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>There were as many reasons for her to change her >clothes at my house, as there were for me to change my >clothes at her house. Perhaps even more. I seem to >recall that sometimes the excuse was given; she got >into our pool, so needed to change her clothes. > >Looking back on it as an adult, I don't think that was >really the case. > >My parents kept, (in a storage room down the hallway >from the door leading out to the pool) a supply of >swimsuits, (one peice only, none of the bikini style) >swim trunks, (for boys) and t-shirts. All of which >were in multiple children's sizes, up to even stuff >that fit teenagers. > >(We sometimes hosted company pool parties at our >house) > >Also, she actually had her own bathing suit, (a couple >of them really, as my parents bought her a new one >every birthday) in a cupboard, in a hall closet where >the wing deviated from the main house. > >My point is that she wouldn't be getting her play >clothes wet in our pool. Besides, if there were no >teenagers or adults, (aside from Mr K, who was often >in the big downstairs kitchen down the hall from the >pool) no one in the wing, we would often just skinny >dip. > >People didn't freak out about that as much in the 70s >as they do now. (Particularly not outside the Bible >Belt) > >I suppose, if it was after church, or another occasion >when she arrived at my house, wearing a dress or dress >clothes... getting back into those might be a better >reason to need a complete change up. > >(And she HATED wearing dresses) > >Also, if we were having a sleepover, we would >generally need something to sleep in, and something to >wear the next day. Especially if we were coming >straight from school. > >We would NEVER be playing after school in our school >uniforms. > >But if it was an after school deal, it would also be >preplanned anyway. If Nicole's and Georgie's parents >were not driving us to school, then my own parents >would be. Unless it's a sleep over situation then >everybody would go (or dropped off at) to their >respective house, right after school. And we'd meet up >later across the ravine. > >Preplanned, always meant that whomever was staying at >whose house, they would bring with them a duffle bag >full of pajamas, clothes, and whatnot. > >That said, most of our sleepovers were probably >spur-of-the-moment decisions anyway. Or perhaps an >emergency if it were Nicole and Georgie's parents. My >parents had someone to look after Brother and I if we >had an emergency. > >An emergency might end up with both siblings at our >place, maybe overnight. (On rare occasions, a few >nights) > >So yeah, it would be my clothes or Half-Brother's >clothes that she would wear. Georgie, as far as I >know, he fit comfortably in Older-Brother's clothes. >He never complained. > >As I said Nicole and I were the same size. But would >she be wearing my underpants too? > >...Well, no one had a problem with me wearing >Georgie's whitey tighties. That's true. But it seemed >that absolutely no one thought it appropriate for me >to be put into her panties. > >But then again, most of her clothes it was thought to >be inappropriate for me to wear. > >(I put on a pink t-shirt of hers one time, after a >bath at their house. And her father definitely had a >few things to say about that. I wasn't present for any >conversation between her parents and mine, so I don't >know what mine said about it, if anything.) > >That said, I don't recall hearing anyone ever saying >that any of my clothes were inappropriate for her to >wear. She frequently wore overalls, and had plenty of >them in her own closet. And I do know that overalls >were considered by most people around us to be boy's >clothes. > >Despite all of that, at the end of the day I don't >rightly recall noticing her wearing my whitey >tighties. And up to a certain age, we even took baths >together, so if she did, then I should have seen it. > >But then again I don't rightly remember anything that >strongly suggests she didn't wear them either. Adults >seemed far more concerned that I wasn't wearing some >of her clothes. > >(A double standard to be sure, but such is life.) > >And I just didn't really pay attention. I knew what of >hers I wasn't supposed to wear, because that was >directly about me. But anything specifically about >her, that she could not wear, I'm a little more >sketchy on that.

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