It is prom season, a time when many a young femulator’s heart is all a flutter thinking about the pretty prom gowns he won’t be able to wear to his high school’s spring formal.
In high school, I did not date much. I interacted easily with girls on a day-to-day basis, but when it came to dating, I did not interact successfully.
Looking back, I realize that interacting with girls was easy because I was feminine. However, dating girls was difficult because I had to act like a male and that was so foreign to me that I was lousy at it.
When I attended my high school’s prom, my sister had to set me up with her best friend as my date. That date went fine because I already knew my sister’s friend well; it was as if we were two girls out on a date. The only problem was that one girl had to dress like a boy. I wore a white tux and that was probably a good thing because back then, I was about 50 pounds heavier than I am now. Squeezing into a prom gown would not have been a pretty sight, but I am sure my mother would have sewn me something dreamy to wear and would have had me fitted with the proper foundation garments so that I would be voluptuous in her creation. Of course, it did not happen, but I dreamed about it nonetheless.
Times have changed. As Ray Davies once sang, “Boys will be girls and girls will be boys” and today, at some of the more progressive schools in our nation, girls do wear tuxedos to proms and boys do wear gowns.
Lucky kids!
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| Richard Gibson (left) femulating in British television’s 'Allo 'Allo! |
Back in the 80s, prom dresses were fabulous: big puffy sleeves, bright colors, velvet tops, bubble skirts, giant bows, lace ruffles, and so much more! And I wanted to wear them all, with heels dyed to match!💃
ReplyDeleteMen's "fashions" are so dull thanks to the Great Male Renunciation that started about 1750. And, it now seems we now have the Great Female Renunciation too, with the almost total dominance of women wearing trousers.
ReplyDeleteI rebel against all of this as the last time I wore trousers was in late September of 2024 to my mother's funeral. I nearly always wear nail polish, and on Sunday mornings it's time for makeup and heels, again things not many women wear wear these days.
John
The main character in a long story I've been writing forever has a closet full of vintage prom and bridesmaid dresses that he wears every Friday evening in his opposition of "casual Friday." If only...
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