GOVER

GIRL

Lady Paula Howard

Back in the fabulous fifties, contemporarily ultra-feminine in a king-sized, cartwheel black velvet hat and, thanks to a smart fashion photographer, I graced the front cover of the leading American crossdressing magazine Transvestia and during the same month, the President of the giant American corporation for which I then worked, made the cover of Time Magazine.

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Quite a few years later, I was on every United Kingdom. breakfast table from the Shet- lands to the Scillies, having made the front page of a five million circulation Sunday paper The President of the company I worked for had no answer to that he had already worked himself out and gone on to whatever Happy Hunting Ground is reserved for deceased chief executives of the world's largest corporations. All of which seems to me to be trying to prove something or the other - though I can't quite think what.

Maybe it's just that being an extroverted crossdresser can be a whole lot of fun and less hard on the arteries and the central nervous system than be- ing in the great Industrial rat

race.

Yes, I guess that's the mes- sage I was getting and which I am now giving. If you can stay out of trouble with Society, crossdressing can be fun - life viewed from the other side of the dark mirror is very inter- esting. And I hold to that view notwithstanding the gloomy words of my dictionary which defines Transvestism as "a mor- bid preoccupation with dressing in the clothes of the opposite sex!"

Crossdressing can be fun!! You like that line? Well, you can't have it as of now it is