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Other scenarios include infantilism and sissy maid. [citation needed] Clothing considered female include a bra, panties, tights, stockings, corset, petticoat, pinafore (often in the style of a French maid), dress (often extremely short or revealing, often with lock), skirt (often a mini/micro skirt), shoes (often Mary Janes or heels), etc.
Cross-dressing is the act of wearing clothes traditionally or stereotypically associated with a different gender. [2] From as early as pre-modern history, cross-dressing has been practiced in order to disguise, comfort, entertain, and express oneself.
A dominant woman and a submissive man practicing feminization. Feminization or feminisation, sometimes forced feminization (shortened to forcefem or forced femme), [1] [2] and also known as sissification, [3] is a practice in dominance and submission or kink subcultures, involving reversal of gender roles and making a submissive male take on a feminine role, which includes cross-dressing.
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) – The four masters dress in women's clothes and coerce their male victims, clothed in wedding dresses, into same-sex marriage. Incorrigible (1975) – Victor Vauthier ( Jean-Paul Belmondo ) dresses up as a transvestite to expose his client's cheating husband, but is arrested by the police during a raid.
The practice of women dressing as men was generally viewed more positively as compared to men dressing as women. Altenburger states that female-to-male cross-dressing entailed a movement forward in terms of social status, power, and freedom [ 2 ] whereas men who cross-dressed were ridiculed or otherwise viewed negatively. [ 4 ]
Jane Eyre (1847) - Mr Rochester cross-dresses as a Gypsy fortune-teller in order to fool Jane into confessing her love for him. War and Peace (1869) - Nicholas dresses in a hooped skirt, Petya dresses as a Turkish girl, Natasha dresses as a hussar, and Sonya dresses as a Circassian with a burnt-cork mustache and eyebrows to go mummering. This ...
Frederick Park (right) and Ernest Boulton as Fanny and Stella, 1869. Thomas Ernest Boulton and Frederick William Park were Victorian cross-dressers.Both were homosexual men from upper-middle-class families, both enjoyed wearing women's clothes and both enjoyed taking part in theatrical performances—playing the women's roles when they did so.
In All the Queen's Men, a 2001 comedy set during WWII, cross-dressing is a central plot device. Terry Pratchett's novel Monstrous Regiment is a satirical look at the phenomenon. I Was a Male War Bride is a comedy where the male French officer, played by Cary Grant, must dress like a woman to return as a war bride of his American military wife.