if you saw how big the difference can be between the women at the ban- quet and the same persons now as men preparing to drive home.

And in the car on the road in the afternoon most of them are already thinking about and planning for the next meeting.

Footnote: The address for FPE, the organization for heterosexual transvestites, is Box 4041, Norrkoping 4, Sweden.

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Signs of the

Times Bu

NEW

PANTS vs. SKIRTS

or WHO'S AN FP

It occurred to me last night when I was assembling the pics to be used in this issue and others, what a change has come over the FP scene in the last four years. Now nearly every FP has one or more pantsuits in her wardrobe and a great many of you have boots. I have 4 of the former but only rain-snow boots. I'm not complaining or accusing, I just think it is amusing to recall the number of letters and stories I've read in my time wherein the FP declaimed about the discomfort, tightness, weight of pants and the softness, freedom, lightness, coolness, etc. of slips and dresses. And of course there were the usual rhapsodies about stilt heels, gracefullness, the light weight of women's shoes and all that. And now look at you. In pants again and wearing boots which, while made of light weight materials, are still heavier and hotter by far than the delicate hi- heeled slippers you used to wear.

Is there a communication gap, a credibility gap here somewhere? Can we no longer believe those poetical and rhapsodical effusions about skirts, heels, cool slips, lacy blouses, etc? etc? What is the world coming to anyway, are we backsliders, FPs in reverse or what?

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