Mrs Silk Sissies

Mrs Silk Sissies
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melodyinsights

Non-Kink , Opinion , Rants

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For those of us of a certain age and who had early Internet access Mrs Silk was a revelation and a pioneer. It’s seems that her achievements were rather accidental as she never really capitalised on them. That’s often the way with pioneers, they start something but it takes others to really make it a success.
Mrs Silk ran a dressing service around the back of Euston Station, probably not uncoincidentally far from the Beaumont Society and the centre of what passed for trans resources in the late 80’s and early 90’s.
Her genius vision was to spot the Internet and to create a website for her business. Today that doesn’t sound very radical, but in the mid 90’s she was the very first real web site that catered for CD/TS/TV interests and it was an eye opening find for people like myself.
The site rapidly changed from just advertising her shop to being an interactive hangout for like minded people. In the days when your home connection was a 19,200 modem, the idea of a site with a chatroom was truly revolutionary. It was quirky and quite cosy in there as well as being totally free form.
It was an environment you couldn’t even imagine today. There was no security, you could pick a fresh name each time you entered the room – lots of potential for wind-ups as well as mischief. The limited number of concurrent users, I think it was 25, meant that even with different aliases it was hard to be unrecognised.
Etiquette was minimal unless Mrs Silk was in the room, as she often was in the early days. Silk herself could be quirky and stroppy, there was a famous time when she got the hump and pulled the plug on the room. I was actually a witness to it, I was logged in from a hotel in California and saw the row building as a couple of newbies challenged whether it was the real Mrs Silk in the room and took the mickey out of her. To prove it really was her she said she would kill the chatroom and proceeded to do so – leaving it down for the best part of two weeks. I always felt sorry for one well-known member who was in the room at the time and quietly chatting with Mrs Silk, s/he was famous for being irascible and was blamed for several years afterwards for being the one to upset Mrs Silk.
That place provided me with some valuable lessons for later interactions, online and real life.
It was the first place I found myself being accosted by a “dom” and accused of not being a true submissive because I wouldn’t obey orders from someone with a capital letter in their name. It sounds so simple from this distance in time, but as a newbie struggling to understand lots of suppressed ideas and feelings, that sort of accusation really cuts to the quick.
Silk’s chatroom also provided a salutary experience that is still incredibly important to me today and colours my online behaviour. Because the room didn’t require an actual login you could enter your usual name and find it rejected because someone else was using it – either innocently, or more likely, pretending to be you.
I logged on one day to find myself immediately accosted in private chat by someone in very deep distress. When people first came across Mrs Silks site they were usually nervous, confused, stressed and coming to terms with the horror of being gender fluid and thoughts of being submissive – I know I was.
This person who accosted me was brand new and had just been subjected to a long sadistic mind-fuck by someone impersonating my user name. They had done so in a tag team with someone else. This poor newbie was so worked over and distressed that the only solution they saw for themselves was to commit suicide !!
It took me several hours to talk this person around and it was a very intense experience. I later made it known to Silks and the room in general as well as tackling the perpetrators. These scum were exceedingly pleased with themselves and only expressed disappointment that the victim hadn’t gone and killed themselves.
As the years roll by we often forget what it was like to be a newbie gathering the courage to enter a new world. We’ve heard it all before. To this day I remember this experience and will make the time to talk to a newbie in difficulties, to hopefully show them how to cope and avoid such pitfalls.
Despite that I have lots of fond memories of Silks. It was there I met the first person I would call Mistress. It was also where I had the fascinating discovery that dommes were actually real and normal females. I had several domme friends in there and often the last thing we would talk about in hours of chat was kink. Intelligence, humour and character were what they were really interested in and it was a good lesson to learn.
Despite being an early web pioneer, Mrs Silk failed to grasp the opportunity. The site remained unkempt and was rarely updated whilst the competition moved in. Mrs Silk herself rarely bothered with the place any more.
My big gripe with the site is that Mrs Silk herself died in March 2006 and to this day it has never been acknowledged by those left to own and run the site. I find it disrespectful and upsetting when I see they have released a “brand new” photo set of Mrs Silk. The poor woman died in her mid 60’s, today she’d be approaching 80. As good as she looked in her 50’s, I don’t think it does anyone credit to have those 20/25 year old pictures constantly photo-shopped. It’s dishonest to the site members that think it is the real Mrs Silk and continue to express devotion.
The fiction appears to be that she’s moved to Florida and trains US sissies, as the flag in this picture alludes to. This is a fairly recent photo shoot added to the site. She looks great. The problem is that this must have been taken at least 10 and probably 15 years before she died – so the best part of 30 years ago.
The website is now very much a niche footnote in the annals of kink on the Internet.
Yet it should always be remembered, along with Mrs Silk, as to how it pioneered not just kink, but a place for the vulnerable to find support from others when questioning their gender and sexual identity.
Every March 6th I raise a glass to the woman who fundamentally set me on the path to what I am today.

Daniella Kent

May 23, 2022 @
6:58 pm

Mrs Silk was a star. The blog above does say she never capitalised on her success, but I am not sure that is entirely true. I believe she made quite a lot of money – the last time I visited her there was a Bentley parked in the drive as well as a high end BMW. But above all she was wonderful to this community and could well be considered a pioneer. She obviously helped a lot of people. She gave me my first professional makeover and I can still remember my first experience of that stunning feeling when I looked in the mirror, that feeling that we all know so well! I still have a polaroid photo she took of me that day. She was also the first person who put me in bondage while dressed. She was very sexy and great company! I also loved the chatroom, and some of the comments here brought back loads of memories.

sissy rachel

May 1, 2022 @
9:38 am

I was on that site very often as sissy rachel in the 2000’s mostly. It helped me explore a repressed side of myself. A side that was soft, gentle, and feminine. I learned about new kinks aswell that went along with my feminine self. I was able to talk to people without judgement. I’ve gone on to explore more of that side of myself. I hope everyone who came on regularly is doing well and I appreciate Mrs. Silk for creating the site.

Sissy Mocinha

April 4, 2022 @
8:06 am

Thanks for the real. Although it’s been a little over 10 years since I discovered what it was like to be a Sissy, one of my first references was seeing some pictures of Mr Silk. Recently I came across some photos of some of her content, where sissys appear with cloth diapers, this was wonderful for me.
Her content, and especially Mrs Loving Sissy Feminization content, made me the sissy I am today.

eleanorerelieva

February 10, 2022 @
5:42 pm

The night is cold and dark as my hopes and fate. I’ve come so far at very late. You’ve given me the one reason I should stay. Please let me speak while I lay. Youre wonderful and beautiful, and when we talk, I often feel fulfilled. Please forgive me for I have fallen from grace. I wish to be beside you dressed in lace. I have something written in rp room, my thoughts and darkness at a loom. Please come back to me and be my knight, I am only wish to be your very light..
Tina… please forgive me… you always meant so so much to me. I want us to talk about fashion and vintage and art like we always did back in Mrs Silks.

eleanorerelieva

February 10, 2022 @
5:36 pm

Tina, I enjoyed our talks in both the old Mrs Silks and the new and you mean so so much to me. Please forgive me. I really wish we can speak about art and fashion again.

Penny

January 10, 2022 @
10:04 am

Yes it would be lovely to just chat with like minded

Kim McBride

September 23, 2021 @
11:32 pm

I remember I introduced Mrs.Silk that I was a sissy baby girl that liked to wear cloth diapers and plastic pants and little girls baby doll dresses and me being in diapers was excipted.

Emma Richards

March 6, 2021 @
3:41 pm

Where to go to chat now is the question I really miss the site and the people.

Emma

January 11, 2021 @
11:21 am

Love this
Loved the site back in the day
My girlfriend at the time caught me on mrs silk site one night as she got up to get a drink.
Said nothing to me a few weeks later i opened up my birthday presents
And first present killer heels
She said once i had learned to walk in them in the next couple of hours i could open the rest of my presents i was embarrassed at first but after her encouraging me that morning i was walking along and got to open the rest of my presents what a day that was and had 7 wonderful year of crossdressing with her buying me stuff al the time
And for me it was all down to Mrs silk
With out that site it would never have happened

melodyinsights

January 11, 2021 @
1:20 pm

Thank you for commenting and telling your tale of the positive effects Mrs Silk had on so many people. It’s hard these days to get across how unique the site was at the time. It enabled so many of us to explore what we might be and to find like minded souls along the way. That you had a girlfriend who was able to suspend judgement and be part of it is wonderful – there will have been a lot of jealous subs on the site wanting just that.

Jo

November 22, 2020 @
7:31 am

And yes Ms Victoria was Mrs Silks real daughter

Jo

November 22, 2020 @
7:24 am

For anyone interested Victoria Catherine Maclean i.e Ms Victoria can be found on face book

Jo

November 22, 2020 @
7:19 am

Victoria’s last name was McLean so either not her daughter or married perhaps

andy

November 21, 2020 @
12:51 pm

So good to see some of the names that i remember. I was in and out of the chat there from about 97 until it closed. I definitely spoke to you a few tines tian, and spent a lot of time with Lovely Old Karen too. Never managed to hang on to anyones contact details, though I would love to be in touch with a lot of people. Hope you are well – andy

Louise Honey

March 10, 2020 @
1:54 pm

Wowzers! What a great thread. Mrs Silk opened the door for me in every sense. You described the nervousness of joining the chat room for the first time in 1998 and finding sooooo many people just like me…it sounds so surreal in this data rich, media-frenzied age, but it was probably one of the most exciting times of my life.
I later became a “Girl of the Month” on the site (I didn’t need to do much more than correspond with Victoria -was she really Mrs Silks’ daughter?- and email and image), but I remember the whole site with such affection.
I’m now fully trans, going to bars, restaurants, pubs, theatres. I model. I write for Transliving. I do lots of things today that was simply unthinkable back in 1998.
Thank you, Mrs Silk. A pioneer is a great description for you, and for your site.
It was one small step for me. But it was a pleasingly toweringly heeled leap for Transgenderism.
(PS: I am soooo interested in the back story to this site! Do please email me directly, message me on Instagram, or add more to this thread! Who ran it? What happened immediately before and after Mrs Silks’ passing? Did those parties really happen? What happened to Nyssa and Jane? Where is Victoria? Can I ask any more questions?…..probably! 🙂 ) xxx

melodyinsights

March 13, 2020 @
8:14 am

Thank you Louise. Our time in Mrs Silks definitely overlapped.
I’m not as out as you are, tho where I am at could not have happened without the Silks experience. The place was wonderfully chaotic and I think that for me being able to have silly fun with like minded people helped me to deal with the personal stigma and then have the courage to find people outside that environment who encourage melody to be who she is and continue to grow.
The parties definitely happened, but as for your other questions I faded out of the site within a couple of years of Mrs Silks’ death. The place became far too rigid and controlled for many who had been there from the early days. My last experience was in logging in for the first time in over a year and immediately being kicked out by a mod for ‘being a known trouble-maker’. I never bothered going back.
Thank you so much for reading and commenting 🌹🌹

jacqui

February 7, 2020 @
3:55 am

To add my voice (belatedly) to the chorus of praise for Mrs Silk’s room:
I first learned of Mrs Silk back around 2007 via another TV chatroom and went in to give it try. Maybe it was due to my inexperience or just timing but over a few visits there seemed to be quite a few strange characters with all sorts of (to me) OTT interests – I won’t go into detail about that. I visited the room a few times more over the years (with diff. names) and it seemed somewhat ‘hit-and-miss’…you could sometimes have chat with someone about dressing preferences, RL experiences etc. and fun with admirers, but there could also be occasional ‘p1ss-takers’ seemingly on a ‘let’s wind up the trannies’ sort of mission which spoiled things although I admit I may have been a bit ‘over-sensitised’ about such occasional encounters and making too much of it. Again, it may have been more about timing? I never became a ‘regular’ there, just went in every blue moon or so as the fancy took me and yes TBH in later years (up to my last visit about early 2018) it seemed better: fun RP with admirers or lifestyle chat with other TVs/TSes. My enduring sentiment is one of deep regret that Mrs Silk’s room is now gone; whatever my earlier reservations I accept that it was a great and in fact unique place for TG folk of all denominations to chat and have fun.

Liam

January 10, 2020 @
4:39 pm

I remember my first night online and searched for french maids and her site popped up…wow it blew me away, this would have been 96-97ish and her site was new, i bought all her videos, magazines and even a custom maid blouse. I paid to visit several times with Mrs Silk twice and Mistress Maria once..and appeared on her site transformed as “Smart Tart Vicky” i was a fully paid up member for the early years and the excitement of an update was unreal. I had always loved satin blouses and suddenly i found this bossy woman who would wear satin and dress me…it was what I was looking for before i even knew it. Some of my happiest days in my mid twenties, on a PC downstairs while my partner slept upstairs…hiding my “clothes” in the loft until i opened up to my wife and she was ok with it! The chat room was unreal, especially when there was a scheduled time for Mrs Silk and Maria to appear, they moved to avatar based chat from memory where the image would move around the rooms. Very happy times and had a huge influence on me and understanding my kink and introducing me to new ones..She was an innovator in the online world as she been with video and print before hand. I miss my tips to Dane Courts Gardens, Broadstairs to see the fantasy on the site was real, the swimming pool, the bar the bed room and the wardobes full of satin, silk and organza. She invested in quality compared to the cheap imitators that popped up. I miss her and thank her…she also looked stunning every time i saw her!

jami

December 20, 2019 @
9:33 pm

I use to chat in yahoo before it closed and I end up in Silk. I knew about her d
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