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"Power of Fashion

by Erna (FD-J-1) FPE

Most FPs, I think, find a special joy in following the fashion. It is wonderful to know that the clothes you are wearing at the moment are precisely the same style, cut and color as the clothes worn by the girls on the street, in the office, at a party, in the theatre etc. If we are out and see a girl wearing one or more pieces of feminine clothing that we also have at home, our eagerness to come home and dress up is increased immensely.

Fashion is followed by the GGs and consequently also by us, perhaps with the moderation that we preferably will choose the most feminine things in the fashion and try to avoid the socalled masculine tendencies that now and then turn up in women fashions (masculine slacks, pea-jackets etc. etc.) In this way we may say that Femme Fashion will be the most feminine part of women's fashions. The GGs have long understood the enjoyment of this social phenomenon and find exquisite satifaction in submitting to the dictate of Her Majesty, The Fashion. At first we perhaps find it strange that Fashion has such a power, but soon we begin to find that fashion is a wonderful thing, and we begin to feel the same feminine satisfaction as our genuine sister in wearing things of the latest fashion. We have then acquired a lovely and delicious feel- ing that normally only belongs to the GGs. Our feminine horizon has been enlarged. From then on

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