RANSVESTIA

interest accompanied the lengthening of the period of sobriety. On the other hand, my TV acquaintance has told me "she" has confidence in herself (has freedom from fear) when she is dressed. What she means is she feels "natural" expressing her feminine self that her TVism to her is her true being. Consequently, she can cope with her personal problems effectively when she is practicing TVism. She has, she said, found serentiy.

Still, she refused to believe that my "resignation" from TVism was anything but surrendering to guilt feelings. I can understand her feeling this way while accepting as valid her own acceptance of TVism as a natural expression of part of her being.

As for my view compared with the others, the situation amounts to the ancient saying: "One man's meat is another man's poison." Or, "To each his own," as the French phrase is translated. To evaluate my TV experience now would take a book. I can say, though, I now have a tolerance and understanding of TV's and, as a by-product, of humans in general that I would not have acquired had I not gone through alcoholism and TVism.

TEE-VEE TIPS

June Daye MA-4-B

When buying women's clothes in second-hand stores, as many of us must do, to avoid the embarassment of trying them on under the gaze of women shoppers, take a tape measure along, but before you go, measure the inside (NOT the outside) of a jacket or coat or even a dress that fits you, make a note of the size in inches that it measures from the one shoulder seam where the top of the sleeve is sewed on, across the inside of the garment just below the collar, to the other shoulder seam. Also check the sleeve length on the outside from the shoulder seam to the cuff, and the desired waist length from the collar to the bottom of the garment at the center of the back. Armed with these measurements you can buy almost anything in the coat or dress line without trying it on. Just murmur something about your wife being sick, unless you are an old hand at this sort of thing and don't even blush.

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