Transvestia

except those of us who are lucky to have a 24" waist.. well, not exactly 24"..more like 25"...or perhaps a 28"...(I'll settle right there and refuse to be budged one more inch). So we go out and buy a shift....and then we take a look in the mirror and we remove it fast- er than it took us to put it on.... shifts indeed! Broad shoulders to begin with, and then a straight line down to the knees.....not even a hint of a waistline...and the TV looks more mammoth than he deserves to look, not even a baby mammoth... The answer is in the good old waist cincher... You can't breathe, you say? Who cares? You look better and that's what counts.. tighter tighter.. that's it. And another thing, you've probably noticed those fashion articles that are forecasting short- er and shorter skirts. That's tough for a lot of us (except for those of us of course who just happen to have a pretty good pair of gams). Don't pay attention to the words in parenthesis... I'm just taking advantage of this column ..if nobody praises my gams... I'd be an idiot if I didn't sneak a bit of self-praise. When you print something somehow it seems more impressive and feels more like a true fact... As for the elevated hems we are in trouble. Not even GGs can boast of perfect knees, with notable exceptions of course... so in order to hide the knees we have to stay with last year's lower hems... up to now it's not so bad, but if the forecasts prove to be right and the hem ends above the knee...we are going to look positive- ly dowdy! What's got me baffled though is the new top- less bathing suits...if that is followed by topless dresses and gowns, I'm afraid we'll have witnessed the callapse of transvestism. Unless of course you TV chemists come up with that absolutely undetectable breast that looks and feels like the real thing. We've got to do something about this insidious fashion threat... I suggest we send a plea to those fashion designers... what would become of our falsies and balloons with jelly and other TV secrets? On the other hand, I think the GGs themselves will be our best allies.... A good many of them have the very best reasons in the world to reject such outrageous fashion, or would they? Topless bathing suits indeed! Why, that's what we've been wearing most of our lives!!! Can any one of us say that they are pretty?....

And to close....bits of gossip that have come my way from various sources...one of our best TV friends came