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I REMEMBER....

Perhaps among the subscribers to TRANSVESTIA may be a few who recall the "turn of the century" period when small boys were dressed as littlegirls until they reached the age of four or five and many even a little older! Perhaps too, there may be some who, like myself, were schooled at home by a govern- ess and continued in pretty frocks and undies until eight or nine. If so, my recollections will probab- ly recall those happier days to them.

My father, being much too engrossed in his busin- ess ventures to pay more than scant attention to his small son, gave in to my beloved mother's pleas that it would do no harm to keep me petticaated "just a little longer". My beloved mother was a very beauti- ful woman, whose sole interests in life were her home, her friends, her teas, her modiste, her corsetiere and her lovely little son-daughter. This was the en- vironment in which I grew up....until exiled to a boarding school at the age of twelve.

The boarding school which I attended was located in a semi-secluded area, and, as there were no young ladies of proper social standing to provide partners at the weekly dancing class, the Headmaster's good wife remedied this situation in a somewhat unique fash- ion. At the beginning of the fall term, she was accus- tomed to select a number of First Formers whom she con- sidered would make attractive young ladies for the class- es. I happened to be one of those selected, and, not wishing that my secret desires become known to my chums, I pretended to protest no end once I had learned what was in store for me. Of course, there was nothing I wanted more, for I had long since come to adore the caress of soft silk against my person and found ecstasy in the frou-frouing of my skirts. Needless to say my protests availed me nothing and I joined the rest.

Three afternoons each week, we would be called in from the playing field to report to a room in the main house. There, we would be taken inhand by school maids disrobed, and then dressed in pretty party frocks.

Madame herself, being a confirmed tight-lacer, insisted