A Change of a Dress
Sometimes it's tough being a man, but nothing eases the stress like a night out in heels and a new outfit.
Cover Story
Sleet is rattling the windows, but inside Rebecca's Girls School (For Boys), all is warm, soft, and pink as a rose. Carole, the sole student this Saturday, is taking Maiden Voyage-Beauty 101, which the syllabus describes as two and a half hours of "intensive femme focus and formation and finding the look for you." The class, "specially designed for the girl-on-the-go," lists at $225, plus equipment: Rebecca's offers breast forms, corsets, and hip pads. Hip pads are flat eye-shaped pillows, larger versions of the "cookie" that fills out a Wonderbra. They slide into four slots on a sort of anti-girdleit adds, rather than subtractsextending from waist to mid-thigh.
A self-described "full-figured gal," Carole fluffs up only his top half. He has brought his own breast formssurprisingly heavy silicone bags with sculpted nipplesand situates them in his black bra with a lean and a tug. Matching panties peep from below a Santa spread of belly as he steps into a semiformal skirt and blouse, and matching jewelry.
Carole walks on the femme side with the help of Rebecca, the proprietress, and Anna, a "cosmetics consultant." These three do not reveal their real names, Rebecca and Anna because they are married to cross-dressing men who are not "out." Carole will describe himself only as a single heterosexual who works out of his home.... Continued
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