Dressing-up

Etymology

Synonymous with disguise composed starting from the Latin Prefix trans meaning to move and with the root to dress , action to carry a Clothing. The term indicates in the beginning the usurpation of Identité by the wearing of clothing not belonging to its function S or its kind, whether it is with a festive aim or of fraud.

Illustrated direction

The dressing-up (or travestism ) is the fact of getting dressed with Vêtement S with the opposed kind, independently with the identity and Sexual orientation, the follower of the dressing-up which can be as well bisexual heterosexual as or homosexual. Often confused, disguised and transsexual is not synonymous, because although the dressing-up is the obliged stage of the course to assume its transsexuality, it inevitably does not imply the will to change sex. The name of wk. (esti) or the recall of its initial kind being received by the transsexuals like worst insults because marking a refusal of comprehension of their state.

Using various artifices going of stuffings to the realistic Prosthesis S removable, out of foam or latex, to approach sought esthetics, without surgical or medical transformations, such as underlines it sometimes the abbreviation NONH meaning (“not operated nor hormonée”) of some advertisements of meeting.

Being able to be regarded as a simple play, sexual or not, the realization of a phantasm, a Political act of claim to the right to the difference or the indifference (Drag queen, Drag king, etc) in the majority of the cases, the play remains solitary.

Many are those which not wishing to leave anonymity, prefer to change exclusively within the framework of the intimacy, filled by the simple pleasure of being able to temporarily incarnate the person of their dreams or their phantasms, starting initially by being dressed by borrowing clothing from their entourage, being disguised on their premises, shutters closed, then try the experiment of the initially night exit timidly, in order to test the “credibility” of their appearance, the such scenario writer Hétérosexuel ED Wood, depicts by Tim Burton in the film éponyme, which, in the daily life, wore female underclothing under its clothing ofman. In situation of Stress, the port of a female behavior supplements returned its capacity to him.

In more glaucous cases, the dressing-up can be essential in fact on a male prostitute, to allure the extremely many customers haunting the places of dredger with the desire to discover the pleasures of the Fellation or of the Sodomie, (more often passivates than active), without feeling guilty to belong to the “homosexual world ”, as approached by the film Change me my life , of Liria Bégéja, describing the tragic course of a Maghrebian heterosexual disguising himself on the Maréchaux to ensure his subsistence.

The dressing-up of the women as men is also practiced for company names, in order to assume a “released” behavior more easily, to allure other people sensitive to male appearance, to reach places or functions where the Machisme prevails, as approaches it the film Yentl of Barbra Streisand in which the protagonist, being intended for the Talmud, is forced to dissimulate its condition to enter a Yeshiva, as well as the " Myth " Papesse Jeanne in the Catholic folklore .

The history retained sometimes the name of some in spite of, or sometimes because of, the ambiguity of their appearance, the such Chevalier of Éon, celebrates agent of the Secret of the King under Louis XV having carried out the majority of its diplomatic missions or espionage under the female appearance, of which alliance with the Russia of the Tsarina Elisabeth Petrovna, while submitting itself to the court of the latter as a Lya de Beaumont, reader of the empress then a few years later as a captain of the body of the dragon S of its majesty.

Art and culture

References in photography, performing arts, visual arts, cartoon/manga and literature are listed in the section Culture transgenre of the article Transgenre, as well as the catalog of films by chronological order and the televised series.

Alphabetical catalog of films

The list by chronological order is in the article Transgenre.

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