Cross-dressing



 or transvestitism is the act of wearing clothes traditionally or stereotypically associated with a different gender.[2] From as early as pre-modern history, cross-dressing has been practiced in order to disguise, comfort, entertain, and express oneself.

Quotes

 * Rosalind: Were it not better, Because that I am more than common tall, That I did suit me all points like a man? A gallant curtle-axe upon my thigh, A boar-spear in my hand; and—in my heart Lie there what hidden woman's fear there will— We'll have a swashing and a martial outside, As many other mannish cowards have That do outface it with their semblances.Celia: What shall I call thee when thou art a man?Rosalind: I'll have no worse a name than Jove's own page; And therefore look you call me Ganymede.
 * Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act I, Scene 3


 * Viola: I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too: and yet I know not.
 * Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 4