[Basically, I find it hard to believe that literal cross-dressing is common in Dara Happa]
Characteristics of Yelm are embodied in his regalia, which includes his clothing. Perhaps the idiom of Dara Happa is to say someone `puts on the clothing of X' when we would say `they behave like [the person or people] X'. Male `cross dressing' would then mean behaving like women (in some way). For example, being affectionate to your children, laughing in a public place, gossiping. Since the Dara Happan male ideal is impossible to attain (being Yelm), all Dara Happan males are riddled with shame for their feminine `sins', and moral reformers can harp on about `stamping out cross-dressing', although only a few men actually wear dresses.
On this reading, Dara Happans regard Orlanthi males as perverts!
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