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- March 30, 2021 at 7:41 am #471181Anonymous
Alright Ladies let’s stretch those gray cells for a moment and consider the question ” which female figure is your ideal, who would you most like to be ?” – could be from any historical era or any part of society. To get the ball rolling my ideal would be Lucretzia Borgia the daughter of Pope Alexander VI, she used her beauty and brains to carve out a role for herself in renaissance Italy, no man was her master, quite some feat in the 15th century, the dresses were lovely too of course!
Let’s hear those choices – you’ve got thousands of years to pick from!
Diana
- March 30, 2021 at 7:50 am #471185
I certainly agree with the dresses in that era Diana but didnt know about Lucretzia. I would love to be one of the ladies in the court of King Louie XVI in a long gown and an elegant big hairdo while trying to breathe in a tight corset.It would be more exciting doing it as a tg too
- March 30, 2021 at 8:38 am #471218Anonymous
She was an incredible woman Deb, I recommend the book ‘Lucrezia Borgia’ by Sarah Bradford – a great read .
- March 30, 2021 at 7:58 am #471195
Well, I’m not a fan of her dress sense, but Ann Lister is near the top of my list – what a powerful lady!
Again, no man was ever her master – or, indeed, close companion. The number of women partners she had is astonishing…
But, more importantly, the way she managed her estates, the power she wielded, and the keenness of her mind for learning and appreciating life, questioning “normal” and fully embracing and expressing herself as a unique individual, as documented in her diaries, is a real role model to all of us.
Love Laura
- March 30, 2021 at 8:35 am #471216Anonymous
Oh yes Laura, the real Gentleman Jack what a fascinating woman – great choice.
- March 30, 2021 at 8:06 am #471198Anonymous
Easy and only choice for me…J-Lo❤️ What a killer body, best butt ever❤️ Can you tell she is my celebrity crush?
Haley😘
- March 30, 2021 at 9:35 am #471238Anonymous
No Haley Ann, I wouldn’t have guessed that at all – lol
- March 30, 2021 at 8:22 am #471203Anonymous
Hi Diana..
My mum….she died when I was very young…
I always have and always will miss her….
Grace ❤️❤️
- March 30, 2021 at 8:41 am #471219Anonymous
The best choice of all Grace.
- March 30, 2021 at 8:32 am #471212
Hi Diana, well your question really did fire up the old gray brain cells. My goodness the choices are almost too many.
So here is a name I don’t think many of you have heard. Eileen Kramer is an Australian dancer, artist, performer and choreographer. And she is 106 years old and still very active (well I think she is still alive). What a life she’s led.
It would be so wonderful to live a physically, mentally and emotionally healthy, active life well into the 100s. And dancing would be a wonderful way to spend my days (as well as walking my dog!!!!). Plus getting to wear those lovely dance outfits.
Stay safe, stay healthy, All the Best, Hugs, Krista.
- March 30, 2021 at 8:48 am #471222
Hmmm, such a difficult choice to make.From the recent pass either Grace Kelly or Sophia Loren. More recent Julia Roberts or Scarlett Johansen.
- March 30, 2021 at 9:26 am #471233Anonymous
You got me with the fabulous Scarlett Jennifer, but Grace Kelley yes – what a beautiful lady.
- March 30, 2021 at 9:00 am #471227Anonymous
Any anonymous, loving, nurturing, and selfless housewife/stay home mom from history who made a house into a home and raised children in a way that left a lasting legacy on the world through the generational effect of creating loving, close, tight knit family trees.
- March 30, 2021 at 9:29 am #471235Anonymous
What beautiful thoughts Steph – thank you for that ❤ 💕
- March 30, 2021 at 9:17 am #471231
Valerie Bertinelli. Period.
💋
Trisha
- March 30, 2021 at 9:31 am #471236Anonymous
I’m not going to argue that one with you Trisha, I remember being madly in lust with her as a younger girl.
- March 30, 2021 at 9:37 am #471239
Reading all of your answers had helped in my selection. The peoples princess Dianna Spencer. She was gorgeous, a huge humanitarian and very well loved.
- March 30, 2021 at 10:24 am #471259Anonymous
I don’t have a “role model” or somebody I wish I was”. I’m mostly happy just being me. 🙂
Gabriela
- March 30, 2021 at 10:35 am #471282
Great question Diana! There are so many good choices. However, I would have to go with Audrey Hepburn. Beauty, grace, style, talent and humanitarianism all rolled into one!
- March 30, 2021 at 10:50 am #471316
I Just Adore Doris Day, always so Pretty, Cute and Feminine all wrapped in one Beautiful package.
I just adored the cute outfits she wore in the early to mid 60’s, lovely skirt suits that were just so Pretty as well as gorgeous evening gowns. I can only imagine the Pretty Pastel Lingerie she was wearing and wished that were me.
- March 30, 2021 at 11:22 am #471328Anonymous
I remember watching the Doris Day Show and thinking how lovely she was.
- March 30, 2021 at 11:02 am #471321
I always like Linda Gray who played in the TV show Dallas. She is a very classy lady.
I also like Renee Russo especially in the movie “The Thomas Crown Affair” Again, very classy.
- March 30, 2021 at 11:18 am #471327
Fun question! I’m going with someone more current. I’m going to say Emma Watson; beautiful, very stylish, fantastic figure, an activist for women. And I’d be almost 30 years younger! 😂
- March 30, 2021 at 11:24 am #471329Anonymous
Emma’s a treasure alright, plus Harry and Ron would have died several times without her.
- March 30, 2021 at 11:41 am #471333Anonymous
There have been so many influential women over the centuries from Bodacious to Elizabeth the First to Joan of Arc, where does one begin, Doris Day is one of my favourites she had a super smile that could melt an iceberg, there are so many i can’t list them all x
Hugs Rozalyne x
- March 30, 2021 at 4:36 pm #471460Anonymous
I wonder what Boudicca would have made of Doris Day…..
- March 30, 2021 at 12:16 pm #471354
Wait…What…oops,wrong thread…leaving..
- March 30, 2021 at 12:42 pm #471360Anonymous
Hi Diana I would like the original diva Maria Callas supremely talented and a proper madam.
- March 30, 2021 at 3:22 pm #471430
Julie Andrews, of course everyone knows her for “Sound of Music ” and “Mary Poppins”. Her singing is beautiful and she is a good actress. But have you seen any of her lesser movies? She has a slightly naughty side, definitely not Disney! “Victor/Victoria”, a girl that dresses as a man dressing as a woman, and a small role in “10” that gets naughty at the end.
She is girl next door lovely, sweet, charming and, as mentioned above, a little naughty.
🎥🎬
Beth
- March 30, 2021 at 3:40 pm #471442
That’s easy for me and a toss up between these 3.
1/.https://www.crossdresserheaven.com/photo/lady-catherine-of-alphington/
Always been a period fashion nut and nearly fainted when I first put on this gown. Channeling Marie Antoinette.
2/.https://www.crossdresserheaven.com/photo/scarlett-ocaty/
Scarlelt O Caty was always another fantasy I got to fulfil
3/. https://www.crossdresserheaven.com/photo/shopping-trip-mark-2/
Having spent all my career in management roles, the “clever secretary” business look has always been a favorite..
Caty
- March 30, 2021 at 4:07 pm #471448
I have someone Diana.
Her name is Brooke Wagner. She is the co-anchor on the evening news on the CBS affiliate here in Tucson.
If I could look like her,,,,,
Diane
- March 30, 2021 at 4:47 pm #471466
Vivien Leigh cut a fine figure n the ante bellum dresses in Gone with the Wind. When that movie is on… I always try to watch at least the first hour or so to see those gorgeous dresses and imagine that I, Laura Jane, could cut a figure like that… oh fiddle dee dee
“Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm…”
- March 30, 2021 at 5:43 pm #471479
Her Grace, Miss Grace, is my ideal
Hugs, Regi👩💕 - March 30, 2021 at 5:51 pm #471482
Diana,
Great question! My pick would be Norah O’Donnell. Love her! I watch CBS news just to see her outfit and heels. And make up! If only I could get my eye shadow to look half as good!
- March 30, 2021 at 7:13 pm #471536
I love this! Winnie is very shallow and superficial. Really just wants to wear pretty clothes and have fun with very little responsibility, so that rules out Eleanor Roosevelt.
I’ve always wanted to be Mary Tyler Moore as Laura Petrie or Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, but those are fictional characters and we are sticking to real people.
Grace Kelly got to wear fantastic clothes, make movies with Alfred Hitchcock and became a real life princess, so that is hard to beat!
Diana Rigg was a Bond Girl and was Mrs. Peele in the Avengers in the swinging ‘60’s. (Emma Peele = man appeal!) It would be great to be her.
I’m going to land on Bettie Page in the 1950’s. She got to model all of those fantastic lingerie and bondage outfits- many of which she designed herself! She was also a favorite of a young Hugh Hefner which I think influenced the look of the girls in his pictorials- very inspirational for generations of young men. A fantasy girl in my book!
Ask me tomorrow and I’ll probably go with Grace Kelly- it is so hard to choose just one!
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- March 30, 2021 at 9:32 pm #471566Anonymous
A very considered response Winnie, i have a feeling that you’re not as shallow as you suggest…..
- March 30, 2021 at 8:04 pm #471544
Darling Diana…
How, in God’s name, are we to choose from amongst the millions of great women! An impossible choice! So, I shall use Occam’s Razor!
A list then…
#1 My mother! She was unfailingly kind, loving, chic, but also a practical minded woman who could do anything a man could.
#2 My lovely Grandmother! A woman who, in her life, accomplished many feats of adventure and brought up a wonderful family.#3 Ruth Bader Ginsberg an astonishing woman who could defeat the entire male dominated Supreme Court and every politician who tried to tear her down!
#4 Michelle Obama… all class!
#5 Catherine Deneuve and a whole raft of beautiful, elegant French women who have captivated generations of young (an old) menAnd all the rest of the actresses, scientists, writers, intellectuals ad Infinitum
Puzzled Polly 🌹🌸🌷🌺😳
- March 30, 2021 at 9:28 pm #471565Anonymous
There ya go Polly, wasn’t that hard after all. Got your gray cells humming didn’t it?
- March 30, 2021 at 8:23 pm #471553
Ok, not going on outside appearances here. But I’d have to say Eleanor Roosevelt. There is a lot going on there.
New Deal Clara
- March 30, 2021 at 9:25 pm #471563Anonymous
Good thinking Clara – never judge a book by its cover.
- March 31, 2021 at 12:50 am #471599
I’ve actually thought for a while that I actively ‘look up’ to both Amanda Holden and Holly Willoughby are absolutely fantastic.
Irrespective of whether you like them as people or not (I like both of them though!) they pull off every sort of looking good in my eyes and provide me with something to aspire to.
The full list is, of course, pretty long as there are many icons to draw inspiration from.
Love Rachel
- March 31, 2021 at 3:02 am #471638
I wake early most days and turn on the news, I cry for the Covid victims bereaved families, I cry for the survivors and I cry for the exhausted Doctors and nurses.
Then, Carol the BBC weather girl appears and every thing seems OK.
- March 31, 2021 at 3:10 am #471640
That’s easy. Daisy Duke. When I first saw her, knew I had to look like her and be her. I bought some short shorts, platfrom wedge heels and a wig. I would put n my pantyhose, short shorts and bra. Then put on a shirt and long pants. I would go out to my car and drive a few blocks from the house to a desolate location. I would get my platform heels and wig out of the trunk. I had some old pantyhose AI would stuff in my bra to give me breasts, Then I would slide off my long pants, put on my platform wedges and out on my wig. I was dressed like Daisy. I felt so good.
I would drive around some, then eventually got the nerve to get out of the car and walk around. It was very scary but extremely exciting. Then I got this fantasy to buy pantyhose dressed in my Daisy attire. That took considerably more nerve. I would walk to to a store entrance many times but fear kick in and I walked away.
Finally after so many failed attempts I did it. I walked up to the store. The doors opened. I hesitated briefly but I walked inside. WOW! I was doing it. I walked over to the pantyhose. I picked out several pairs in my size, walked up to the register and go in line. I was very nervous and very excited. I was listening for remarks or comments. I heard nothing. When my turn came, I paid for my pantyhose and left the store. What an incredible thrill and rush. I was dressed as my fantasy girl and buying pantyhose.
Needless to say, I repeated that experience many times.
- March 31, 2021 at 3:15 am #471641Anonymous
Shopping dressed as Daisy Duke – that must have been quite a rush Patty.
- March 31, 2021 at 3:47 am #471646
I was 17 and having all these crazy dreams and fantasies. Daisy was one of my fantasies.To be Daisy and do things while Daisy had my mind wandering. Of course Daisy would need pantyhose. Building up the nerve to do that took a lot of time. It was incredibly scary but amazingly exciting.
- March 31, 2021 at 6:14 am #471697
Scarlet398 , Jessie Smith , Christy Ian
- March 31, 2021 at 8:21 am #471733
I have a couple friends I would totally swap with for a weekend, beautiful ladies with great personalities that I see as goals and who I want to be like.
For someone famous, Jennifer Aniston or Scarlett Johansson. I don’t know what they are like in person but they are exquisitely beautiful any time I see them.- This reply was modified 2 years ago by Vecca Senn.
- March 30, 2021 at 8:29 am #471208Anonymous
You know Steph that a girls got to do what a girls got to do, it wasn’t an era of sweetness and light and the incest part was only a nasty rumour put about by her detractors – men who couldn’t handle her!
🗡Diana – renaissance girl🗡
- March 30, 2021 at 4:03 pm #471446Anonymous
Good choice Laura, Cleopatra was a very clever woman – too bad Marc Antony let her down in the end though – typical man!😠
- March 30, 2021 at 11:34 pm #471585
I love the look and style of Shaina Twain, Jennifer Aniston is so beautiful. I admire both of them. I want to fit into Shaina’s pants the high waisted blue jeans are making a comeback. If I only had hips. I also like Steven Tyler from Aerosmith. No fashion since at all and he looks like an 80 year old woman but he is good with it. I love that confidence.
❤️
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