Signs of the Times

CHANGING INTERESTS

Virginia Prince

Everything changes and evolves. Not so, cross dress enthusiasts, you might argue, they are always the same! Well, yes, the dressing itself apparently is, but the attitudes and interests of those who indulge in this attitude do seem to change. Most FPs wouldn't be in a position to notice this, but my position as editor of TVia affords me some unusual insights into what goes on.

I never gave this much thought until I started putting this issue together. For two issues back now I have been asking for pictures for a picture issue. When I did this in the past I got enough pics to practically fill the issue. This time I got only as many pics as you see in these pages. Oh some of you who sent in pics sent in more than four, but I couldn't use more than four of one person as it wouldn't be fair to those who only sent in a couple. It's not the number of pics per person that I'm referring to, but the number of people who responded at all.

Having noticed this I thought back to the reasons why I discontinued the Clipsheet some years ago. Newer readers among you will not know what that was so a word about it. When I was "just another TV" 30 years ago I avidly collected all the magazine articles, newspaper reports and other information dealing with the subject of crossing dressing that I could find and so did many others. I made a scrap book of this material. Shortly after I began to publish TVia I got the idea that since a lot of people collected scrapbooks and nobody could find and gather together all the material, why not combine forces. So I asked people to send in their material and I arranged it on big cards and had it photo reduced to fit an 81⁄2 x 14 sheet and printed it that way. Four of such sheets printed both sides with this

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