Transvestia

and put on the foundation first. It hooks up the side. Then the shoe and stocking. I'd better pitch in and help you after that. You have to learn to dress as a woman does now."

Grace left the room and I stood surveying my ward- robe. I was dying to put them on, but felt reluctant for some queer reason. Slowly I unbuttoned my shirt, took off my trousers, shoes and underwear. I picked up the corset slipped into it and started on the hooks and eyes. After a struggle I got it hooked from bottom to top. It seemed somewhat loose and uncomfortable. I slid the stocking on and laced the oxford. It fitted beautifully, soft and snug. I called to Grace. She came in and looked

me over.

"Well, it's a start, but your stocking seam is crooked. wouldn't you know it?" She observed. "Turn around, dear I've got to pull up the laces on this foundation to give you a more feminine appearance. It will give you a waist line. We'll pad the hips after I see how your foot lays under the corset. Grace's ingenuity was put to the test but when she finished we felt she had a 'marketable pro- duct'....me... Verna... a fem meman.

"Stand with your knee on the bed so I can check your 'stump', she directed, and had me take the crutches and walk around the room as she sized up her handiwork. "Not bad", she mused. How does it feel?"

"Those stays and laces in the back of the corset kind of hurt my foot, otherwise it isn't bad. Feel nice. I like these clothes very much." With surgicall felt she padded the foot and hips for greater comfort and shape.

"There, now.

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Miss Amputee", she smiled. "Put on the bloomers and let's have a gander. This I did and we went into the front room. The Duchess plunked into a big chair. "OK...Verna. Leave us get on with our hoofing lessons. Walk back and forth from the kitchen to the bed- room a couple of times so I can check your stride and posture.

Thus went my education for the next two weeks in the arts of walking, sitting, rising properly and sessions on the solo-crutch. Make-up, poise, gestures, feminine