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with Tv's who in their eagerness to wear whatever girls are wearing these days - end up by sporting themselves in slacks. Their viewpoint is theoreti- cally logical. "Girls wear slacks I want to look and feel as a girl - so I'll wear them too.' Be it as it may, it turns out that every TV I've ever known miserably fails in his attempts to emulate a girl when encased in slacks, toreador pants, pedal-pushers or knee-length shorts. And what is the reason for this failure? There are two obvious ones. 1) that his male anatomy from the waist down keeps on looking male when draped in slacks. The TV just hasn't got the buttocks and thighs a GG has, which are so plain- ly in view when a GG wears pants. So, instead of camouflaging that part of his anatomy, all the TV does is to relinquish the opportunity to disguise it and simply underscores, to the eyes of the world, his masculinity in that area. Even hip and fanny padding fail in this case. The trouser leg, as it tapers down from the thigh inevitably shows the line where the padding ends and the skinnier area begins. Shorts are even worse. Since you can't wear stockings with them the plain horror of the knobby knees is left unmasked. Practically revolting, I say. 2) No matter how much my TV friends may believe that their walk is "just like a girl's", the truth of the matter is that very, very few capture the fluid female walk. This shortcoming is not too terribly obvious in skirts but the slacks-wearing TV ought to see himself strol- ling about in pants! The stupid garment just does not seem to impart even a tiny amount of femininity to his stride and so he goes strolling along, as manfully as he does when going to the office in the morning! In other words, he is willfully handicapp- ing himself. I say, why copy GG's in their attempts to imitate men...let's copy them at their best, not at their worst.

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I was asked by a GG at my office a few weeks ago. what I thought of the new look, meaning suits with pants for GG's. I thought for a moment, searching for the most brutal answer I could give, and this is

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