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Dress mishaps, adventures, and hacks

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 Lea
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(@lea-jhene)
Noble Member     California, United States of America
Joined: 9 years ago

Wearing a dress is so feminine! There's nothing in the guy closet that comes close in look, feel, style, but also in how to wear one.

What dress mishaps, adventures or hacks have you found and had?

Last week, I got stuck in a dress when the zipper wouldn't budge. I've been wearing dresses for years and it still happens sometimes. Many poor zippers have fallen apart as I tugged at trying to get them to unzip. I've gotten good at repairing zippers without replacing them.

I sometimes zip up a dress and slip it on. Doing up a zipper on the back takes being a bit more flexibility than I have.

A long string or gift ribbon is helpful for pulling up or down zippers on the back.

A deep breath helps with zipping up a tight fit.

Patience and calmness with a stuck zipper can help find a way out. 

My favorite way to put on a dress is to simply slip it on. I look for dresses that are stretchy, preferably no zip.

If there's a back zip, I often put the dress on with the back zip at the front, then I zip it up, twist it around my waist/chest so the zip is on the back, and somehow slip my arms in.

Another trick is to zip up the dress halfway before putting it on, then putting it on and doing the final zip up.

What about you?

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Baroness
(@annaredhead)
Joined: 11 months ago

Famed Member     Cornwall, United Kingdom
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@lea-jhene I usually have to ask my wife to help with a rear zip.

We did once break the zip on a dress in a boutique and told the owner. I bought the dress and had the zip repaired.

Hugs,

Anna xx

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Lady
(@target)
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Reputable Member     MPLS, Minnesota, United States of America
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@annaredhead

My goodness having my wife zip me in a dress is definitely high on the fantasy list. 

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Baroness
(@annaredhead)
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@target She is very supportive, I am so lucky

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 Lea
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(@lea-jhene)
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@annaredhead That's great your wife will help you!

I hope mine would do the same, but I know I'm dreaming. It would actually feel strange if she did given our history of disagreeing about my crossdressing.

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(@alexina)
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@lea-jhene 

I have maybe three dresses that have zips. One of them I can pull on while it's zipped as it's got a little give in it. 

What I have noticed, though, is the zip pulls on all of them are tiny and solid so no chance of using the ribbon or string ploy. I can't be the only one with fumbly fingers!

Good topic, Lea 😊.

Allie x

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 Lea
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(@lea-jhene)
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@alexina I will never understand who came up with those tiny zips. I love that many cute dresses are zipless.

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Duchess
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@alexina small vice grips

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(@alexina)
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@augustvaliant 

Excellent idea, Autumn. Now, if we could get them in assorted colours, we could just leave them on 😊.

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Duchess
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@lea-jhene thanks for the post Lea.  I found your description of putting the back zip dress on backwards and spinning it around the most interesting.  I don’t think I’d ever get my arms out of it and becstick in it like a stuffed sausage.  I wouldn’t want to have to try to call someone either.  
 

I use the half zip method on the back zipper dresses.  It seems awkward, but when you live alone like me, you have to do what you have to do to get your girl dress on.

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 Lea
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@jennconn I use the half zip method too.

It's harder getting older, and starting to lose flexibility. It's hard dressing alone.

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Lady
(@harriette)
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Posted by: @lea-jhene

A long string or gift ribbon is helpful for pulling up or down zippers on the back.

The zipper needs a loop, ring or hole through which to thread a ribbon or use a hook. Some zipper pull tabs have very little to use.

 

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 Lea
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(@lea-jhene)
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@harriette Thanks for mentioning that!!

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Baroness
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@lea-jhene You can get a zipper puller on Amazon.

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Lady
(@harriette)
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@lea-jhene I learned the hard way that we need to keep our silicone forms in complete control.

One of my heavy hip chicken fillets fell out from under my snug, non-pocket underwear. The weight was just too much for them to stay in place by relying on just tightness alone. I didn't even feel it fall down inside my pantleg. Somebody had a good laugh when they saw it laying on the floor. Always use pocket panties with silicone hip pads.

The other hard lesson was to keep my shirt tightly tucked into my waistband while I was beginning to learn about certain bras and breast forms.

Firstly, not all front closure bras stay closed even if the band is tight. Whenever it comes undone, and it likely will, you have two heavy breast forms getting unleashed and they have nowhere to go but down.

Push-up bras cause the opposite problem. The internal padding will push the breast forms up out of small coverage cups. Lean over and... oops! At least one breast form has been unleashed with nowhere to go but down.

If your shirt or top is also low-cut, then down could mean falling directly onto somebody's shoes. Full coverage bras have better control of what is inside of them.

Unless you address these issues with practice, to find out what problems your underwear can cause, expect some surprises and maybe even some losses.

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Lady
(@randialex)
Estimable Member     Shaftesbury, Dorset, United Kingdom
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not a dress but a skirt

I have a lovely midi denim skirt which has  a 1 foot length slit up the front which is a very easy way to expose ones upper leg areas

The hack is keep ones knees together 

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Hostess
(@cdsue)
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Lea -

I love your ideas. I use many of them. When it is a dressing day at home with my wife she will do the sipper for me. When alone I will put the dress on backward, sip it halfway. twist it around then pull it high enough to reach the zip and finish pulling it up. I will also pull down on the dress to help line up the teeth in the zipper and pull it closer together. Like you most of my dresses are pull over with no zip - mush easier. It's the form fitting dresses that have zippers which are a pain.

XOXO
Suzanne

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(@Anonymous 100087)
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the male midsection is most likely longer than the female midsection. so dresses sometimes come up a little shorter than they should. i usually get a black skirt to wear under the dress to give it a little more length. 

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Baroness
(@dianas1960)
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Twice now I have been out trying on clothes and came out of the dressing room only to be stopped by someone telling me my dress was tucked into my pantyhose.  Quite embarrassing.

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Lady
(@nataliecd)
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Estimable Member     Minnesota, United States of America
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@dianas1960 While not a dress per se, I had this happen in a skirt. Except, the situation was slightly different. I was in San Francisco and we went back to the car to rest after walking from Castro to Haight-Ashbury and back. My body suit was sort of chafing me so I decided to readjust in the car. I did so and we went back to walking the rest of the way to the Castro and about 2 blocks in, I realized my skirt was tucked into my tights and I was on full display for all the cars passing by! Luckily, I noticed it before we got back among the crowds of people but that could have been really embarrassing!

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Baroness
(@dianas1960)
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@nataliecd Quite embarrassing isn't it.

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(@Anonymous 100087)
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I've lost a boob out of my dress a couple of times. once at the nail salon and once playing pool. i don't glue them on so when i bend over i have to make sure my bra is tight enough. 

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Lady
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@prettytoes I got tired of trying different bra sizes, and chasing my girls (no interest in glue) constantly. Finally caved, and bought a mastectomy bra, with pockets. Now I'm free to focus on other issues, because in attempting to navigate foreign (feminine) territory, there WILL be other issues 🤣

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Baroness
(@dianas1960)
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@prettytoes I also lost a form once in the Target parking lot.  Fortunately I was at my car door when it happened.  I determined the root cause was I was not wearing a wire bra.  I never go out without a wired bra anymore.

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 J J
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(@jjandme)
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Way back when I was first experimenting with going out in public and I jad yet to purchase breast forms I used various things to fill my bra, rice in nylon stockings, water balloons, etc. Until one day out for a walk in a ski town one of my boobs sprung a leak. Cold water seeping down your top in 30⁰F is not a pleasent experience. I bought forms right away.

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@jjandme little nipplely was it?

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 Leah
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(@leah63)
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I love dresses but in order to get them to fit my shoulders, it is way too big in the waist/hips. So i would need to get them altered.  I love my pencil skirts though! 

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Baroness
(@annaredhead)
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@leah63 I used an elasticated belt to draw the dress's waist in.

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 Lea
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@leah63 I really like bell shaped dresses, where the waist is cinched. It makes me look so much more feminine and hides a bit of belly fat.

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Lady
(@darcy97)
Reputable Member     Georgia, United States of America
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I was once trying on a dress in a shop and had gotten the zipper 3/4 the up and then realized I was stuck. I was doing this in boy mode so asking a SA for help was a bit embarrassing but she was kind.

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 Lea
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(@lea-jhene)
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@darcy97 That's courageous to ask for help.

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Lady
(@darcy97)
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@lea-jhene it was either that or I would have had to summon my inner Incredible Hulk and tear my way out and then have to pay for a ruined dress Smile

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(@mirandam)
Estimable Member     Bay Area, California, United States of America
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Ok my best mishap “wardrobe malfunction” was a silicone hip set/panty.  I had tested it indoors and it fit very well.  In confidence I went out walking about a downtown area.  Having a blast.

then, to my utter dismay, I realized that I had been walking so much (plus it was summer) that I was sweating much more than anticipated … and my “hips” slipped down by a wide margin.  I had to run and find an appropriate restroom to dry it out and rest.  

I must have looked like an umpa lumpa with mini legs and a long torso.  Ugh … 😩😂

 

 

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Baroness
(@ryanpaul)
Famed Member     Outer Eastern Suburbs Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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I've had a couple of stuck zips. To sort it out I took either one or both of my forms out, get it off my shoulders and let the dress drop to my feet.

Caty.

 

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 Lea
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(@lea-jhene)
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@ryanpaul I know what you mean. I have had to cleverly remove my bra first when trying to get out of a really tight dress. Sometimes a less padded bra is the only way a zipper will close.

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Duchess Annual
(@robertaf)
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Frankly I love a dress with a back zipper  I favor a dress with zipper over the stretchy ones. I just feel so sexy when zipping it up. I guess I’m a bit fortunate that at 72 I’m limber enough to be able to do it. For what it’s worth, Door way stretches are very good for adding flexibility. Pls ring both palms on the door frame and gently but firmly stepping one foot forward. 
amazon sells some very good zipper pulls for a little added boost. 

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 Lea
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@robertaf Those are great ideas for staying fit. Exercise is much more fun when there's a goal... like improving as a crossdresser in some way.

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