A time to say hello
Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2019 8:27 pm
I've been lurking in and out of here on occasion and finally decided it was time to become part of this forum of like mind folk and say hello.
I've had this thing for many years about wanting to wear girls or women's clothes. Thinking back to my high school when skirts were the norm and my college days skirts weren't the norm but many girls did wear them. The ones that I like, if my memory serves me right, were those plaid skirts with the big pin in them or pleated skirts.
I had a wife who was, so to speak, straight laced, some of which I think had to do with her being born and raised on the farm. Yes a farm girl which wasn't all that bad. Anything out of the norm was taboo. We moved away and at least 2 or 3 times a year she would go with the kids to visit her mother in Iowa, we were in Wisconsin at the time, usually for a weekend but at least once for a week. She had a wrap around skirt which tied in the front. On those weekly trips of hers I would find this skirt, if she didn't take it, and wear it around the house on my day or days off.
At one time I tried cross dressing but this just wasn't me. I was too male acting and found trying to be feminine impossible, some can pull it off I couldn't. The thought of wearing skirts was still strong, something I wanted to do whether i wanted to wear in the public was another thing. I lost my wife about 5 years ago and decided this was the time to let myself be me. I got several skirts which I would wear around the house a few times a week changing in to shorts or jeans before going out on errands shopping etc. Then I found this forum and as I stated above, started lurking and reading about what others were doing. After reading I decided if others could so could I. I've started out with the proverbial baby steps, just quickly going here and going there. Then I needed to back trips to my mothers who ended in a nursing home. At my age of 70 plus at 10.5 to 11 hr drive gets to be a long day. So I break this up by leaving in the afternoon, driving 5.5 hrs and staying over night. The first part of this drive, on several occasions, I have done skirted. Stopping for gas, something to eat and restroom break. The next day I go in shorts because I stop at the nursing home to see my mother and would rather not have her see me in a skirt.
I have not fully gone out in the city where I live, probably self-conscious more than anything, not wanting to run into some one I might know. I guess all I need is the encouragement, or the willingness on my part, to let this happen. As for wearing a skirt I find a certain amount of freedom in doing so, not restrained if that is the right way of saying it when wearing pants. Something I recall reading some years back that the male anatomy was more conducive for wearing skirts than pants and it was just the opposite for women.
I've had this thing for many years about wanting to wear girls or women's clothes. Thinking back to my high school when skirts were the norm and my college days skirts weren't the norm but many girls did wear them. The ones that I like, if my memory serves me right, were those plaid skirts with the big pin in them or pleated skirts.
I had a wife who was, so to speak, straight laced, some of which I think had to do with her being born and raised on the farm. Yes a farm girl which wasn't all that bad. Anything out of the norm was taboo. We moved away and at least 2 or 3 times a year she would go with the kids to visit her mother in Iowa, we were in Wisconsin at the time, usually for a weekend but at least once for a week. She had a wrap around skirt which tied in the front. On those weekly trips of hers I would find this skirt, if she didn't take it, and wear it around the house on my day or days off.
At one time I tried cross dressing but this just wasn't me. I was too male acting and found trying to be feminine impossible, some can pull it off I couldn't. The thought of wearing skirts was still strong, something I wanted to do whether i wanted to wear in the public was another thing. I lost my wife about 5 years ago and decided this was the time to let myself be me. I got several skirts which I would wear around the house a few times a week changing in to shorts or jeans before going out on errands shopping etc. Then I found this forum and as I stated above, started lurking and reading about what others were doing. After reading I decided if others could so could I. I've started out with the proverbial baby steps, just quickly going here and going there. Then I needed to back trips to my mothers who ended in a nursing home. At my age of 70 plus at 10.5 to 11 hr drive gets to be a long day. So I break this up by leaving in the afternoon, driving 5.5 hrs and staying over night. The first part of this drive, on several occasions, I have done skirted. Stopping for gas, something to eat and restroom break. The next day I go in shorts because I stop at the nursing home to see my mother and would rather not have her see me in a skirt.
I have not fully gone out in the city where I live, probably self-conscious more than anything, not wanting to run into some one I might know. I guess all I need is the encouragement, or the willingness on my part, to let this happen. As for wearing a skirt I find a certain amount of freedom in doing so, not restrained if that is the right way of saying it when wearing pants. Something I recall reading some years back that the male anatomy was more conducive for wearing skirts than pants and it was just the opposite for women.
