built woman should aim for elegance and dignity. Ac- cordingly lots of my favorite dresses and blouses were thrown out and replaced by simple classic clothes with a good endurable fashion angle. This of course, is good business, as well as improved appearance, as one really good hundred dollars worth of the pretty-cheap things.

Similarily with shoes, she said, my heels were extravagantly high and would be worn only by "hoopies" She pointed out that the fashionable shoe for many years to some looked like having a narrow pointed toe and a stiletto heel of moderate height and made me buy a num- ber of pairs of very good ones right away. How right she was in this as in many other recommendations.

Where foundation garments were concerned, she was equally ruthless. "Unless a girdle on a waistnipper de- finitely corrects an important figure fault--don't wear it", was her judgement and I must admit that to wear thirty dollars worth of all that corsetry just to support your nylon hose dosen't make much sense any more than wearing a right waist- nipper under a shift dress does. And so, lots of my expensive, unneccessary lace and lastic glamorous pieces followed the frilly, fussy, follies into the limbo of forgotten things.

In one field of dress however; she did allow me un- restrained glamour-- my slumber wear and boudoir clothes. I was allowed, and even encouraged to build up a coll- ection of the most delicious nighties and negilgees in a variety of lingerie colors and which any movie star would be glad to own. Initially I suppose it was a gross ex- travagance, but now six years later, I still have them all, it dosen't seem so terrible.

As the months and years slipped by my feminine personality also developed under June"s guidance. All her suggestions I took. I took courses in needlework and dressmaking and also learned to play the guitar quite reasonably well. I had always been an enthusiastic cook and by the time I had mastered the art of flower arrante- ments and other domestic crafts, June was always ready to hand over to me complete responsibility for house- keeping in our pleasant and spacious apartment and I

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