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Originally posted by sycamore
From what I've read, it's a place where crossdressers are made up to look more like they "are," e.g. to make a crossdressing man look more like a female. Don't know if it applies to transgendered types or not...I would suspect so.
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There are a lot of businesses that do makeovers, sell extra-large size clothes and wigs, and help transvestites learn make-up tips and other stuff Mom didn't teach them....kinda like "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy"...but different, and they don't get a new sofa.
They do seem to mostly cater to (or attract, your choice) a transvestite crowd rather than transsexuals. There's a related kind of business that calls themselves "image consultants" that'a a bit more mainstream that TS folk (rich ones, anyhow) might make more use of.
("Transgender" is a synthetic term people use when the're trying to be "inclusive" of TVs, TSs who are post-op, TS's who are pre-op, folks who identify as TS but aren't candidates for surgery, either by choice, or for financial or medical reasons, and other random folks with gender issues of various kinds.)
Especially relevant to this particular case, there's an additional thrill attached for some folks to be "cooerced" into the transformation in some way, like having it happen on orders of a dominatrx. This probably acts to relieve the guilt associatied with wanting something taboo. This whole genre of stuff is called "forced feminization", and is pretty much exclusively a transvestite thing...I suspect that's what was being done on these premises in Tacony.