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How did you find your personal style?

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Hi girls. Just wondering how each of you arrived at your personal style?

To begin with I was buying all kinds of tat, things that didnt co-ordinate or didn't suit me colour or shape wise. Such a lot of money i wasted, if only I'd had a personal stylist! Now, with my wife's help, I've really honed my tastes and I would categorise my style as vintage (Clara from Doctor Who is my style icon if any if you know her!)

But how did you all get to the place you are now and how would you describe your personal style?

 

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(@cynthia0101)
Estimable Member     Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Joined: 6 years ago

I would call my style classy chic.  Some of my styles are based off my wife (of course) but most are my own sense of classic style.  I do so love a great pair of jeans with a fancier top for a dressed-down look but I am just as comfortable in a knee-length dress for a classier night at home.  I am also a huge fan of lace so that gets used quite a lot.

I was terrible when I first started to buy clothes and it took me a long time to finally get to where I am today,  meaning I no longer mix prints,  What was I thinking.  I had a co-worker that I always used to ask for fashion advice,  she was the greatest.

Cynthia

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(@laynebeth)
Active Member     St Augustine, Federated States of Micronesia, United States of America
Joined: 6 years ago

I'm a wee bit naughtier. When I began dressing I wore very revealing and provocative clothes. I was going for and enjoyed the shock factor, I wanted everyone to know that i was a guy in a dress. As I got better and became more passable, my style started to reflect the environment around me. If I was going to the mall, then simple make up and casual dress, the beach then very light make up, a cute strappy top and shorts. I kept my enter wickedness for the clubs or for cruising where the short skirts and see thru top with heavy make up was needed.

In the beginning it was also hard to have gurlfriends go shopping with me. All I look for was something to show off my assets or the lingerie I was where underneath. Today I get a lot less attention, but I am happier in knowing that I can walk into anywhere and no one will question my gender.

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(@985anythinggoes)
Noble Member     New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
Joined: 6 years ago

I started with a few whore-ish outfits, and as I found out no real women would be in these outfits in public. I started to let some outfits define my style, I love heels, but not stripper/hooker heels, but light platforms, that are sexy but not trashy. Over time you start to have/build more self respect for your alter-ego and the clothes they wear. I'm a thirty and flirty, type of style girl. Cute tops and bottoms, that show me off and say hey I'm here to have a good time. I do try to buy classy items too. Grab a few magazines, those old paper things you have to flip, and see what you like and go that way. Your style is what makes you, you.

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Polly, good question.

I think that we tend to project the styles we like to see on females into what will be our personal style. And even so it is a matter of learning/adjusting. Most will relate to having started with slutty type outfits. Some never changed that. To each their own.

But it is a process very similar to what teenage girls will go through. Experimenting with different looks... now, they do have some immediate feedback from their moms or sisters and their peers. We usually don't. But after a while you kind of learn what looks good on you, and what you like to wear.

Gaby ♥

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(@pattyphose)
Famed Member     Long Island, New York, United States of America
Joined: 9 years ago

I began wearing pantyhose with pumps and a shirt that looked like a short dress at 4. I loved to prance about the house showing of my pretty lady legs.

With several steps along the way over the years, at 18 I was dressing fully fem. It was always, shiny pantyhose, sexy shoes and short dress or skirt. I wanted to be Daisy Duke. I used to ask myself if Daisy would wear this and how would she look in it. I got a few wigs that looked like Daisy's style. That's how I got my look started.

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(@oldybutgoody)
Reputable Member     Coventry, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Joined: 6 years ago

My style turned out to be as the girl next door which naturaly matured into the attractive housewife,  at least that is the look I think I am 🙂

Next stop is playing the roll of a Glamorous Granny.   Like night follows day I flow along waiting for the clock to stop.  (which is why I am forever changing the batteries.)

Sally xx

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Gaby I think you are spot on with the observation about how teenage girls develop their fashion sense.. i have seen this happening with my own daughters.

When i have made a fashion faux pas before now and my wife has found it amusing, i do have to remind her that she has had thirty plus years to get things right whereas in reality (even though I've been crossdressing nearly my entire life) I am only just starting to dress with a personal style in mind rather than just wearing clothes that look good on other people.

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Still developing it, but very much the happy go lucky 40 something librarian look - not the serious, shy look which I originally went for.

I simply look at my reflection when out, look at what GGs wear, and base my clothing purchases based on what I see and feel is right.

The transformation is a slow, ongoing process, but great fun!

Love Laura

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Polly,

I was also able to follow the process my daughter went through when growing up and developing her own style.

Trying makeup, doing her nails, buying/borrowing clothes trying to find out her best styles, colors, etc. And I have always been very close to her, so I was also a part of the process, maybe more than most fathers. I went shopping with her, and she valued my opinion.

Not saying that her style is just like mine. Not at all, and that’s good actually. It is her own after all.

Gaby 💜

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(@fiona06)
Famed Member     Bolton, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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Great question Polly! mine was developed over time. I basically knew what i wanted but i had no experience. My style is a very youngish look, rather nieve and innocent bordering on immature!! i like short skirts, fancy tops, lots of pink! makeup, appropriate to age etc. It all takes time to master but i think i'm getting there.......

Fiona-Ann xxx

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Ok, I am going to fess up to stealing a lot of my look from GGs - I caught myself red-handed, so to speak:

A girl came into our technical centre today, and my eyes must've been popping out of my head, because she noticed me staring and smiled!

She was wearing a super tight leather look pencil skirt that went just to her knees, a very shiny yellow-gold satin blouse with huge ruffles down the front, cute strappy black heels, and lovely cat-eye style glasses.

What a sensational look - uber-glam, yet oddly innocent and librarian-like, totally sissy cross dresser, yet very feminine and powerful.

I felt a bit sorry for her - I wasn't lovestruck for her, but for her outfit!

I have been busy ever since trying to track down said garments. The blouse is proving to be really difficult to find.

I will visit the opticians for new glasses before the month is out...

I've found a new look!

*excited*

Laura

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(@leonara)
Noble Member     Long Island,, New York, United States of America
Joined: 9 years ago

Polly,
Thank you for a great thought provoking topic.
My crossing personal style had two role models.
My mother and my wife Kathy...my father was an art director and my mother was his model, before children, in some of his photo sessions. She was a classy lady who I try to emulate to this day. Mom had the Donna Reed 50's look: dress, skirt & blouse...and a occasional pant suit..and of course I tried her girdle with garter stockings..At the age of 6 I was mesmerized as she applied her make up or her "face" As she refer to it..Although I didn't apply make up until 40 years later, My CD style is the classy lady... Which I borrowed from my wife. Business suit with pencil skirt.. sheath dress.. I started to buy my own clothes especially around Christmas, a dress or a skirt for Kathy and the same for Leonara...my choice of wardrobe includes skinny pants , blouse, and "girly flats" for hopefully that everyday look... Thank you ladies for listening....Leonara.

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I found my style by observing women and noting what I liked and did not like about their styles.

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(@ryanpaul)
Famed Member     Outer Eastern Suburbs Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Joined: 7 years ago

It evolved over the years to a female equivalent of the male me. Mstly smart casual "Coffee with the girls/shopping", but can also be classy after 5/Mother of The Bride all the  way through to full on formal evening wear.

Underneath ALWAYS classy lingerie...EG Simone Perele when its on clearance.

Happy dressing

Caty

 

 

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