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I'm sure that pro entertainers are more or less expected to wear evening gowns but how many of us are pros? In addition as Jo-Anne said--how many women really go out frequently in full length dresses? So maybe some do more than the ones I know, but do they go shopping that way? If you can't walk down the street of a moderate sized city at 2:30 in the afternoon in clothes that attract attention only for their good taste, then you're adding something to TV which I don't feel belongs. This applies to the "French Maid" bit too. Do you really seriously

know of anyone who has such a real maid who dresses as so often described for her daily work. Maids as such are not easily found, much less "French" ones who wear spike heels, black satin dresses, tight, short, and very decol- lete I feel true TV apparel is for real, every day use Sweaters, blouses, skirts, day and cocktail dresses, plain heels and even flats (ugh) should be in the wardrobe. What's wrong with the standard American "uniform" of blouse skirt and heels? You can't camouflage so much that way, but thats the way most women dress?

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In the Lukianowicz medical article I must arise with you relative to the "caricature" bit Actually medicine knows nothing of true TVism and he is just babbling old bar tales (The writer of this letter is an M. D. - Ed ) I personally am enough of a"caricature" to have riden on the buses and trolleys in Denver, Minneapolis, Philadel- phia, Cincinnati and Boston. I have been (perhaps not wisely in powder rooms of theaters and of the Penn R R. station. I've hailed and ridden in taxicabs of those cities and driven a car in several of them I spent some time in the lobby of the Ritz hotel in Boston some years ago while stopping there. Well, "caricature" or not no- one stopped me and if anyone thought I was not a real wo- man no one said so out loud or did anything about it other than a couple of wolf whistles and a truck driver who pul- led up and asked me to drive to New York with him.

I corresponded for several years (never met person- ally) with a gal who did pro dancing at private clubs un- der the name of Bobby Lindie--there were some pictures. of