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Dear Susanna

So you have been deliberately controversial and have had little reaction? Well after reading your article in TVia #42 I have to disagree with some of your views, particularly on capris and slacks. I know that if I had to wear my brothers clod-hopper shoes and my stretch slacks I would not accomplish anything near a graceful feminine walk, but I do walk and feel differently in my slacks and flats, and you better believe it. So I for one am keeping my slacks (all three pair). On the question of torreador pants, pedal pushers or knee- length shorts, I certainly agree with you, they look awful. My pet aversion is Bermuda shorts, and I don't think they look any better on smoothly shaven legs than on hairy ones.

All of this is, of course, opinion and don't think for a minute that I only wear slacks to hang onto my masculine image. I really feel very fem- inine in them, and this is important, yet I have some of the prettiest dresses you could want and love them all.

I look at it this way, if the GG's can wear trousers I can wear dresses. Moreover, slacks and capris' are accepted items of feminine apparel and as such I accept them, and I don't think they look as bad on us as you seem to think they do. A re- cent fashion article in the Baltimore Sun discussed mini-this and mini-that concluded with this, "the death knell for skirts has been sounded by fashion designers. Its survivor left to cover as adequate- ly as possible is the long blouse." I am not using this to back up my stand on capris and slacks, be- cause I hope skirts are here to stay!

So you have one gal's opinion, hope that you have mini more.

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Wilda 20-Q-1