Transvestia

Parties are a wonderful hunting preserve for a gossip columnist. You see TV's in action, you hear them talk and all the time you are gathering tid- bits for a future column. It usually gives me a thrill when something I said in this column has hit home. For instance. I complained some time ago about TV's who wear lingerie under their male uni- form (this I did not criticize) but go one step too far in filling the bra with falsies so that the bust is quite prominent under their shirt. Ugh! At Kathey's party a very dear friend of mine who hap- pens to enjoy the above concoction approached me with a hurt look under his mascara...."did you have me in mind when you wrote that, Sue?" Of course I put on an innocent act: "how can you think such a thing, darling!" I don't think she believed me. Fortunately we are still friends because she knows I am right in my criticism. She knows she is doing wrong but she can't help it. We might perhaps for- give her if we consider that the job "he" has pre- vents her from being herself for long periods of time and when she gets home, she could care less as to what the neighbors may think and lets her hair down no matter what.

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At a party one can also appreciate the full impact of certain fashions. For instance: the tent style. It does absolutely nothing for most TV's. It makes them look twice as big as they are. that's saying plently. And then we have the boots! Forget them! A TV in boots somehow always manages to look like a storm trooper who's being punished with KP duty. Unless your foot size is around 7 or 8, boots bring forth the clomp-clomp of hidden mas- culinity, particularly with TV's who don't walk girlishly even on pencil thin high heels. If boots must be worn, let's try to buy the slender, tight fitting ones with a bit of a heel.

I was also pleased to obtain some favorable re- The most

actions regarding my "voice" campaign. common objection is "but I feel like an idiot trying

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