RANSVESTIA

"Here," she said, "if there's anything you might be curious about that isn't here, I can't imagine what it'd be. I've spent nearly three hun- dred dollars."

where she had insisted and dumped them on the bed.

She carried them into the guest room that I sleep until all this was over

I was overwhelmed. It was like being a child at Christmas — bags, boxes large and small dumped on the bed and falling on the floor. Almost in a state of shock, I began to pick them up and arrange them on the bed. I turned to speak to her, but she had gone. I followed her to her bedroom.

"Jesus, you shouldn't have done that," I told her.

"Oh?"

"I mean

"Go try them on. I'm going to have a bath."

Rather sheepishly, I returned to the guest room.

She had gone mad. There were shoes, skirts, dresses, bras, girdles, stockings, panties, slips, petticoats, blouses, and makeup. Hungrily, I closed the door and started trying them on. It was on, then off, then on with something else. In a few minutes I had been through them all. I sorted them out, making stacks of panties, slips, blouses. I went through them again, removing the tags and cramming the wrappings into a single bag. I hung the dresses in the closet an orange one with a pleated skirt, a white one of a glossy material that flowed as if it were wet, a sheer one with colored flowers embroidered all over it, a black one with a satin top and a chiffon skirt, a yellow one of real silk. I marveled at them mine hanging soft and ready in a row. I added the skirts to the row, a blue pleated one, a soft woolen plaid, a green cotton, and then the blouses, a beige one, one of white satin, a sheer one with tucks, a sheer black one with a taffeta lining. They filled the closet with softness and excitement.

I opened a drawer and made it my lingerie drawer. I piled the panties in it one by one, pink, blue, beige, black with pink ribbons threaded around the legs and tied in bows at the hips, plain white. I folded the bras and arranged them in a row, five of them, one to match each color. And the girdles, two of them, both white, but with lots of

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