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Cross-dressing is the act of wearing items of clothing not commonly associated with one's sex.[1] Cross-dressing has been used for purposes of disguise, comfort, comedy, and self-expression in modern times and throughout history. Please add profiles of historic people known to cross dress.
<“History of cross-dressing: Historical Figures” > From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Historical figures have cross-dressed for various reasons across the centuries. For example, women have dressed as men in order to go to war, and men have dressed as women in order to avoid going to war. Many people have engaged in cross-dressing during wartime under various circumstances and for various motives. This has been especially true of women, whether while serving as a soldier in otherwise all-male armies, while protecting themselves or disguising their identity in dangerous circumstances, or for other purposes. Conversely, men would dress as women to avoid being drafted, the mythological precedent for this being Achilles hiding at the court of Lycomedes dressed as a girl to avoid participation in the Trojan War. …
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- <“ History of cross-dressing” > From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- 1. "cross-dress." The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2016
- <“Cross-dressing”> From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- “A Brief History Of Crossdressing.” By All That's Interesting. Checked By Julia Day. Published October 26, 2014. Updated February 9, 2018. < link >. “According to Norse mythology, Thor and Loki were two of the earliest crossdressers known to man. Nobody knows the exact year that Icelandic people began telling this story. It wasn’t written down until the 11th century CE, but its oral equivalent had likely existed for hundreds–even thousands–of years.
- <“Cross-dressing in film and television”> From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. “ Cross-dressing in film has followed a long history of female impersonation on English stage, and made its appearance in the early days of the silent films. Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel brought the tradition from the English music halls when they came to America with Fred Karno's comedy troupe in 1910. …”
- “Top 10 Historical Cross Dressers” by Charlotte Coville. July 18, 2011 updated: April 3, 2019 < link >
- “10 Historical Cross-Dressers” by LordZB. APRIL 5, 2013. < link >
- Fashion History > Fashion History and Eras > Cross-Dressing <link >
- “8 Historical Crossdressers: Women in a Man's World.” By Miss Cellania. Jan 2, 2008. < link>
- ”Our Cross-Dressing Ancestors.” By Nicolette Jordan. October 23, 2017. < link >
- Peter Boag. “The Trouble with Cross-Dressers: Researching and Writing the History of Sexual and Gender Transgressiveness in the Nineteenth-Century American West.” Oregon Historical Quarterly, vol. 112, no. 3, 2011, pp. 322–39, https://doi.org/10.5403/oregonhistq.112.3.0322. Accessed 22 Apr. 2022.