TRUE STORY

“OBTAINING A FEMININE WARDROBE”

Delores Bryant - 21-G-4 FPE-

One day I decided I'd like to purchase a new dress. I had walked by a small woman's dress shop run by three older women. I entered the shop about an hour before closing time and walked to the dress rack where one of the women asked if she could help me. I told her I was looking for a size 18 dress. She asked if the dress was for my wife and I informed her no, it was for myself, as I was going to a party as a woman. She said: "Oh, that's different," and proceeded to pick out various dresses from the rack to see what I liked.

I picked out five dresses and she led me to a dressing room with a door that locked, but with an opening above and below. I locked the door and tried on the dresses, picking out one I liked. When she asked how I was doing, I told her I had found one I liked and she said to come out so I could look in the larger mirror for a better look. I quickly step- ped out and stood in front of the mirror. The saleslady said that the dress fitted perfectly, so I purchased it and was about to leave when she asked if I needed any jewelry. I ended up buying a string of pearls also.

I returned to the shop about five times in the next two years and each time I purchased either a dress or blouse and was always waited on by the same saleslady.

On another occasion I went into a used clothing shop run by a middle aged woman and told her the same story as I had at the first dress shop. I picked out lovely blue suit which I tried on, but not before the sale- woman had asked me whether or not a size 18 would fit me. after I had the dress on, she asked if she could see how it looked on me, so I stepped out and showed her, along with a girlfriend she was talking to.

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