FabSwingers.com forum: A TV goes into a shop

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

In shop dressed up in full TV mode - m or f changing rooms? Or in male mode but want to try to try fem clothes. How do you react?

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By *adcowWoman
over a year ago

kirkcaldy

aren't most places unisex now anna????

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

i havent gone dreesed and i never try on fem stuff in shops lol so dont know

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i thought this was going to a joke about a tv going into a shop,i was waiting for the punchline

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

that was tae get folks to read it....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

well technically i think if you are dressed as a woman it should be the womans changin area but can see why some people wouldnt agree???

but the mens changing room you possibly going to get abuse??

its a tricky question!!

sod it disabled changin it more private and the mirrors generally more flatterin!!

ps new looks changin rooms have the worst mirrors in the world!!! xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

whatever your comfortable with surely ? when you say your reaction are you talking about mine if i seen somone going into the womans or the guys ? personally wouldnt bother me in the slightest each to their own like i said whatever your happy with really

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I think I was asking how people (ie you reading this) would feel / think / react because a lot of nervous fears are all in the head. I don't try stuff on in shops (unless specific tv catering shops)but I'd like to maybe. So if you are male and a male (or a TV) goes into the male changing area with female dress to try on, or your female and a TV goes into female changing(NOT a male)what are your thoughts? Example: I bought a coupe of pairs of hold ups in Tesco and what a look a female gave me lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

ok anna i have thought about your question and .......

if u came into the female changing rooms(open plan ones) i would have no problem with it at all HOWEVER I know alot of ppl that would for various reasons, 1 being many women take their children shopping with them and perhaps dont feel either because their age or for whatever reason they should have to explain y a man is in the ladies changing area trying on ladies clothes!!

similarly some men dont have a problem with men who dress as women and wouldnt see that as a big problem in the changing area BUT ALOT OF MEN WOULD!!

Most of the diabled changing rooms are not open plan and are in cubicle form so perhaps this is the way for your to go right now. xxxx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

bloody hell tracey,,,,why are you sooo clever??? AND this early in the morning too??? lol

auds xx

oo i agree with everything you say you clever lady xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

right with you now op . i wouldnt care to be honest if its a male changing room and your trying on whatever you want , way i look at it is its none of my business . who am i to judge anyone on anything . just go for it and ognore the narrow minded folk . best of luck

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

DO NOT PANIC Im not actually doing the trying on thing (and don't plan to) I simply wondered how folks felt and yes the children thing is VERY important. Even if Im buying stockings or make up in Tesco n using self swipe I keep away from kids prying eyes lol. It is just a challenge getting gear and I've made a few mistakes lol

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By *b430Man
over a year ago

Tayside

Just my thoughts, but why bother what other people think when you buy things like stockings, make-up, etc in a supermarket?

When I was married and the ex asked me to get her anything like that when I went out shopping I got it!

Isn't it normal for men with partners to sometimes have to buy these sorts of things?

It might just be me but I don't care what other people think and tbh it's none of their business anyway what you buy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

you should do whatever u feel comfortable with anna many peeps will give u stick for it but who cares as long as ur the happy one gd luck xxx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"DO NOT PANIC Im not actually doing the trying on thing (and don't plan to) I simply wondered how folks felt and yes the children thing is VERY important. Even if Im buying stockings or make up in Tesco n using self swipe I keep away from kids prying eyes lol. It is just a challenge getting gear and I've made a few mistakes lol"

hey anna hun u wanty go shopping in glasgow

give me a shout ill go with u hun xxx

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

aww ty honey xxxx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anna... i think ur asking the wrong audience to be honest.

Folk on here are probably more tollerant and accepting of all folk, whatever their sexuality or any other preference for that matter.

Wouldnt bother me if you changed in guys changing area but if you asked guys on a rugby club forum etc you may get a different response!!

Steve

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When I ran a ladies wear shop, I had a few T.V's/cross dressers who used to buy things from me. I eventually had a 'guys' only evening every fortnight where I kept the shop open for a couple of hours after the usual closing time. I would lock the doors and make sure ladies knew it was a 'guys' only night. There were women who had no problem with guys buying clothes but once they found out it wasn't for their girlfriends wives etc. they got a bit 'nippy' with them.

I found it was generally more comfortable for both to be kept apart and have separate shopping nights, I was also able to give more dedicated advice and time to all my lovely T.V's who sometimes needed a little more time and advice.

My advice Anna would be to source out a couple of friendly independent shops rather than 'mainstream' chains for a more personal and intimate service. xxx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anna im all for you doing whatever you feel comfortable with feck a would probably help zip ye up if you came in to the changing room when i was there lol but ..... in the age of internet would online shopping not give you more time to choose and select and save you all the worry of what narrow minded folk think.

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By *eclan_and_AimeeCouple
over a year ago

dunblane, stirling

"My advice Anna would be to source out a couple of friendly independent shops rather than 'mainstream' chains for a more personal and intimate service. xxx"

Sorry, I'm going to have to slightly disagree with you Laine, just to confuse you Anna lol.

I worked with a bit of a prude, and one day she was telling me a story about an independant clothes shop that she used to work in, a man (dressed as a man) had come into the shop and politely asked to try on a pair of women's jeans... he was swiftly asked to leave the shop!?

Now, he might not have even been a tv/cd he might have had a slight figure and decided women's jeans simply fit him better. I was shocked and appalled that people are treated like that on a narrow minded assumption.

I personally wouldn't mind if I ended up sharing a changing area with either gender, possibly because I prefer the cubicles, but I really dont see what it matters. Wouldn't it be, in effect, the same as sharing a changing room with someone who was gay/bi?... I mean, just because someone is the opposite/same gender to you doesn't mean they want to watch you get undressed.

I do agree that it may be 'safer' to stick to the unisex changing rooms though, I think most of the New Looks are like that.

xAx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Having had to find a pair of size 11 heels for haloween i can see what the problem is. Asked in a well known larger ladies store to try on a pair and from the reaction you would think i just asked to publicly bugger them lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My advice Anna would be to source out a couple of friendly independent shops rather than 'mainstream' chains for a more personal and intimate service. xxx

Sorry, I'm going to have to slightly disagree with you Laine, just to confuse you Anna lol.

I do agree that it may be 'safer' to stick to the unisex changing rooms though, I think most of the New Looks are like that.

xAx"

I agree with you A about the prudes, that's why I ended up doing men only nights in the shop with no women allowed on those nights. Even my ex mother in law was a big prude but had guys nights in her own shop, any sale was a sale to her irrespective of who it was from. And that was nearly 30 years ago when she last owned shops and in a small village. What I was trying to say was, you may get more empathic care if you approach the shop owners, they don't care as long as a sale is a sale.

p.s not many shops I've been into these days have 'unisex' changing rooms now.

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