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to put on other clothes so, as they said, they could compete with me. So we all piled into Helen's car and stopped at each girl's home in turn and went into each while the girl that lived there got dressed. This led to more compliments for me from other members of the families. We all helped each girl pick her clothes for the night and helped zip them up etc. Finally we were all ready so back we went to Helen's house for one more drink and then to town.

Just five pretty girls all dressed up in our finery, but they all said I had on the best outfit and would cap- ture more looks from others--which I did. When we got to the show we found that the main feature was nearly over and decided to wait until the intermission before getting seats. So we each bought a coke and retired to the ladies lounge; It was a lovely lounge with soft lights and lots of easy chairs. There were lots of glances from the other girls in the lounge. The other girls in our group were all dressed very nicely too, but I received most of the looks. I could see myself in one of the mirrors and I could see why--I actually looked pretty and it thrilled me thru and thru. Intermission finally came and we went into the show.

After the show we all went to a cocktail lounge for a drink and again I got a lot of stares. While there some men approached us and wanted to buy us drinks, but we all said no... we were five girls on a date and we had agreed --no men! When we left the lounge we had to walk a couple of blocks to the car and since all of us had on high heels we made a steady tatoo on the sidewalk...another thrill! Then Helen took each of the girls home and we returned to her house.

It was late so we went right to bed. I went to my room and regretfully took off my lovely outfit and donned a nice pink nightie. Laying down on the bed I relived the happenings of the preceeding few hours...what fun!

A few days later, while shopping down town I dropped in to a cocktail lounge for a refresher. I had on ordin- ary street clothes. Another girl came up to me and called me Alice and said, "Pardon me, but I was here the other night when you were here in your leapard outfit and I ad-