What percent do you dress fully each month?

Anne Bonny · Post by **Anne Bonny** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 8:43 am

I am logging hours because GG's have a huge head start on all of us. Because I believe it will help me to adapt and feel completely relaxed, natural and at ease in the feminine clothing that I love to wear. Because I feel I will be able to perfect my ability to apply make-up, and develop my style as a woman. Because I believe I will be more in touch with my femininity. It takes time. I calculated the there are a total of 720 hours in the month of September, I am completely dressed 308 hours Monday through friday (6 hours each morning, 8 hours asleep in my night gown), and an additional 72 hours in my night gown on weekends. 308+72=380 hours/720=52.77% of the time I am fully dressed in women's clothing. I have also removed the few remaining male briefs I own and placed them in the back of a storage drawer in the back of my closet and placed panties and bras in my chest of drawers instead because I wear panties 24/7, I also wear a bra when I feel I can do so safely at home when no relatives (only a few days every other month), friends or children's friends are present.

OK, you can all write me off as an obsessed mental case! I am perfectly free to dress however I choose - I am not forcing myself and in truth the percent is probably a little less than 50% of the time because sometimes I have no desire to be dressed fully feminine. But I am enjoying getting intouch with myself as a woman realizing that I am not of course but can experience a small sliver of a woman's world.

Anne Bonny · Post by **Anne Bonny** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 9:19 am

OK - I'M NUTS!!!!!

JoAnnDallas · Post by **JoAnnDallas** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:24 am

I dress almost every weekend from Friday night till Monday Morning. Monday - Friday, I do underdress and many times dress when I get home from work. So guess all total, I dress 80% of the time. I would love to go 100% when I retire. I still have a few more years to convince the wife. LOL.

Wendae · Post by **Wendae** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 12:56 pm

Percent? That's math! Gee when ever I can, like now!

Ralitsa · Post by **Ralitsa** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 1:40 pm

100% I always were women clothes of some sort, to work it is slacks and a blouse. Then I pick some blouse that is not blatantly feminine, but of course if you pay attention to the way it is cut you can tell. I think the only male clothes that I have here are 2 shirts that are company/project promotional propaganda types. I don't remember the last time I wore them. I might wear one of them this weekend for a few hours because we have a teambuilding event for which we are encouraged to wear the propaganda. So in reality it is not a full 100%, probably 5 nines.

Paula G · Post by **Paula G** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 4:32 pm

I'm now too blond to work out a percentage, but I aim for at least one full day (say 10 am to 7 pm) a morning and a long afternoon/evening on the road and maybe one evening, or the odd morning each month, so maybe a maximum of three total days. Each time I do I wish it were longer, I hate getting into drab after dressing even more than I love getting dressed to start with

Davita · Post by **Davita** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 9:05 pm

Define fully dressed. If you don't count make up. I am fully fem every night since I sleep in a nightgown. I am fully fem when I go out and about 3 or 4 days ever 2 or 3 months. A day out is anywhere from 5 to 12 hours.

Too many variations to do the math.

Carolynn · Post by **Carolynn** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:35 pm

Ummm, well what do you mean dressed? I wear my clothes every day, all day, but some of you who want to be gussied up to the nines to be dressed would be disapointed in my attire. Dresses and skirts are a rarity, mostly pants of some flavor and a pretty top, with comfortable shoes. I like casual, with the other stuff for when the situation demands.

Pat · Post by **Pat** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:04 pm

This is a hard question to answer, the reason being I live as a woman full time and since my "Orch" and "HRT" when I visited my Endo he asked me have I changed my name yet? (Not Yet)

So answer is - I am a woman 24/7

Huggs Patricia

Anthony Simon · Post by **Anthony Simon** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 8:53 am

For me dressing up is a cyclical thing. That is some weeks I can do it more or less every day, some maybe once or twice a week. The centre of it is looking in the mirror and seeing a woman looking back. For me "fully dressed" involves makeup, which is a time-consuming business. And sometimes I don't feel like doing that because it kind of competes with the other things I might do. I do like to wear just the underclothes and a wig quite often, but that doesn't really count, in my mind, as being "fully dressed" because I'm looking in the mirror and seeing something that hovers between man and woman.

On being "gussied up", my tendency has been to throw as much femininity into the mix as I can in order to achieve my desired result of looking like a woman. But, over time, I've found my face and demeanour have got more feminine as I've dressed up and so I've been able to let go of some of that. I think I kind of hypnotize myself into "being a woman" and there's a zone I go into that is quite easily disturbed by other things, so that some weeks even if I'm "fully dressed" the male bit of me keeps surfacing.

I dress up in the evening when my mind needs a rest from everything else and the thing is "special" to me. In that I'm rather different from a lot of people who do it as an ongoing activity and have an element of routine to it. So I guess my hours dressed up a week would be much less than many people (some weeks 25, some weeks 7. I do sometimes stay dressed up overnight and into the next morning, but not much recently). I do find that doing stuff tends to destroy the vibe associated with it - like I revert to a man in a dress - unless it's really archetypally womanly things.

Anne Bonny · Post by **Anne Bonny** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:58 pm

Well, as I stated above - I must be crazy! Fully dressed is just dressed as any woman would dress, sometimes they wear make up, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they wear shorts, flipflops and a tank top or dressed to the nines. Some even throw something masculine into the mix, but they usually wear panties, and a bra underneath - that's a pretty wide range. I realized after posting this that I was being extreme, no one sets a timer and changes into male clothing when it dings! We dress when we want to as often as we want to and some of us have limits we must contend with. I suppose we should all just enjoy ourselves and be happy.

Carolynn · Post by **Carolynn** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 5:42 pm

By Georgette, I think she's got it!!!

Carolynn

Post by **KimberlyS** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:24 pm

Full femme attire dressed with wig and makeup I have dresses on average about once a month for the yes. A more more start of the year and and bit less now.

But that said most days I am wearing one or mo femme items as part of my daily mix presenting a male image to the work. Around the house at times i am more feminine depending on what is going on and who is here.

Kimberlys-cd
joe in a skirt

Post by **DonnaT** » Fri Sep 30, 2011 5:46 am

I haven't fully (incl. wig and makeup) dressed in quite some time. Excl. wig, forms and makeup, at least 50%, but also every night.

Carol Ann · Post by **Carol Ann** » Fri Sep 30, 2011 6:59 am

Most everybody knows Carol Ann who can and does dress everyday, take today and the passed two days I have been painting the liveingroom. No silly not in a dress but and old pair of slacks, top, and yes my wig and just a little lipstick.

I find it very hard to doll up everyday as a close friend told me "we girls like to dress casual and comfortable".