Transvestia

has taken place in a relatively few years. As a re- sult of the changed fashions among teenagers it grad- ually began to percolate upward into the ranks of the young adults until within the last 2 years there has developed a whole new cult of hair styling for men. Most of you have seen pictures of men in hair nets sit- ting under dryers in what should be called men's beauty shops. (Personally, I wear reasonably long hair as Charles, but I can neither see the time nor the money involved in all this. Am I an obstruction to progress or am I just doing my bit as Virginia?)

Economics is always a strong factor waiting in the wings to see which way to make it's influence felt. When the pattern had been tentatively established and the pioneers had, by their ingenuity and suffering op- ened the door a crack, the big boys stepped in. Firms like Arden, Revlon, John Robert Powers and many others have, within the last year, enlarged their line of men's cosmetics greatly. They are daring to offer eye shad- ow, pale lipstick, facial packs, skin freshners etc. in addition to colognes, after shaves, deodorants, which are by now old standbys. The tide will run even taster as the big dollar boys get behind it.

Going back to the girls--after pants of one kind or another became so fashionable that you saw more of them on the streets than skirts, they had to go in for the female side of the Beattle age, the boots, then the leather, and I have even had a prediction fulfilled. little whips for women. Does this have a familiar ring? It should. This is the world of the "Dominant Female" and the subserviant male that the punishment, humiliation and masochiatic element goes for. Then, cosmetic-wise, the girls begin to stop wearing visibly colored lipsticks, etc. and go for the "natural look"- a pale washed out appearance of everything but the eyes. This last is necessary because it goes along with the dominating tigress image. The lips tend to run toward the masculine, but the made up eyes are nec- essary to maintain the ferocious, dominant female image. Hair is gradually falling out of the high piled beehive and big-headed, bird-brained look. The teen agers in

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