FICTION

Dress Alikes

by Robin (5-B-24) FPE

Actually, in the beginning, it was her idea. It seemed to come as an inspiration to her and she often wondered why she hadn't thought of it before. It actually turned out to be a great deal of fun.

Thus it was that we adopted the practice of wearing matching clothes. Naturally it had to be pants and shirts since girls can get away with that sort of dress while the other way around is taboo to boys. I might also add that of course I didn't carry a purse. On the other hand we had matching sneakers and the over all effect was that we belonge to each other, as we truly did. It gave me a great deal of pleasure to note how much she enjoyed going out like this and noting how possessive she became.

I became so used to all of this that I had no objection to tinting our hair the same color which had a remarkable effect since her hair was a bit short and mine was long as is the fashion these days I thought to myself that except for certain obvious anatomical bulges on her part she could be taken for

me.

Even so, with certain loose fitting shirts, she might have been taken as a boy by the casual passer- by, but on closer scrutiny her feminine behaviour would have carried the day. Oddly it did not occur to me that if I were holding her purse the casual observer might have mistaken both of us as girls, this one of course being under-developed. It didn't occur to me, I suppose, since I was authentically attired as a boy (as she was) and all of this was an acceptable thing. In the end it was to become a natural thing for us to do, and we identified our-

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