembered the awful clothes girls had to wear in my early childhood. If you've ever seen a photo of a "dressed-up" little girl in the early 90s, you know exactly what I am talking about. I remember in preschool sometimes seeing a girl twirl in a soft cotton dress or something like that and feel very pained envy, but then Easter or Christmas would roll around and I would see my one girl cousin and think how glad I was that I was a boy. Such awful-looking, uncomfortable-seeming dresses, and they were all the same!
When I was six I asked my parents what they would have named me if I had been born a girl. Though I can't remember it, I am sure it was Ashley or Jessica given the gave me one of the most popular boy names of 1987, so I wouldn't expect better on their end. It got really embarrassing and pretty mean with the natural curiosity, but they cruelly referred to me by that name and asked me if I wanted a dress. That was a hard "NO!" not only because they stigmatised not only my feminine side, but normal childhood curiosity, but also because I knew any dress I could get that day in the posh New Jersey suburbs in 1993 would be so awful.
Anyone experience something like that or the opposite when girls' fashion was better?
I absolutely love ruffle butt undies. When my 2 daughters were young I always had them in them with cute little dresses. Just an iconic article of clothing that as a boy I couldn't wear and desperately wanted to.
Trisha
I remember being enamoured with all the girls and not wanting to hang out with the boys. The clothes were probably the dying gasps of the hippie era since this would have been the mid to late 70’s. I remember girls in bell bottom jeans with fabric flowers sewn on all over the legs as well as some stiff looking polyester dresses and then later and more importantly satin gym shorts! They looked so great in those, I wanted a pair badly. OMG, I think asked my parents for a pair but they were for girls. I remember loving my velour pants though, that was about it.
— Abbie 🥰
My mom had a pair of baby blue bloomers from the 50’s that I used to steal, they had ruffles all over. I recently bought something similar just for the memories.
— Abbie 🥰
Kids clothes were awfull, Grey flannel shorts ect horrible, that how I started wearing girls clothes when still at school, watching my mum putting beautiful nylons and girdles on wishing I could wear them too. Later when I was 12 or 13 ish, when she went out shopping I would rush into her bedroom and put her nylons ,girdle and panties on and if I had time one of her frocks, I wore her clothes till I was old enough to buy my own, the feeling was amazing, and I still wear nylons, girdles and panties 60 years on and it still feels just amazing
I was fortunate to be born in the era of lovely dresses and lingerie. The early nineties was a relatively dormant period for me in my dressing. I think there was a lot of 'power' dressing with the girls fashion and it was masculinised. By the mid eighties I was dressing more and still found some nice dresses to wear. I never had any thoughts about not wanting to be a girl though. It seems throughout the decades there is one dress that has always been in vogue - the LBD.
I was a kid in the sixties and seventies.Most of the girls my age had quite nice clothes.In junior school the girls in my class dressed very pretty.When they got to ten or eleven they wore adult pantyhose which I so envied.In high school the girls wore pantyhose under their knee socks.As much as I envied that looking back it seems to be a ludicrous fashion.Nowadays high school girls wear black tights which I would have loved in my teen years.
Great topic Aolfe, even though I didn't start actually dressing until my teens I definitely had a fascination with satin/silky/lace sleepwear as a kid. I saw the frilly and silky things that my sister wore to bed and I became very jealous of her over time but was never able to indulge at the time. I was never really interested in anything girly other than pretty sleepwear so I think that definitely shaped my dressing and love of beautiful lingerie as I got older.
