16-SANDY THOMAS ADV.

P.O. Box 2309, "Which do you like best?" I demanded, standing before her in the blue shirtwaist dress.

"I don't know"

"Well, I like them both," she replied, "you can keep both of them," she assured me. "Keep the one you have on now for the rest of the day," she suggested.

I was delighted, and only too glad to do so. It seemed to both of us that my black patent leather pumps were perfect with both dresses.

Needless to say that from that time on I always changed from my uniform into one or the other of my two lovely dresses just as soon as I finished my housework on Saturday, and again on Sunday.

I much preferred to stay at home on weekend, so I could wear one or the other of my two beautiful dresses. After a few weeks I could see that Mary wanted to go out to dinner in the evening, so again we began to go out on Saturday night.

Many have asked me----how could I possible allow my wife to see me in such an unmanly situation? Well, Mary never gave me the slightest impression that she was judging me. On the contrary, it was fun and enhanced the 'closeness' us. It was our 'little' secret.'

One evening Mary said: "Darling, Penny has invited us over to her house for cocktails and dinner this Saturday, would you like to go?"

Penny was Mary's younger sister who lived on the other side of town. She had been a high-fashion model before her brief marriage, and had been left a widow with a little girl about 2-1/2 and a little boy about a year old.

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The next Saturday afternoon after I had finished the house work, and was about to change from my uniform to go over to Penny's house, Mary came into the bedroom where I was changing my clothes.

"Why don't you wear your lovely sheath tonight?" she asked, "You would like to, now wouldn't you?"

"No way," I replied, "I'd be embarrassed to death. Penny would laugh me out of her house." "No, she will say you look wonderful in it," Mary assured me; "She helped me pick it out."

"Did she know you were buying it for me?" I exclaimed.

"Of course, Silly!" she replied, "and she knows you wear it around the house. I don't have anything to hide from her, besides she is anxious to see how you look in it."

Reluctantly, I put on my sheath, did my nails, put on makeup, and even earrings. Mary told me that I should try to look as down to 'convincing' as possible, tying a scarf turban around my head.

"Convincing!" I exhaled. So far I had never tried to 'act' like a female----I had just worn my unusual comfortable clothes.

With one of Mary's light top-coats, and a scarf over my hair, we started out on the long trip across town to Penny's house. We arrived safely and without incident. Penny welcomed us, and particularly welcomed me.

"Why, Gene, how lovely and sweet you look!" she exclaimed. "He could go anywhere with a little practice."

I flushed at the comment, having second thoughts about all this.