RANSVESTIA

zipped the backzipper of the skirt without instruction. However, Mary did tell him to lift his skirt and pull the blouse even from underneath so that it would be much neater. This he did and then lowered the skirt to its normal position. He instructed himself to remember this little trick in neat dressing.

Liz had an extensive wardrobe, and there was no trouble in selecting a pair of blue square toed shoes of the latest style and in putting them on. He was aware of the delight of nylon slipping into leather and of the fact that his wife and he were just about the same size in shoes, at least, and of being grateful that the new styles did not have very high heels.

Mary then asked Harry to sit down and taking out a manicure set, quickly shaped his nails and applied red nail polish to his fingernails. "This will have to do for now, but we will get a professional job later. While you are waiting for the nails to dry, come with me while I get dressed. I just have to slip into my dress and I will be ready.

Harry seated himself on the chair near Mary's bed and crossed his nylon clad legs for the first time, very cognizant of the pleasant sensation of nylon against nylon on his legs but not aware that he had smoothed his skirt beneath him in typically feminine manner, before being seated. This gesture, however did not escape Mary.

"Harry, we can't be calling you Harry at the school, can we?" she inquired. Besides, the girls decided last night, that during this interlude, we would call you Harriet since it is close to your own name. Is that all right with you?”

"Guess so,” he replied as he watched Mary slip her dress over her head and as she smoothed it out so that it lay just right to her discerning eye.

During the short time that remained before they were to leave, Mary instructed him on how to walk, sit and stand, but after a few minutes of instruction, she found that this was not necessary as he seemed to have a retentive memory for the things he had observed during various school sessions, and he seemed to almost naturally put into use all that he had observed and heard during the past three years at the school.

Mary, then set the auburn wig on Harriet's head and touched it up slightly, remarking she had waited until the last minute as wearing it might be uncomfortable. Into the handbag that Mary had selected for Harriet, she poured in items that might be needed and Harry watched