The definition of Crossdressing...

[Kilted Musician]

Crossdressing is what the Altar Guild does in a church right around Christmas, Easter, and other religious holidays...

I realized this yesterday at work. I spend a lot of time in churches due to my profession [pipe organ technician]

--Rick

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[STEVIE]

Rick,
How about "Well Dressing"?
Steve.

[Kilted Musician]

Rick,
How about "Well Dressing"?
Steve.

Nothing like being Well Dressed, eh? In a skirt or kilt...

Take care Steve!

--Rick

[JohnH]

Crossdressing is what the Altar Guild does in a church right around Christmas, Easter, and other religious holidays...
--Rick

That's baaaad!

[Ralph]

Hah! It took me a minute to get that

[Kilted Musician]

Crossdressing is what the Altar Guild does in a church right around Christmas, Easter, and other religious holidays...
--Rick

That's baaaad!

Yeah... I like to think a little differently sometimes... specially when I'm at work and get a little bored!

--Rick

[Kilted Musician]

Hah! It took me a minute to get that

I was thinking about a "short-and-sweet" definition of crossdressing and that was the first thing I thought about. Being bored at work has it's advantages... sometimes!

--Rick

[JeffB1959]

Pfft! Labels aren't worth my time. When I wear a skirt, I'm just wearing clothes, nothing more, nothing less.

[r.m.anderson]

Pfft! Labels aren't worth my time. When I wear a skirt, I'm just wearing clothes, nothing more, nothing less.

While we are on the subject matter of vague dual meaning - "Cross Dressing" - - -

I would watch that "nothing less" position it could mean trouble more so than 'nothing more' ! LOL !

Remember what happened with the Emperor's New Clothing ?

[skirtilator]

Easy, if you are dressed like a crussader or a monk, as long as you have some stylish cross on your garment, that's crossdressing. The cross is the dressing of the garment. A nazi general engaged in crossdressing too, since the swastika resembles some kinda cross. Skirts made of Bubblegum pink latex with a cross as dressing would also meet the definition. Mid-calf lengh and you can meet the pope in it. He could reject you for an abomination, if he'd like to.

[kidme]

Just came across this article, on androgyny fashion.
http://thoughtcatalog.com/rachel-hodin/ ... s-clothes/

[Sinned]

Thank you kdm,

For on that site down near the bottom was a link to an article entitled "8 signs you're in a controlling relationship". It describes what is going on in the relationship with MOH perfectly. Now all I need to do is get that across to her if we are to save what we have. The trouble is that dominance, the handing over of control a little at a time and the erosion of self can happen gradually over time without one realising it. The fact that I have been unemployed for nearly two years has not helped my sense of confidence, identity or worth.

There may be light at the end of the tunnel yet.

[MrNaturalAZ]

Just came across this article, on androgyny fashion.
http://thoughtcatalog.com/rachel-hodin/ ... s-clothes/

Interesting yet quick read. Thanks. Of course no mention was made (rarely is, anywhere) as to why if a man wears "traditionally female" clothes, the act gets called "cross-dressing" - a moniker with decidedly negative connotation, while women can wear whatever they want, from either gender's catalog, with no one saying a word or even batting an eye at it? Quite the double standard, I'd think.

[pleated]

Just came across this article, on androgyny fashion.
http://thoughtcatalog.com/rachel-hodin/ ... s-clothes/

Pity she still refers to them as "women’s clothes".
If I buy or make a skirt or dress it is not a woman's - it is mine, and I am a man (therefore the skirt or dress is a man's)

[Tor]

Pity she still refers to them as "women’s clothes".
If I buy or make a skirt or dress it is not a woman's - it is mine, and I am a man (therefore the skirt or dress is a man's)

What other word or phrase would be as recognizably nominative of the set of garments being referred to here? As much as we or anyone else might abhor the term, which certainly no longer applies in the specific case, I'm not sure I see a better and (near-)equally usable term for the general case, as seems to be the use case in the article.

kidme: Thanks for posting this article. A few more like this can't hurt us, and I'm sure they will come with time.