Saturday, February 14, 2015

Any Womanless Veterans?


Occasionally, I have brought your attention to various events in which civilian (non-trans) males dress as females to participate in womanless beauty pageants, womanless fashion shows, womanless weddings, and womanless etceteras.

In almost every womanless event, there are one or two "girls" participating who are outstanding... so outstanding that you wonder if it was their first time... rather than being a civilian, are they actually one of us. Or they may be first timers, but their experience releases their inner girl and they so enjoy being a girl that they become one of us.

Those thoughts have become urban legends around here and I wonder if there is any truth to them. So are any of you readers past participants of a civilian non-trans womanless event?

If you were a beauty queen or a fashion model or a bridesmaid in a civilian womanless event I would love to hear and share your story and photos (I just know that you have photos.)

Or is there really nothing to our urban legends?






Source: MyHabit

Wearing Versace.






Model Alex Wetter.

Friday, February 13, 2015

Michelle's Favorite Photos (of Michelle!)


Hi Stana... greetings from the UK...

I am an avid follower of your site... keep up the great work.

Please find attached my favourite picture. I'll be honest, it may not even be my best picture... I have many that certainly look more professional and more amazing, all of which were taken during visits to transformation services... no, the reason this is my favorite is that it is the first time it was all my own work... hair, makeup, clothes, etc., etc... and also my first venture outside into the world

I hope you like it as much as me.

Michelle Norton (UK)

In response to my open invitation to send your favorite photo along with the story behind it and the reason it is your favorite photo, I received a lot of photos and stories that I am posting in the the order I received them. My invitation still stands, so don't be shy, send me your fave foto!








Source: MyHabit

Wearing Torn by Ronny Kobo.



Comedian Terry Sweeney femulates Nancy Reagan on television's Saturday Night Live (1985).


Thursday, February 12, 2015

Being Catty

Sunday, I flipped the night away between the Grammy Awards on CBS and the Saturday Night Live Rewind on VHF1 Classic.

Old lady that I am, I don't care for most of the music presented during the Grammy Awards and I watch the program mostly to see what the girls are wearing.

Rhianna got rave reviews for this gown, but I did not like it one bit. It looked like she was wearing bubble wrap and way too much of it to boot.
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I also did not care much for Justin Bieber's dress, but it was nice to see him expressing his feminine side again. justin
On the other hand, I liked Beyonce's gown. It was very classy, but it is not something I would wear (I don't like my drag to drag). beyonce
My favorite was Taylor Swift's outfit. It was so Stana... definitely something I would like to wear!

And so it goes! (I’ll be Catty again after the Oscars.)
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Source: Rent the Runway

Wearing Versace

 

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Florin Ristei femulates singer Elena Gheorghe on Romanian television’s
Te Cunosc DE Undeva! (Your Face Sounds Familiar!).

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Battle of the Bulge

Too often, I am surprised to see a photo of a lovely trans lady spoiled by an unsightly bulge below the waistline.

I am sure that sometimes a visible bulge is intentional, that is, for whatever reason, the "lady" wants viewers to know that she is really a he. On the other hand, most trans ladies prefer that the bulge be invisible.

If you wear a garment with a pleated or flouncy skirt, then hiding your boy parts is usually not a concern. Pleats and flounces hide the bulge, but nearly all other womenswear require attending to the bulge.

The ultimate solution is to have those parts surgically removed.

But if you are not ready for the ultimate solution, there are other ways and they involve tucking those parts out of sight and maintaining the tuck. There is no need to reinvent the wheel, so I point you to wikiHow's tucking instructions.

Personally, I have never used tape to maintain a tuck. For my preferred method of staying tucked, scroll down the wikiHow page to "Tucking Without Tape."

The tape-free method works as long as the garment you use to maintain the tuck is tight enough. Surprisingly, I found that a gaff performs a poor job. I bought a gaff in the last century and was unimpressed with its staying power. Maybe 21st Century gaffs are better  I dunno.

On the other hand, I have had a lot of success staying tucked by wearing panty girdles and spandex bikini-style panties (not at the same time, and the tighter, the better).

And so it goes (and hopefully, doesn't show).





Source: Bluefly

Wearing Belle De Jour.





Source: Cheryl

Beautiful womanless beauty pageant participant.

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Davina's Favorite Photo (of Davina!)


Hi Stana,

I had been wondering whether I should contribute a photo to your Femulate readers' favorite photo feature and I finally decided on what to send. 

This photo was taken during Esprit 2014, which is the transgender event held in Port Angeles, Washington, in mid-May every year. One of the things that visitors to Port Angeles can do is to take the ferry across to Victoria, British Columbia, for a day trip and it seems to have become a regular event among Esprit participants. 

This year, the plan was to visit the world-famous Butchart Gardens just outside the city. I joined the group (there were eight of us) in a slightly apprehensive frame of mind because this would be far and away the most committing trip en femme that I had ever done considering the fact that I would be crossing an international border. However, I needn't have worried. 

In both directions, the officials were courteous and welcoming. The weather that day was wonderful: blue skies and hot sunshine. We strolled around the gardens, mingling with the other visitors. We also indulged in the traditional high tea, where we were addressed very properly as "ladies" (we were all in our best summer frocks precisely for this occasion). At one point during the day, one of my companions managed to capture this smile on my face, which somehow sums up the day. 

Esprit has certain features in common with Fantasia Fair, but the scenic setting is much more spectacular. I can thoroughly recommend Port Angeles as a tourist destination!

Best wishes,

Davina

In response to my open invitation to send your favorite photo along with the story behind it and the reason it is your favorite photo, I received a lot of photos and stories that I am posting in the the order I received them. My invitation still stands, so don't be shy, send me your fave foto!







Source: Vogue

Paris street style, Fall 2014.





Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/79284543@N00/

Womanless beauty pageant contestant.

Monday, February 9, 2015

Alice's Favorite Photo (of Alice!)

Choosing a favorite photo of myself is actually quite difficult. I have a few photos that I quite like, but over the past few years, two fairly significant things have changed how I view my own photos.

First, in 2011, at age 42, I stopped wearing wigs after working out how to fudge my hairline. After that, I found that I just wasn't all that keen on older photos where I was wearing a wig.

Then in 2012, I decided to challenge myself to try to pull off the 1950s pinup style. There were several reasons, including that it adds a lot of hair styling options and high stiletto heels are a perfectly acceptable part of the look, even when wandering around a shopping center. ;-) Fairly soon, I found that I wasn't all that keen on older "plain" photos.

Ironically, in spite of having many, many photos where I was wearing high heels, my favorite photo at present is a seated selfie taken at the salon when I went for my fortnightly nail appointment. Yes, even in boy mode, I always have my nails long with acrylic overlays to protect them and painted usually bright red to go with my favorite pinup outfits

I like this photo so much that it's now the profile photo on my boy profile on Facebook!

In response to my open invitation to send your favorite photo along with the story behind it and the reason it is your favorite photo, I received a lot of photos and stories that I am posting in the the order I received them. My invitation still stands, so don't be shy, send me your fave foto!









Source: MyHabit

I'd wear that to work this spring!










Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/79284543@N00/

If she came in third, imagine what the winner of this womanless beauty pageant looked like!

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Remembering Tom Swift

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This volume rests on my virtual bookshelf next to my Hardly Boys and Nancy-Boy Drew books.

 

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Source: Madeleine

Wearing Madeleine.

 

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Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/79284543@N00/

Concern surrounds this womanless beauty pageant contestant because she is bra-less.

Saturday, February 7, 2015

Hannah’s Favorite Photo (of Hannah!)

Hannah_Gotta_www Hi Stana,

I love this picture because I think it represents one of the high points in my life as a T-girl.

I started a group about a year ago called The MN T-Girls, a social and support group for crossdressers and transgirls in Minnesota. More information about the group can be found here.

The purpose of the group is to get out and be social and have fun. We go out for dinner, to museums and have coffee.

The highlight of our outings so far is when I organized an after-hours shopping event with ULTA. We had about 15 girls there who chatted with makeup artists, received makeovers and did some shopping. It was so fun. I was so proud of the girls, some of them had never been out of the house before. I blogged about the event here.

The picture was taken a little after midnight, I was exhausted. but never felt more beautiful or proud to be a T-girl!

Love, Hannah

http://hannahgotta.wordpress.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hannahgotta/

 

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Source: MyHabit

Wearing Thakoon.

 

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Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/79284543@N00/

Womanless beauty pageant contestant and her proud mother.

Friday, February 6, 2015

You're Tall

One of my best femulating moments was when I was browsing the racks at the local Nordstrom and a saleswoman nearby spoke up, "You're tall. I'm tall, too. How tall are you?"

I said, "Six foot two."

She replied, "I'm six foot one."

And she engaged me in a discussion about being a tall female. She asked me how I liked being tall when I was a girl. ("I loved it.") She admitted that she had some difficulties during her school years because of her height, but as an adult, she was happy with her height.

After we exchanged a few more words, I excused myself and walked on air for the rest of my day at the mall.

I used to worry that I could never pass because of my height. That day at the mall convinced me otherwise.

I maintained a list of famous and infamous tall women (my Famous Females of Height list) to convince myself and my readers that being a tall female was not that unusual... that there were other tall women out there and that tall girls like us can fit right in!

I regularly updated the list as you and I discovered additional tall women to add to the list, but I have not updated the list in almost a year. Personally, I no longer needed the list, so there was no urgency to update it. However, I continued to collect additions to the list and decided that the 8th anniversary of this blog would be a good time to update it.

And so I did.

Here are the ladies I added to the list today:

5’8” – Gauahar Khan – Indian model and actress – Source: Peaches

5’8” – Katy Perry – singer – Source: Stana

5’9” – Malia Obama – daughter of U.S. President – Source: Meg Winters

5’9” – Aishwarya Sakhuja – Indian model and actress – Source: Peaches

5’9” – Olivia Williams – actress, film Rushmore – Source: Stana

5’10" – Brandi Glanville – model and actress, television The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills – Source: GK

5'10" – Shraddha Musale – Indian model and actress – Source: Peaches

5'10" – Rachel Nichols – actress and model – Source: Peaches

5'10" – Robin Roberts – talking head, television Good Morning America – Source: Meg

5'10" – Beth Ostrosky Stern – American television personality, actress and the wife of 6'5" radio personality Howard Stern – Source: Peaches

5'10" – Analeigh Tipton – actress, television Manhattan Love Story – Source: GK

5'10" – Phoebe Tonkin – Australian model and actress – Source: Peaches

5’11” – Kavita Kaushik – Indian actress – Source: Peaches

5’11” – Alena Seredova – Czech model and actress – Source: Peaches

6’0" – Cristina Chiabotto – Italian TV personality – Source: Peaches

6’0” – Jordin Sparks – singer – Source: Meg Winters and Peaches

6’1” – Jodie Kidd – English television personality and fashion model – Source: Peaches

6’1” – Tara Moss – Canadian– Australian novelist, TV presenter, journalist – Source: Peaches

6’2” – Ireland Eliesse Baldwin – model – Source: Stana

6’2” – Natasha Stefanenko – Russian actress – Source: Peaches

6'4" – Lois De Fre – nightclub bouncer – married 3'7" Billy Curtis in 1938 – Source: Peaches






Source: HauteLook

Wearing Badgley Mischka.






Actors Seth Tucker, Marty-Thomas, Alex Ringler, Curtis Wiley, Nic Cory
and Nick Cearley in the 2014 stage production of Pageant: The Musical.

Thursday, February 5, 2015

We Are All Women


Eight years ago today, I launched Femulate with the following short post:

Welcome to my new blog!

I am a male, who occasionally goes out in the world emulating a female. This blog documents my adventures en femme.

Back then I was in denial about who I really was and referred to myself as a “plain vanilla crossdresser.” Being a crossdresser was “safe.” I could avoid facing the truth and complicating my life.

Things changed. 

Writing this blog on a daily basis changed me. I grew with the blog and faced ― or rather accepted and embraced the truth that I was a woman. 

I was not a woman trapped in a man's body; I was a woman dealing with society’s expectations of what a human being with my body parts was supposed to be.

Society viewed me as a feminine guy and likely gay, but I knew that I was neither. I was a woman plain and simple and I was determined to live my life as the best woman I could be despite the circumstances I found myself in and despite society's desire to straight jacket me. It has not been easy, but some people have it harder than I, so I feel blessed in many ways.

Whether you consider yourself a crossdresser, a transvestite, a transgender, a transsexual, or a whatever, I really believe we are all women.

And I hope this blog has helped you come to that realization and begin living your life as the women you are.






Source: Bluefly

Wearing 4.Collection.







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