My Summer In Petticoats

by Ruth (9-C-2 FPE)

I enjoyed a lovely summer in petticoats after school had closed at the end of my second, or sophomore year in high school, which I would like to tell you about. I had started wearing long trousers when I entered high school about two years earlier, and was approaching my sixteenth birthday. My wonderful summer in petticoats came about as a result of an accident.

Several years before, I had discovered a girl's dress, and a slip and panties among some old clothes stuck away in a closet in my home, and tried them on. I need not tell you of the del- icious feeling I experienced at that time, I am sure. Further search had revealed a 'panty-waist, to which the panties were buttoned, and another slip, and a blue gingham dress, which soon became my favorite. A pair of Mother's shoes and stockings com- pleted my outfit, and I began to dress in my feminine outfits every time Mother left the house for any length of time. Mother always went shopping at least twice a week, and I was of course familiar with her shopping days, and the length of time she was away from the house on these occasions, so that I was always home on her shopping days, and as soon as she left the house, I hurr- iedly dressed in one or the other of the two dresses I had found. As I have said, one was a blue gingham dress with lace-trimmed puff sleeves, and the other was a white party dress, but both

a little small for me, and, I regretfully realized, neither had been ironed, and both were quite wrinkled as would be ex- pected considering where I had found them. The panties and the slips were both white cotton, with a pretty ruffle at the hem of the slips and at the leg of the panties. I always remained dress- ed about two hours, allowing plenty of time to change back into my boy's clothes before Mother returned.

About a month before school closed Mother went on one of her customary Saturday morning shopping trips, and as usual, I quick- ly went to put on one of my dresses. I will never forget. That morning I had put on my blue gingham dress, and had put on Moth- er's shoes and stockings, and was just admiring myself in the

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