confusion and frustration in the mens clothing department

[Merinda]

Hi girls ,

I decided to take one of my skirts back to Myer Melbourne today since I couldn't get it to look right , rather than exchange it for another I decided to use the credit along with another gift voucher and get some well needed mens clothing.

The Myer mens dept has a whole floor of fasion and also takes up 1/2 of the floor above , I spent about 1 hour looking for a nice mens top and left with nothing.

Mens colours are s###
Mens sizes are too big
Mens styles do nothing for me

I can walk into a shop and find an item of girls / womens apparel and love it , then puchase it .

I walk into the mens dept and I cannot judge anything , I dont know what looks good or bad, then I find something that looks reasonably good and it suddenly turns bad

Then I walk out frustrated and confused , why is it so hard for me??

[SophieLawson]

Hmmm, I can kinda relate. If I'm buying my boy clothes I'm not really fussed what I get, I can see what looks nice and stuff but it doesn't excite me like girls clothes. Boy clothes are just so boring and all the same, girls are so lucky to have such a large amount of different types of clothes and shoes! That's why I love girls clothes.

In fact, I haven't brought any boy clothes for months, and I wear the same baggy light blue combat/jean type trouser most of the time There pretty cool but I'd rather have a lil skirt on or something

I think if I go girl clothes shopping I could spend hrs and hrs, but for boy clothes its like I go in, pick up whatever and get out lol

Sophie xx

[Lorna]

I have to agree, Merida.

Not only are the colors very drab, conservative and boring, 9 times out of 10, the clothes are very bulky and itch like crazy. I don't even like wearing mens jeans unless I run them thru the washer 3 or 4 times.

[Ginny]

Oh, Lorna dear, you obviously have such smooth delicate skin !! God bless you !!

Mind you, it's an excellent excuse for avoiding the men's department.

I must admit that even though I'm limited to underdressing, I spend so much time in the ladies' departments that I actually feel more at home there. I especially love to check out the lingerie. I am disappointed that nowadays nobody even turns their head. It would be trite to say that the fun has gone out of it, but maybe there are so many CDers these days that it is unremarkable.

[Celia]

Hmm . . . I think I know what the problem was, Merinda: you were looking for something nice. You'll do better if you go for unobtrusive. And if you're willing to go with ugly, you'll have a wealth of choices.

Yours,
Celia

[Mellissa]

hmm sounds very familliar
same here to be honest it all looks the same and no color (NO PINK!!!)
yes no pink and i happen to love pink
shoes are the same when i go buy shoes for the guy me i always end up with the same looking boring shoes and no color either always black or brown (i dont like brown)
and then i see the lady's shoes all colors of the rainbow all differant styles and!! Heels and pink haha nah so the choice is easy next time i go shopping

my favorite mens piece of clothing has to be my coat from the matrix the one Neo wears in reloaded and revolutions ( i kinda look like a priest in it haha )
thats the one thing i realy like

[Jadeanne]

Hi all,

To me, boy clothes are just there. The only things I bought from the mens dept this year that I cared about were 2 belts that I picked up during my vacation in Maine - a tan leather one with animals, mountains, etc. on it (I now wear it most of the time in male mode) and a blue web belt with eagles. The other previous mens clothing that I really cared for was my good suit (a designer name $$$ with very subtle blue stripes) several years ago.

I find femme clothing infinitely more interesting.

Jadeanne

[CJ]

Hi all,

Merinda,

I don't know the fashion scene down in Oz, but, up here, men's fashions are a little more flavourful. Allegedly, Montreal is one of the fashion capitals of North America, so that might account for the greater variety, who knows?

I have several friends (and even colleagues) who ask me why I dress in such drab clothing (I usually wear comfortable jeans and dark cotton shirts... even when dressing "androgynously," I tend to go for more sober colours, I guess in order to avoid attracting too much attention.). Sometimes, though, I'll let loose--usually at parties or on special occasions--and wear dressy slacks in pale material (although my garter tabs tend to show more when I do this ) and silk shirts in either pink or pale cinnamon colours, all found in the men's department.

One of my colleagues is wondering why I don't try relaxing my, she says, "rigidly masculine" look by wearing softer clothing in brighter, somewhat more feminine colours and styles. I have no good answer to this, other than to tell her that I have a natural inclination to dress darkly in drab so as to give my "other self" more contrast and appeal in "her" appearance. "That's the problem with you guys," she says, referring to crossdressers, "you're too 'two-track minded,' too polarized." She may have a point, that point being that dressing gender-appropriately is as much a matter of being on a "style spectrum" as is gender behaviour itself; why always be on either one end or the other? "Move around in there," she says. I try, I try.

Anyway, Merinda, I hope you'll find something of interest, eventually, in whatever men's department you try to shop in. After all, we unfortunately do need some drab clothes, eh? Heck! Women, too, wear drab clothes on occasion! Good luck in your shopping.

Love,
CJ

[Merinda]

Mellissa,

Strangely enough there were pink zip front jackets and shirts for sale , but the smallest ones would still come down to my kneecaps.
Mens clothing makers cater for 6'7 broad shouldered models and not small people , the boys dept is sometimes an option.

CJ,

Like yourself I cant picture myself in pink in male-mode , unless the item is sports wear.
I also tend to wear dated fasions in male-mode , navy blue and black is OK but I dont like browns or greys .

The bottom line is that I dont have any interest in mens clothing ,
maybe I should join a nudist club .

[Mellissa]

wahaha Merinda a nudist club you have to move down here then
We have a nudist beach just 2 miles from my place
your welcome to stay at my place during summer
Just move up from down under till you spot the windmills and tullips hahaha


oh before i forget just want to say you have sweet face you have this innocent girl thing in your look and is that your own hair??

Mellissa

[Merinda]

oh before i forget just want to say you have sweet face you have this innocent girl thing in your look and is that your own hair??

Mellissa

Gee ! thanks Mellissa ,

Unfortunatly its not my own hair , I used to have this style when my hair was long although my natural colour is lighter

[Mellissa]

Well keep it i think it fits you and looks nice (the hair)
and nothing to thank me for just beeing honest
I dont have a wig still stuck with the crew cut kind feel silly in my skirt and stockings but with the hair style of a US marine haha
Hope to get one do if my wife dont mind

Mellissa <<< like this smiley couse i'm a natural redhead

[Sally]

Hi Merinda,

If you're ever down Black Rock way it may be of interest to you to pop into Drop Fashions and have a look around. They are situated in Bluff Road near Beach Road. It's a womens fashion store of quite some size and caters for everything from casual through to formal.

They are very friendly and helpful there. I went there once with some friends from the Seahorse Society when I was down in Melbourne looking for a formal ball gown. That particular evening the store was closed to the public and was just open to CD's, TS.s etc, to shop in comfort. The staff (all women and girls) even put on complimentary champagne and wine for everyone as well. lol... it was quite an evening, there must have been around 40 shopping, most of us were 'dressed' but there was quite a number of people in male garb shopping as well, but as you can envisage, they are very, very TG friendly.

Kind Regards.

Sally.

[Elizabeth]

Hi girls,

I hate boy clothes. My mother bought my clothes until I was about 15, then my sister started buying it. I had a short period when I was 20-22 where I bought my own clothes. I bought bright colors and had "suits" of pants and t-shirts that went together.

At 22 I met my wife who started buying all my clothes because she hated my taste and thought I looked ridiculous. I have always pretty much been a rock t-shirt and jeans kind of guy. Didn't buy a suit until just a few years ago, and only wore it once to a company christmas dinner because I was management. I had to look up on the internet to make sure I was tying my tie correctly.

To me it is all boring and unattractive clothing. I much perfer womens clothing. And for the immediate future I don't really see a need to buy any male clothing.

Love always,
Elizabeth

[Merinda]

Thanks for the tip-off Sally,

There is meant to be a CD /TV /TG shop in Glenferrie road Malvern but I couldn't find it back in August.
There is another in Smith street Fitzroy that I haven't browsed yet.

Its interesting how we all find mens clothing boring , I get round in track pants , windcheater and runners in male-mode .
A lot of my other male-mode clothing is over 10 years old.