RANSVESTIA

I cut out the hip, phanny and front pads, has gone up 10 to 20 per- cent five times in the last 18 months. It is now at a point where I have no choice but to change their prices, too.

The bras with inserts have gone up again to such a point that I cannot feel right about selling them at the price they would have to bring about $10, so I am discontinuing the bras completely. The two kinds of inserts and the jelly will continue to be available, but recent increases to me by the manufacturer of the inserts requires them to be jumped another 50 cents, too. It's never ending, but that is the nature of inflation.

Please therefore consult the price list at the end of this issue and note the changes. The 10 percent postal surcharge will still be

necessary.

The mail order part of Chevalier has never paid much more than the cost of production and postage. It hasn't paid me. My income from Chevalier has come from the commercial sales since, although they get the items at wholesale, I can personally take the entire payment since the items have been paid for from the mail order side of the business. But costs to me personally have gone up also as they have to all of you so that I have been in a personal squeeze, too. Thus I have the choice of making Chevalier economically worthwhile or else closing it up and looking for other ways to supplement my income. I know that most of you don't want that last possibility to come to pass. Many of you have written to me to that effect-"Don't let Chevalier go under, we need you." I appreciate the fact that Transvestia is unique in its field. I founded it on that basis and have kept it that way. While there are other publications in the field, they all go much further afield into fetishism, bondage, homosexuality, transexuality, and other "trips." That is fine with me, there are lots of people interested in that sort of thing and they need literature, too, but not being into any of those things myself and knowing that there are a lot of others like me out there, I prefer to stick to something I know some- thing about and let others take care of everything else. Thus TVia is alone in its field-not only the first and oldest publication but, in my not too humble opinion, the best. It is that way not only because I keep it that way, but because you, the readers, make it possible. Naturally subscriptions keep any publication alive, but I'm referring here to the fact that you contribute your stories, articles, pictures and other contributions that make it possible. So I know you want it kept

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