Taffy's Tea Trolley
Happy Hello and welcome to Taffy's Tea Trolley, my place of respite and quiet enjoyment. I hope you find my trolley to your liking, perhaps even as much fun to view as it has been to create. Pull a chair up to the trolley, help yourself to a nice hot glass of tea, spoon in a big dollop of sweet strawberry jam and enjoy yourself while you are here. You are my guest and are most welcome...
I'm Taffy, a cheerful, cute, sweet and endearing, ever eager-to-please 10-year old girl fascinated by the fashions of the late 1950's through the late 1960's and all things "being a girl" meant way back then. I am happy to be the interesting facet, the best feature of a 50+ year old, faithful and happily married, heterosexual crossdresser. My name doesn't appear on the checking account. <grin>
I dress today as though I were still living in those innocent days at the tail end of the 1950s and through the 1960s, forever trapped in that time when fashion was at its cutest and most precious, at least for us little girls. Dressing up calls for pretty party dresses with bouffant full slips, ruffled panties, lace-trimmed anklets and patent leather Mary Janes. These styles are way more attractive than the much more revealing and suggestive styles offered today as "girl's fashion" (or as I call it, the "tramp in training" look). Even the "tomboy" styles of those bygone days possessed a "cuteness" consistent with an innocent overall image, virtually absent in today's styles. Who could not love those cute skort outfits of the late '50s?
Over the time since I put this site up, in addition to attending ten LG (adult Little Girl) Camps, I have had the opportunity to review and refine my sense of style. LGs, like actual little girls, vary in their taste from the very frilly to tomboy in dress. I am one of the less frilly LGs, tending to dress more like Molly, the American Girl. I am partial to parochial school uniforms, modest cheerleader jumpers, gymsuits, velvet and satin overalls, pop-skirts and rompers, although a sparkling white cotton eyelet communion dress is hard to beat for a dress-up occasion. I am almost never without lace-trimmed anklets....
Little girls of today dress and act like midget adults, obsessed with looking like smaller-sized replicas of their mothers and are expected to be forever chasing boys. Totally lacking now is that more modest, asexual and yet distinctive fashion sense every little girl learned at her mother's knee so long ago. Along with this disappearance of modesty has come a widespread obsession with sexuality, promoted unceasingly as, "look sexual or sexy, but don't actually do it." A thoroughly dreadful state of affairs...
This site is a valiant, perhaps Quixotic, attempt to turn the tide. These pages are filled with pictures, commentary and discussion of the fashions of that long-gone era, the ones I find attractive. Perhaps you, too, will come to appreciate what "his" wife refers to as my "exquisite fashion sense" and begin incorporating these "retro" styles into your everyday, casual and party wardrobe. In any case, these styles are classic and will be back in fashion again in some form or variant, sooner or later. Be accepting, be prepared, and you will be on the leading edge of the next wave, returning the cuteness of classic style yet again to the little girl's fashion scene.
Curiously, "cute" remains in vogue in Japan, even if it has left the US for good. Virtually every manufacturer of tennis wear produces a line for Japan, and in each of those lines are ruffled tennis panties, although it is impossible to get those same items here. With a rare exception, Keddies of California, the other manufacturers have dropped these from their US lines. Many of the younger Japanese popular singers wear essentially little girl styles, complete with quite visible ruffled panties. Hmmm, maybe trading "cute" for cars isn't so bad after all.
To help those who are unfamiliar with this little corner of the crossdressing community, a portion of this site called "His Pages" provide a little personal history, some commentary about crossdressing in general and links to sites providing information on the subject, explaining what it is and what it is not. This is rather important, as there are a number of hugely incorrect stereotypes and myths surrounding crossdressing in general and transgenerational crossdressing in specific.
I ask you to answer a simple survey after viewing my website, letting me know what you think. I am always open to suggestions and have made many changes to my pages in response to viewers suggestions. Of course, if you like my site or want to offer suggestions, please either write to me personally or sign my GuestBook, (which has been acting up recently due to changes in the way GeoCities operates their site)..
One suggestion which has been made many times, which I shall not honor, is to put pictures of myself on this site. The purpose of this site is to glorify the fashions I love, not to show pictures of myself...
As new pages are added, a
button will appear above the button linked to the page for a period of 30 days. I loathe being taken to a page where I get an "Under Construction" animated graphic. Since I am laying out pages from the top down, I've chosen to indicate that a page is not yet ready is by placing "
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If what you see here strikes your fancy or piques your curiosity, mark this page and come back as the spirit moves you. I shall be updating it frequently (now that I have finally figured out how) and will endeavor to make each visit interesting... If you would like to be notified by email automatically each time this page is updated, enter you email address in the notification request below. Just to give you guessing, I shall occasionally offer a picture of a recent purchase as a hidden treat ...
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Last Update: 12/29/2003
Web Author: Taffy@Cheerful.Com
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