Transvestia

Dear Virginia,

Just abut 2 months after we'd been married my husband brought home a pair of high heeled shoes and told me he intended to wear them. He couldn't under- stand why I didn't object and said he'd expected me to. I explained that my father always had an extra pair of rubber heels added to the leather heels on a new pair of shoes as the higher heels rested his feet. And besides that, I couldn't see anything wrong with it, so there was nothing to object to. Then I found my husband enjoyed wearing dresses along with his high heels and he was surprised again that I had no objections. After all, I know how nice it feels to dress up and if a man happens to enjoy it it seems more or less natural to do so.

But there were problems connected with cross- dressing that we had not considered. Problems such as the reason, what to tell the neighbors, and a myriad of others. So we decided to keep it a secret until we learned what we were dealing with and we set out to learn all we could on the subject. There followed a long series of experiences with friends and neighbors that might have been comical had we not been afraid of the consequences of discovery. And our researches had led us up all sorts of blind alleys. My husband paid big prices for books, mag- azines, etc. that purported to be informative but, when unwrapped, only added to the confusion. At times my husband even suggested divorce as out of the dilemma for me. I told him it was as much a part of my life as it was his and we would find the answer together.

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Then, several years ago, he found the answer to all our questions in the publication called TRANS- VESTIA. And new questions arose as the old ones were answered. Now he knew he was not alone, but where were the others? He was not "queer", as he'd thought he might be, but what would others think? Those and other questions have been answered since

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