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perpetual and pervasive,
says Bomas.
“Everything just feels
wrong,”
Bomas ex-
plains.
In the
majority
of gender
dysphor-
ic patients
Bomas
has coun-
seled, Bo-
mas says
they re-
port having “known ear-
ly in childhood that they
were born in the ‘wrong’
body.”
Before seeking thera-
py, these folks often try
to “deny” or “normalize”
their inner turmoil by do-
ing what society expects
of them — many times
in roles that accentuate
their biological sex.
“In this sense, they’re
trying to ‘master the con-
flict,’” says Bomas.
Of course, every per-
son dealing with gen-
der dysphoria travels a
unique path — hopeful-
ly toward self-discovery
and, ultimately, self-ac-
ceptance.
Societal and famil-
ial acceptance is a cru-
cial part of that journey,
so Bomas urges, “Don’t
judge a person who is
transgender.”
Medical intervention
For those with the fi-
nancial means, desire —
and written approval of
a trained clinical psycho-
therapist — to medically
shift their gender identi-
ty, today’s hormone and
surgery treatments are
far more advanced than
they were when Rich-
ards’ transitioned.
For instance, at Jacob-
son and Mardirossian
Plastic Surgery Center for
Excellence in Jupiter, Dr.
Vartan Mardirossian, an
accomplished head and
neck surgeon, is one of
the world’s leading prac-
titioners in the emerging
field of facial feminiza-
tion surgery (FFS).
“FFS is a constellation
of procedures,” explains
Mardiros-
sian. “Ev-
erything
from
non-sur-
gical skin
and lip re-
juvena-
tion to
eye and
brow lifts
to con-
touring and reshaping
of the forehead, cheeks,
mandible, nose and tra-
chea.”
Mardirossian credits
the years he spent train-
ing in Boston with FFS pi-
oneer Dr. Jeffrey Spie-
gel for giving him the in-
sight and skills to create
feminized features that
look natural — and will
age grace-
fully.
His FFS
patients
come
from all
over the
globe
and, while
each case
is unique,
Mardirossian notes they
all have one thing in com-
mon: “They’ve been on
their journey for a long
time.”
Another local physi-
cian who helps transgen-
ders undergo the male-
to-female transformation
is Boca Raton hair resto-
ration specialist Dr. Alan
Bauman of the Bauman
Medical Group.
“Because most patients
undergoing a male-to-fe-
male transition are of an
age where male pattern
hair loss and recession
of the hairline is likely to
have already occurred,
one of the important cos-
metic steps is the femi-
nization of the hairline
through hair transplant
surgery,” says Bauman.
A quick online perusal
of Jenner photos through
the decades shows that,
undoubtedly, the now-
thrice-divorced father of
six has had his hairline
lowered and facial fea-
tures feminized.As for
what else he’s had done —
or plans to do — we’ll all
find out Friday night.
sdorfman@pbpost.com
Jenner
continued from D1
Kristen
Bomas
Dr. Vartan
Mardirossian
Dr. Alan
Bauman
The cult of Lilly
ByJanTuckwood
Palm Beach Post StaffWriter
Target sold out of its
Lilly Pulitzer for Target
togs in record time Sun-
day — but not just be-
cause they’re cute, color-
ful and cheap.
They flew out the
stores and blew up the
website because the icon-
ic Palm Beach brand is
Society’s Tribal Uniform,
a style security blanket.
Don’t know what to
wear to that pool party at
the home of your well-to-
do friends? Put on a Lilly.
Having a casual break-
fast at Testa’s in Palm
Beach? Slip on a Lilly.
Afraid of being judged
at your friend’s pri-
vate club? Wear Lilly —
and you’ll blend right in
with those women who
are richer than you but
just as insecure when it
comes to clothes.
A colorful Lilly dress
or tunic marks a woman
as upper-middle-class as
certainly as tattoos and
piercings identify rebels.
Once, I was invited
to a private club in Gulf
Stream for dinner. My
date suggested I wear Lil-
ly Pulitzer.
I owned no Lilly Pu-
litzer — and didn’t iden-
tify with that pink-and-
green tribe anyway — so
I wore a black-and-white
dress. But I realized that
Lilly is not just the most
Palm Beach of looks. It is
also a code of confidence
for anyone who might
feel too “other side of the
bridge.”
There’s a sociology to
style. What tribe do you
want to look like you be-
long to?
Lilly Pulitzer herself
was just trying to cov-
er up orange-juice stains
she got while working
the Pulitzer family fruit
stand when she came up
with the idea of making
the tropical-print shifts
in 1959.
Once Jackie Kennedy
slipped on a Lilly dress in
the ’60s, she helped en-
force the code. So did
Rockefellers and Whit-
neys.
Today, Lilly ladies of-
ten give each other a
wink and a nod.
“It’s the nod to Palm
Beach,” says Nancy
Noonan, a local real-es-
tate agent and artist who
once owned 250 vintage
Lilly Pulitzer garments. “I
wore a Lilly caftan to Tes-
ta’s for brunch Sunday
and there were two oth-
er ladies there in bright,
happy tunics, and they
gave me a little nod.”
Noonan spotted sever-
al Palm Beach women in
the line at Target on Sun-
day morning.
One mom I know man-
aged to snag dresses for
her daughter in every
size she’ll need for the
next five years. She spent
$250 — and figures she
saved a thousand dollars
by getting the Lilly dress-
es at Target and not at au-
thentic Lilly locations.
Not all Lilly is “The Lil-
ly,” Noonan says. The
original, pre-1984 Pulit-
zer dresses say “The Lil-
ly” on the tags. Later
dresses, made by a licens-
ing company, say “Lil-
ly Pulitzer Inc.” And now
there’s “Lilly Pulitzer for
Target.”
In the 1960s and 1970s,
the original Lilly brand
had sales of more than
$15 million. It now has
annual net sales of more
than $122 million, ac-
cording to The New York
Times. Lilly Pulitzer died
in Palm Beach in 2013 at
81.
Today, the company
headquarters is in the
very un-Palm-Beachy
King of Prussia, Pa. — but
the headquarters is paint-
ed pink in an homage to
Lilly’s belief that a lit-
tle pink brings cheer and
happiness. The folks at
Lilly Inc. are clearly sav-
vy retailers. They adver-
tised a “mystery gift with
any purchase on April 19
and 20,” trying to lure
customers who may have
been disappointed if they
couldn’t snag a Lilly from
Target.
Target has done sever-
al promotions with de-
signers in the past few
years — but none hit an
aspirational nerve quite
like Lilly. That’s probably
because Lilly is more un-
derstandable than, say,
Missoni, the high-fashion
Italian line that launched
Target’s foray into de-
signer lines for the mass
market.
Real Lilly shift dresses
at lillypulitzer.com cost
around $200 — not out
of grasp for society wan-
nabes.
Of course, Target’s Lil-
ly shifts cost $38 — until
they were marked up for
three times that price on
eBay.
That’s still a small price
to pay to belong to a style
tribe.
And it is a tribe, as
Noonan will attest.
“Lilly is about being
free, casual, comfortable
and colorful. You don’t
have to dress up a Lilly
... the dress does that for
you,” she says. “It makes
women feel comfort-
able.”
Unless, perhaps,
you’re on a subway in the
big city.
Noonan wore a Lilly
dress in New York City 20
years ago, “and people
looked at me like I had
three heads. That wasn’t
their uniform.”
jtuckwood@pbpost.com
Twitter: @jantuckwood
Why buying a Lilly Pulitzer shift dress is like buying confidence.
FASHION Nancy
Noonan of
West Palm
Beach wears
a vintage
Lilly caftan
to Testa’s in
Palm Beach.
Her Lilly is
permanent
press, a
blend of poly
and cotton.
CONTRIBUTED
BY NANCY
NOONAN
Kathy Fay (standing at left) provided this photo of herself
and her sister, Sally, coloring Easter eggs with Caroline,
JohnJohn and Jackie Kennedy at the Kennedys’Palm Beach
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