Guys & gals, now is the time for shopping 'in the store' instead of online for those I love me gifts. Some of you guys might feel out of place picking up a ladies watch, earrings, panties etc. I promise this time of year the cashiers won't raise an eyebrow nor think twice about what intimate women's things a guy might be checking out with. Bras? Pretty personal so if you can keep from looking like the 'deer in the headlights' as you check out and it is what you want..., Go for it.
I don't need to explain all this to the ladies. Women just naturally shop in the guy's dept whether for kids, husbands, boyfriends, or themselves. Our time of year for shopping in the men's dept is never off limits. Guys can do it all year in the women's fashions but you might be explaining it is a birthday gift for wife or girlfriend if the cashier raises her eyebrows. Unless of course you are one of those guys who passes without doubt. Or you have enough courage you don't care if the other shoppers gawk.
I realize there are many men who come to BC for the stories and are not so inclined to be a fashion statement in the other gender. I love men and women who have no doubt who they are. I also love all those caught somewhere inbetween the boundaries of M or F. I wish the world as a whole was more accepting and understanding there is a dawn before a day and an evening before night. God doesn't snap on the day. He doesn't do it with lives either. No matter how definitive one thinks they are M or F, there is some of the opposite in each and everyone. Personally I think God did it just perfect.
life is meant to be lived not worn until it's worn out
always,
Barb
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I don't pass
Well, mostly I don't pass, but sometimes... At any rate about twenty years ago, I decided that if some sales clerk had an issue with me buying what I wanted in their store, then I'd simply take my business elsewhere. What's more, shortly there after, I decided that I wasn't going to buy anything that I couldn't try on. Given that most fitting rooms these days have full floor to ceiling walls and locking doors like a walk-in closet I don't feel a bit bad about going in and trying on.
Shortly after I decided that I wouldn't buy unless I could try on, I happened by Sears one day after work. I was wearing my work uniform, which left no room for doubt that my body was definitely male. As I often do, regardless of how I'm dressed, I took a stroll through ladies fashions. I spotted a dress that I really liked, but the fit would be questionable. I decided that I'd simply ask if I could try it on. I went to the cash register and asked the attendant if there was someplace I could try on the dress. She looked up at me and wave her arm toward the wall behind her and said, "The fitting rooms are right there." The area she indicated was the women's fitting rooms. I don't for a second believe she thought I was a woman who had to wear men's clothes for work. She knew I was male and wanted to try on a dress and had no qualms about me using the women's fitting room.
BTW, I've only once been denied a request to try on. It was at a secondhand store and the young clerk simply felt uncomfortable with a man trying on women's clothes. I'd been in before when the owner was there and she had no trouble. I didn't make a fuss. I apologized for troubling the clerk, laid the garment on the counter and left. Not necessarily because that, I didn't go back. The next time I noticed the store, some other establishment was there.
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin eine Mann