Sarah AJ
Terry Manette 1962 from "Letters from Female Impersonators". AI enhanced, upscaled and manually colourised
This is Terry Manette pictured in the 1962 publication "Letters From Female Impersonators Vol 8" (available here from The Digital Transgender Archive www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/s7526c435). Terry describes herself as an "amateur female impersonator" and in her letter, she goes on to describe how she obtains her clothes and how unfair it is women can wear male influenced clothes and yet men cannot be accepted wearing female clothes.
Unsurprisingly, I have found no more information about Terry. I wonder what happened to her and if she went on to develop her feminine side more.
Her letter in full is included here..
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Dear Sir:
I like all your books on female impersonation and I enjoy reading them, especially "Letters From Female Impersonators, " being an amateur female impersonator myself. Your letters and editorial comments verify my own doctor's comments on the effects of female hormone treatments.
I would like to have as much to "look forward to" as any of the more voluptuous females parading across our movie screens, with the possible exception of Tempest Storm, whose waist line, nevertheless, I admire greatly. If I could develop a bust that protruded about four inches WITHOUT losing my bass voice, nor my heterosexual characteristics, I might try it, even with some discomfort from time to time.
However, I have never wanted the moon and I find complete satisfaction doing a good job where God wants me. Another thing I wanted to comment on is the subject of female clothing. I get most of my clothing from the mail—order houses, especially Spiegel. Most of their stuff is fairly good. They have many standard brands and feature tall sizes, along with standard and petite.
Good clothes cost money but it is interesting to note that I can dress from the skin out, including pads, for less than a comparative outfit of my regular clothes cost. In other words, the additional cost of women's clothes is in the number of items she buys, as compared with the number of items a man buys.
I have a couple of places where I get eyelashes, leotards, tights, wigs and other odds and ends. Very frilly lingerie is another big item. I bought a sun suit, but have since put it in the Good Will Bag, along with a lot of shoes, bras, girdles, etc.
Most of the dress shops feature salesladies who look down very long noses at me or slowly raise a quizical eyebrow. I have not found one saleslady who I would call "sympathetic to an oddball hobby." I can buy hosiery at the markets and I doubt if anyone thinks that the flimsy things are for me.
At one place, the girl looked at the hosiery and then at me with an amused smile. I told her, with a straight face, that they were for me, and she laughed out loud, thinking that I was joking. Old women are usually the best out here.
They enter into the gag of a man getting ready for a costume party and they do their best to help me. In buying clothes, I cannot find a foundation garment that is long enough and restraining enough at the same time.
Some will stretch to the proper length but they also stretch the other way. I cannot find the bra I want. As bras go up in cup size, they expand in area rather than extend in depth. I have a Playtex Bandeau 40D, which is a good size for me. Unfortunately, the Longline in the same make and size is as big in volume but spread around rather than reaching forward.
I try little isolated dress shops now and then but am given a cold reception and only succeed because of the money involved in the sale. I have even felt that the police would be notified as soon as I left the store !
I think that the three books I received re— cently are the best yet. Volume 10 of The Art of Female Impersonation, and Volumes 6 and 7 of Letters from Female Impersonators all had good pictures in them. Until I found out about the Nutrix Co. I got all my female impersonation stuff out of the newspapers, largely men whom the police had picked up or ads of night clubs.
I have even called a radio station in my town and stated that men had as much right to appear on the street in female attire as women have appearing in male attire. This was one of those phone radio programs, so it got around.
I do not even have to include shorts, levies, slacks, toreador pants or any of the other feminine versions of an item formerly strictly male. I mean women in regular men's suits, trousers, coat, shirt, tie and hat. Men's shoes, too. I will champion this right until it is allowed or they start picking up women and dragging them off to the police.
I have no desire to parade on the street in female attire, but it would be a help to get ready ahead of time and drive to a costume party all decked out, instead of retiring to a bedroom or the dressing rooms and going through the work of transformation. I dress up as a sort of escape. Others get drunk.I don't drink so I need another route.
Lastly, I would Like to discuss mutual problems with any reader who cares to write to me, as you have my permission to forward my address to reliable persons requesting it.
Sincerely,
TERRY MANETTE
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TECHY STUFF:
The original screen grab was 485x693 pixels. This was upscaled and enhanced by a factor of three resulting in an image 1455x2079. The upscaling was performed by the excellent open source software "Upscayl" (www.upscayl.org/), I then used the open source image editor GIMP (www.gimp.org/) to convert to greyscale and then back to RGB for colourisation. Further white balancing and contrast adjustments were also performed in GIMP before adding the colourised layers and then exporting the image you see here as a JPG.
I was particularly impressed with the quality of the AI enhancements and upscalling. The resulting image was cleaned up from the original and after some minor white balancing in GIMP, the contrasts were particularly well defined.
Disclaimer: The digital enhancements to the original are all my own work, plus (in this case) use of AI enhancement. Any such unauthorised use (without prior permission) for that aspect of the work will be considered a violation of my partial copyright. Where the original item is shown, it is done so purely for comparative purposes only.
Terry Manette 1962 from "Letters from Female Impersonators". AI enhanced, upscaled and manually colourised
This is Terry Manette pictured in the 1962 publication "Letters From Female Impersonators Vol 8" (available here from The Digital Transgender Archive www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/s7526c435). Terry describes herself as an "amateur female impersonator" and in her letter, she goes on to describe how she obtains her clothes and how unfair it is women can wear male influenced clothes and yet men cannot be accepted wearing female clothes.
Unsurprisingly, I have found no more information about Terry. I wonder what happened to her and if she went on to develop her feminine side more.
Her letter in full is included here..
=============
Dear Sir:
I like all your books on female impersonation and I enjoy reading them, especially "Letters From Female Impersonators, " being an amateur female impersonator myself. Your letters and editorial comments verify my own doctor's comments on the effects of female hormone treatments.
I would like to have as much to "look forward to" as any of the more voluptuous females parading across our movie screens, with the possible exception of Tempest Storm, whose waist line, nevertheless, I admire greatly. If I could develop a bust that protruded about four inches WITHOUT losing my bass voice, nor my heterosexual characteristics, I might try it, even with some discomfort from time to time.
However, I have never wanted the moon and I find complete satisfaction doing a good job where God wants me. Another thing I wanted to comment on is the subject of female clothing. I get most of my clothing from the mail—order houses, especially Spiegel. Most of their stuff is fairly good. They have many standard brands and feature tall sizes, along with standard and petite.
Good clothes cost money but it is interesting to note that I can dress from the skin out, including pads, for less than a comparative outfit of my regular clothes cost. In other words, the additional cost of women's clothes is in the number of items she buys, as compared with the number of items a man buys.
I have a couple of places where I get eyelashes, leotards, tights, wigs and other odds and ends. Very frilly lingerie is another big item. I bought a sun suit, but have since put it in the Good Will Bag, along with a lot of shoes, bras, girdles, etc.
Most of the dress shops feature salesladies who look down very long noses at me or slowly raise a quizical eyebrow. I have not found one saleslady who I would call "sympathetic to an oddball hobby." I can buy hosiery at the markets and I doubt if anyone thinks that the flimsy things are for me.
At one place, the girl looked at the hosiery and then at me with an amused smile. I told her, with a straight face, that they were for me, and she laughed out loud, thinking that I was joking. Old women are usually the best out here.
They enter into the gag of a man getting ready for a costume party and they do their best to help me. In buying clothes, I cannot find a foundation garment that is long enough and restraining enough at the same time.
Some will stretch to the proper length but they also stretch the other way. I cannot find the bra I want. As bras go up in cup size, they expand in area rather than extend in depth. I have a Playtex Bandeau 40D, which is a good size for me. Unfortunately, the Longline in the same make and size is as big in volume but spread around rather than reaching forward.
I try little isolated dress shops now and then but am given a cold reception and only succeed because of the money involved in the sale. I have even felt that the police would be notified as soon as I left the store !
I think that the three books I received re— cently are the best yet. Volume 10 of The Art of Female Impersonation, and Volumes 6 and 7 of Letters from Female Impersonators all had good pictures in them. Until I found out about the Nutrix Co. I got all my female impersonation stuff out of the newspapers, largely men whom the police had picked up or ads of night clubs.
I have even called a radio station in my town and stated that men had as much right to appear on the street in female attire as women have appearing in male attire. This was one of those phone radio programs, so it got around.
I do not even have to include shorts, levies, slacks, toreador pants or any of the other feminine versions of an item formerly strictly male. I mean women in regular men's suits, trousers, coat, shirt, tie and hat. Men's shoes, too. I will champion this right until it is allowed or they start picking up women and dragging them off to the police.
I have no desire to parade on the street in female attire, but it would be a help to get ready ahead of time and drive to a costume party all decked out, instead of retiring to a bedroom or the dressing rooms and going through the work of transformation. I dress up as a sort of escape. Others get drunk.I don't drink so I need another route.
Lastly, I would Like to discuss mutual problems with any reader who cares to write to me, as you have my permission to forward my address to reliable persons requesting it.
Sincerely,
TERRY MANETTE
=================
TECHY STUFF:
The original screen grab was 485x693 pixels. This was upscaled and enhanced by a factor of three resulting in an image 1455x2079. The upscaling was performed by the excellent open source software "Upscayl" (www.upscayl.org/), I then used the open source image editor GIMP (www.gimp.org/) to convert to greyscale and then back to RGB for colourisation. Further white balancing and contrast adjustments were also performed in GIMP before adding the colourised layers and then exporting the image you see here as a JPG.
I was particularly impressed with the quality of the AI enhancements and upscalling. The resulting image was cleaned up from the original and after some minor white balancing in GIMP, the contrasts were particularly well defined.
Disclaimer: The digital enhancements to the original are all my own work, plus (in this case) use of AI enhancement. Any such unauthorised use (without prior permission) for that aspect of the work will be considered a violation of my partial copyright. Where the original item is shown, it is done so purely for comparative purposes only.