LETTER TO A TV FRIEND

I am so happy to have had the opportunity of meeting you and of finding our interests so similar and of hearing that there are many others like us who prefer feminine attire. I had begun to think that I was unique in my wish to wear corsets, high heels and soft silks, usually considered the perogative of the female, and now to learn that there are thousands with similar inclinat- ions has literally taken my breath away. What a pity it is that convention will not allow us to appear in public so attired, for we are thus compelled to wear our pretty things in privacy, or al- ternatively to assume a female role when venturing out.

From my teens, I had developed a secret passion for girl's clothes, and I had gradually accumulated quite a variety of things in my bedroom. One day my aunt, with whom I lived, found a pretty pair of knickers amongst my underwear, where I had hurriedly thrown them and forgotten about them. She questioned me closely, thinking I was having a liaison with some girl, and I confessed. She was at first shocked, but in a day or two, having seen me dress up as a girl, she sympathized with me and indulged my fancy by letting me continue to change over.

I used to enjoy private change-over evenings before a large mirror my aunt installed in my room, and I got many a thrill from tight-lacing and the use of high heels, long stockings, dainty lingerie and frocks, posing to my heart's content. I usually got quite excited and had to do something about it, but I must stress that this was not the aim and purpose in my dressing up--it was definitely to make myself as girlish as possible in every way. Hence, with my aunt's help, I went in for detail, using earrings, a blonde wig, false rubber breasts, makeup and the tightest of cor- sets. I even wore a tight silk swathe between my thigh-tops, so that the illusion was not spoilt when I was dressing or undressing or lounging in negligée.

My use of things feminine was extended to wearing corsets, stockings and pretty undies beneath my masculine outers, and it

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