TRANSVESTIA

Before I do another thing I wash, shave, dress and make up. Then, in a skirt and blouse, and wearing no girdle, just panty hose and panties, I cook my breakfast. When the paper comes I go to the front door and re- trieve it from the step and relax pleasantly with my coffee and the latest goings-on in the world.

Like any good housewife, I don't laze around too much but get right at the business of doing dishes, making the bed, sweeping, dusting, and perhaps running some clothes through the washer and drier and plan- ning to do the ironing later in the day. In the middle of the morning I stop for coffee and a cigarette (my brother smokes a pipe) and generally just enjoy being me.

After I have lunch and cleaned up. I slip into my nightie again for a nap, for my nights are usually late. When I get up from the nap, I bathe, shave again, and slip into an afternoon outfit, something soft and frilly but practical. This time I wear a pantie girdle and have a pair of low heeled pumps that I slip on.

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The afternoon has its own things to do letters, reading and then some of the very feminine things that have been left over from the morn- ing ironing, sewing, and, if there is time, do some knitting on the bed jacket I am making.

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Before dinner is the cocktail hour. Gathering the evening paper be- side me, I sit with a martini and relax from the day. This is a beautiful time as I cross my nylon-clad legs and pull slowly on a very dry drink.

Dinner is lonely but always by candelight and wearing a dinner dress that falls to my ankles. I insist on it. With fine china, sterling silver and linen napkins, I eat a meal truly set for a princess. I linger over it, savor- ing each sip of wine with a sensitive tongue.

After expresso and brandy in the living room, I change my clothes and do the dishes a chore which no girl can escape.

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I don't mind, though, because it preludes the evening and for this I go all out.

The preparations for the evening are fun themselves, because it means clean clothes, a new make-up, and high style for the evening's escapades. It takes me two hours to get ready but when I am done no sister would do anything but compliment me. And then it's off for an

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