Variety is the Spice of Life, 'tis said, and nowhere less does this apply when you're posting photos. I hate having to pose in front of white doors but this is what I've been reduced to lately. Hopefully, help is at hand!.

  

ENOUGH is ENOUGH! I WILL block you if you try to follow me with NO PROFILE or NO PHOTOS OR If consider your photos, or your favourites, are gross or ugly. MY RULES. :)

 

THIS PROFILE IS WAY OUT OF DATE NOW, regarding activities I can no longer manage. But read on -

Hi, I'm Wanda, a fetishistic transvestite/crossdresser (means I'm straight, aroused by wearing female clothes and have no urge to transition (except in a fantasy).

What kicked it off? Seeing a white nylon slip in the airing cupboard (conveniently in my bedroom!). I was 12 years old and undressing for bed, so naturally slipped it on; the effect was electric!

The embodiment of 'Tight and Shiny'! -

it clung to my body and thrilled me. What followed, you all know. Bra next, then knickers. Once I left school and got a job. I started buying my own undies. Although it felt scary, I was so driven I had to do it and even found the humiliation of having to deal with female shop assistants strangely exciting. Since I couldn't dress at home, I usually cycled to a quiet place and outdoors. I soon realised being out in public dressed in women's clothes was an even bigger thrill.

Of course, my (step) mother found out eventually. But the foundation for my girlie behaviour was laid down in my early years, first by the loss of my natural mother when I was four, then the effect that had on me. I was a nervous boy, easily brought to tears and my father and aunt (who mostly looked after me) thought they should ridicule rather than comfort me. They would say 'stop crying', 'boys don't cry' 'we should have called you Mary'.

 

I should just mention that I 'came out' to my wife to be, thinking this would put her off but it didn't. In later years, once the children had left the nest, she actually helped me a great deal.

These days, living on my own (a widower), I am truly a housewife since the tasks never end. I've built up a wardrobe of everyday dresses, tops and skirts, and I dress whenever I can. I find dresses much more comfortable than shirts and trousers. (to be continued).

 

About the real me, in general:

 

MUSIC is my main passion (see below) and travel, perhaps, my second. Obviously I'm keen on photography - often mixed with trannery. My travel and 'arty' photos are on another Flickr account)

 

YOUR FAOs ANSWERED:

 

1. Origin of 'Wanda': from Wonderbra, hence Wandabra and Wanda Bradley. And one of my favourite actresses was Wanda Ventham, back in the '70s. (check out her pics on Google images)

 

2. I DON'T DRESS 'en femme' every day (who does?) as I'm a transvestite, not a transsexual. At home I usually leave out the wig and makeup. I DO DRESS for: photo-shoots, BUT NO LONGER when going shopping ( shopping in drab is made so easy these days).

 

3. I AM NOT currently on hormones (though I did use Oestrogel, applied topically for just over a year).

This does NOT mean I wanted to transition - just that I thought I would see if it would give me small, passable breasts (it did). But you can't have it both ways; think about going into a swimming pool as a guy. :O

Finasteride (prescribed for enlarged prostate) DID start my breasts growing again, so I'm a 38A. (But you see me mostly with silicone breastforms and hip pads, so effectively a 36D or a 38DD )

 

4. I'm now living in LIVERPOOL (back to my roots).

 

I was in an all-female bellydance class for over a year and finishing with a very public stage appearance! (I was on the front row :O). Nobody ever knew Wanda wasn't a woman. See photo on my page 3.

 

MY INTERESTS: Into Travel (but no longer cycle camping), Photography, Cycling, Music (latin, jazz, world...) AND stealthily but casually penetrating the women-only world. ;) -

 

I do enjoy conversing with intelligent guys who can string a few sentences together and have something worth saying.

 

Wanda's stats:- Height: 5ft 8in Dress/skirt/bust/shoe sizes: 16-18, 38c, 8. Eyes: brown. Hair: very little natural, various wig styles. Back, front and chin: IPL'd

 

*Favourite Thingies. (Funny - my spellcheck thinks Favourite is wrong but 'Thingies' is OK).

 

Seeing what’s over the horizon. And the next one …. ad infinitum.

Arriving in a strange city…

The Serendipity of Travel. (opposite of shit happens)

Cycling around Andalucía. Oh well, Anything in Andalucía! - flamenco, El Paseo ;)

and especially, ORGIVA and it's Café Baraka (go find :) )

Highway 1 California (listening to: Gary Burton's 'General Mojo’s Well-Laid Plan'.)

Yosemite Valley (preferably without the other visitors :) )

Deserts (full of life! - see fav authors Edward Abbey and William Least-Heat Moon below)

 

Un Café Crème, si vous plait (at a Paris pavement café)

Expensive, thick-cut marmalade.

Green & Black’s 70% dark chocolate. (one piece at a time, mind).

and of course - tight, tight corsets! Latex is yummy too.

Remarkable, remarkably-minute technology – like my Walkman MP3

Remarkably fine, old technology: A Stanier Pacific in full charge. (nostalgia ain’t what it used to be).

Bianchi bikes (never had one though :( )

 

ARTY STUFF:

 

MUSIC: (But see below for some links) Miles Davis’s ‘Kind of Blue’ . OVER 50 years old now and still the best selling jazz album EVER.

Art Blakey, Charles Mingus, Roland Kirk et al – for making the ‘60s a time to feel alive!

Chuck E Weiss for re-defining 'Cool' to it's original, hip, meaning. (Do You Know What I Idi Amin?)

All of the great arrangers: Billie Strayhorn, (for Ellington) Pete Rugulo, (for Stan Kenton) and Gil Evans (for Miles) ...

Vladimir Horowitz.

Prokofiev / ‘Romeo and Juliet’. LSO/Previn recording.

 

Songs? You want songs? I don't do 'songs' usually, (songs are for people who don't hear the music) but two that apply to me are:

Chuck E Weiss's '(Every Day)It Rains on Me' and Tom Waites' 'I Don't Wanna Grow Old'. (Who does!)

 

FILMS: Fellini’s greatest film: La Strada (maybe the only time Anthony Quinn will have you in tears), 'Belleville Rendezous.', 'La Saleur de Peur' (Wages of Fear)....

 

BOOKS: 'Desert Solitaire' /Edward Abbey and ‘Blue Highways’ /William Least Heat-Moon (ask me about them - go on!)

 

Fav. POETRY quotations:

 

James Elroy Flecker:

We travel not for trafficking alone

By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned

For lust of knowing what should not be known

We make the Golden Journey to Samarkand

 

Robert Frost:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,

I took the one less travelled by,

And that has made all the difference. (Wanda: Oh Yes! :) )

  

Fav? NOT!:

The so-called ‘Music Industry’ – for reducing people’s expectations to zilch.

'Easy Listening' (what's the point?)

‘Favourite Things’ –John Coltrane versions (too much!)

‘Favorites’ (aargh!) - also; ‘start over’ (another Microsoft-ism) 'alot' and 'could of'

 

People who can’t write in sentences and go on and on like this without using any punctuation and when they do decide to stop they leave a space then a full stop and start again without capitalising .like this.

 

I enjoy good conversation, humour, music and travel, wild walks, cycling for travel, writing and photography - as well as being girlie!. (Mixing them can be tricky, but fun! :) )

I have a science degree, a postgrad. management diploma and I'm a qualified photographer and IT trainer (a regular Jill of all trades!).

 

MUSIC is my other main passion, playing as well as listening, (kit drums and latin percussion) and I'm not talking about some 'here-today-forgotten-tomorrow' media-driven kind of crap. I’m talking about music for musicians; the kind that hits you right in the guts.

Don't care whether its classical, jazz, Cuban, avante-garde, Kletzmer, Township, Sephardic-Moorish, Flamenco, Bellydance, Rock, Blues ..... as long as it MOVES me.

 

You want names? Well here's just a few: Miles Davis, Brian Eno, Bob Marley, Manu Dibango, Tom Waits and Chuck E Weiss, Suns of Arqa, Belinda Sykes/Joglaresa, Stanley Jordan, Frank Zappa, Fleetwood Mac (some), Joe Zawinul, Bill Frizell, Carl Orff, Prokofiev, Katchaturian....

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjBcCl7i25M Osibisa

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiEfmsdRI8w] Tinariwen

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5umbkUKhFs] Manu Dibango

 

Miles Davis with Herbie Hancock on the album 'Miles in Paris '89':

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uyc3NGV9Ww Miles: Watermelon Man

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE3HfAqLtY8 Joe Zawinul

  

Did you really read all that? Then you're my kind of person - write and tell me about .... anything!