ABC meets regularly in Paris or other towns. So I was not vey much surprised when I received an invitation for a weekend in Paris. Three events were forseen, a soirée d'élégance (elegant evening) on Friday and two different restaurants on Saturday noon and evening. Between the organized events many of the members profit from the occasion to walk around a bit and do some shopping.

The invitation for the elegant evening made clear that a long dress/skirt was obliged together with a general 'dressed up' attitude. I do not have a long dress, nor has my spouse. When I said to my wife that I could not go to the meeting for that reason, she replied to me that I would always talk about going out with the girls, but when an occasion comes up I would try to find excuses why not to join them! She then came up with the idea that I should wear the indian silk Saree I had bought for her(!) some time ago when I was in India. There was no way I could get out of that now, so I decided to do it and to enjoy it!

With the weekend of the meeting approaching I started to practise how to put on the Saree. You may not know, but a Saree consists of about 6 metres of tissue to be wrapped around the body in a certain way. In the beginning we were having alot of difficulties even when my wife helped me to put it, but with some practise I finally could do it alone. OK it was not as nicely made as I had seen in India, but would do for the girls.

The Friday of the evening event, I had taken the afternoon off. Although I do live fairly close to downtown Paris I did not like the idea to drive there dressed in a Saree and even less to drive home in the middle of the night like that. On plus of that the restaurant for the event was right downtown (20 metres from the rue de Rivoli, no parking possible at all) that's why I had opted to take a hotel in Paris. Around 3 p.m. I started my transformation at home, not the Saree yet, just a short skirt (the one from the Québec photos), sweater and the necessary rest. Of course there was no reason for leaving the house en femme if it wasn't my pride not to start a meeting of TG girls in male darb! I sneeked out of the house, in my car and off for downtown Paris. An hour and a couple of traffic jams later I spotted a parking space not too far from the hotel, which is well known with our organization. I walked to the hotel and checked in, asking who had already arrived. There were about 10 girls from our group in that small hotel for the weekend. I had a chat with our president Gaby and then decided that it was far too early to put on my gown now, I rather went for a trip outside. Night had fallen already it was raining a bit and hidden behind my umbrella there was no problem at all. I went into two small shops, got read in one but only after discussing with the cassier.

Back in the hotel change of make-up, more colours, more exotic, but not too much.

I will not go through the rest of the evening, it was very nice, good food, good wine, and nice talking with the other girls as you can expect. We headed back to the hotel at about 2 a.m. in the morning.

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