She’s a real Monet (Picture: Incredible Features / Barcroft Media)

Anyone fancy slipping into something a little less comfortable?

Here at Metro.co.uk few things surprise us any more, but we have to admit, we did raise an eyebrow when we stumbled across 70-year-old Roby.

You see Roby – a divorced real estate agent with two daughters – likes to dress up as a woman.

So far, so meh. Except that unlike your bog standard cross-dresser, Roby likes to dress up as a ‘living doll’ by wearing full-length plastic bodysuits.


In the flesh (Picture: Incredible Features / Barcroft Media)

Talking to Incredible Features, Roby explained that part of the appeal with the suits are the quite frankly terrifying rubber masks: ‘If I go out in the exact same outfit without the mask, people will laugh and point and make jokes…the same outfit, now I’m wearing a mask, nobody says a word, they get out of the way, they have this worried look on their face. It’s an entirely different feeling.’



And Roby’s not alone. FemSkin – the US-based company who make the suits – have 400,000 customers internationally.

Adam Ramos (who inherited the company from his father) and one of the FemSkins. Fleshy (Picture: Incredible Features / Barcroft Media)

And as you can imagine, these things aren’t cheap. Their current model, The Seamless FemSkin III will set you back $850 (around £500).

But forget the big questions, such as what makes a grown man want to dress up as a doll in the first place (for the record, Roby says: ‘My motivation for doing this is a mystery to everyone, including me. One day something just clicked on’).

What we really want to know is, why don’t the suits have arms?

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