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crossdressing

04/18/2011
7:15 PMto8:30 PM
04/25/2011
7:15 PMto8:30 PM

veronica vera Amazing Grace, How To Walk, Sit & Pose in High Heels

Do you admire a woman who enters a room with confidence? Would you like to be that woman?

Back by popular demand and just in time for the spring party and prom season is Miss Vera’s class in how to walk in high heels, sponsored by the world’s renowned crossdressing academy, Miss Vera’s Finishing School for Boys Who Want to Be Girls and Women Who Want to Be Femme-tastic. Experience has taught us that there is much to learn, so the current class is divided into two sessions.

Part One on April 18 will concentrate on walking. Part Two on April 25 focuses on sitting and posing and everyday challenges. Both sessions are required for completion.

Your instructors are Miss Maryanne Byington, the academy’s esteemed dean of high heels – a ballroom champion, and the delightful Miss Julia Kaye, Bolshoi trained dancer and model. High heels are not a strict requirement – flats and low heels are certainly permitted.This class is open to all serious students -gentleman may participate in heels and drab. These integrated group classes provide a unique social as well as educational opportunity for the participants who are united in a common purpose, the grace of feminine movement.

Particpants: Open to all serious students.

A Lesson in 2 Parts
Pt. One, Monday, April 18, Pt. Two, Monday April 25
Time: 7:15p-8:30 pm
Doors open at 7pm

Place: 250 W. 54 Street
Tuition: $79 total for both sessions. Credit cards accepted.
Advance registration required. Class size limited to 15.
Low Heels, permitted. Skirts, preferred.
Ph: 212-989-0906, email: register at missvera dot com

 

Would you like us to organize a special class for you and your friends? Group Inquiries invited. Private classes also available for individuals and couples.

Teens welcome with parental permission.

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A bra for men becomes the hottest selling men’s underwear item on a Japanese online shopping site.

The move has provoked heated online discussion in Japan with thousands debating the merits of male use of the item of underwear.

Toshi Maeda reports.

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wagnersmall Wagner   public genius with a private passion for bustles, bows and bodices (Guardian)
Charlotte Higgins, arts correspondent
The Guardian

A previously unpublished letter by Richard Wagner to a firm of Milanese couturiers offers the intriguing possibility that the great composer was, in fact, a cross-dresser.

The letter is published for the first time today in the inaugural edition of the Wagner Journal. In it, the composer of the Ring des Nibelungen details the cut of an outfit, ostensibly intended for his wife, Cosima.

Requesting “something graceful for evenings at home” he continues: “The bodice will have a high collar, with a lace jabot and ribbons; close-fitting sleeves; the dress trimmed with puffed flounces – of the same satin material – no basque at the front (the dress must be very wide and have a train) but a rich bustle with a bow at the back, like the one at the front) …”

He concludes: “And so: richness of the material, width, ruches, flounces, bustles, ribbons – all to the good: but none of those basques attached by means of pins etc”.

According to Barry Millington, co-editor of the Wagner Journal, the letter, dating from January 1874 and now in a private collection in the US, “adds weight to the theory that the composer exhibited the tendencies of a cross-dresser”. At the very least, he suggests, it points to an extremely detailed, if not fetishistic, interest in the minutiae of ladies’ apparel. (more…)

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