Lynne Robberts 1961 from "Letters from Female Impersonators Vol 4", AI enhanced, upscaled and manually colourised.

This is Lynne Robberts, pictured in the 1961 edition of the Nutrix publication "Letters From Female Impersonators Vol 4" which is available to view via the Digital Transgender Archive (www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/tb09j566n).

My research hasn't revealed a lot about Lynne, however there is a group photo of The Jewel Box Review where she appears (www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/mg74qm26b) and she does appears in another Nutrix publication "The Art of Female Impersonation Vol 4" (www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/5138jd881)

Curiously, Lynne speaks of herself in the third person throughout her letter, describing how she fell into the profession of Female Impersonation owing to a female model falling ill during a photoshoot. It appears Lynne was living full time as a woman at the time of writing.

As always, I welcome ant further information anyone may have about Lynne. The techy information is at the end of this post and I'll leave you with her letter as it appears in the publication.

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Dear Sir:
Per your request, here are some items about myself on how I started out in the practice of female impersonation. These are written in the third person and I do hope they may be of interest and help to your clientelle.
"Lynne" became a female impersonator soon after graduating from high school. Not planning on going to college, "she" took a job as a photographer's assistant. As it so happened, during the very important shooting of some fashion models, one of the models had become violently ill and had to leave the studio.

However, the fashion shooting had to be completed and delivered that very same day. In a quandry, the photographer remembered Lynne in a comedy take-off on "Romeo and Juliet" in a last year high school dramatic presentation. Lynne had the acting "bug" and had played the part of Juliet and although the play was a comedy, Lynne had played her part with grace and beauty, letting only her lines deliver the farce effect.
Had anyone not known Lynn was a boy, they certainly would have believed her to be a lovely girl of high school age while watching this presentation. The photographer remembered all this in a quick flash and realized the solution to his problem immediately.

Lynne accepted the photographer's offer as soon as it was made. Twenty minutes later, she stood in a rose-covered archway wearing a long, white satin wedding dress. A lace veil hung far below her long blonde hair wig, scarlet finger nails tipping beautiful slender fingers and handheld the bride's.

Lynne enjoyed the thrill of wearing feminine attire and the rustle of the satin material rubbing against her body made her desire to wear female clothing all the time, instead of heavy and warm male attire. The photographs came out very well and soon Lynne received other offers to pose in feminine finery from other photographers also.

In that one quickly fleeting hour, Lynne knew that female attire was to be an all-importanly factor in her life, for the rest of her life.Her own masculine clothes were soon buried in a box in a closet, only to be used when female roles were scarce.

Many photographers kept in touch with her and her reputation as a fashion model soared to new heights. After all, the photographers could not reveal the model to be a fake and no one else had ever known the truth. Even the other girls on that day did not realize the switch. Lynne likes satin best, of which many of her panties, brassieres, slips, blouses and even a dress are made.

A local theatrical agent offered her a place in a new review at a night club and Lynne accepted, becoming the featured "strip tease" attraction there. She never revealed her true identity as a male, for Lynne never removes her wig or bra in her act or when posing for photos. Things are working out fine for Lynne, money, all the clothes she wants and, most of all, Lynne is living the life she wants to, as a female.

Lynne appreciates the many nice comments on her appearance and acting talent, stemming
from the lovely write-up about Lynne Robberts in Volume Six of "The Art of Female Impersonation and only regrets that she does not have the time to answer each letter received personally. However, Lynne sends her best regards to all of her fans, wherever they are.

Sincerely,

"Lynne Robberts."
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The original screen grab was 449x576 pixels. This was upscaled and enhanced by a factor of three resulting in an image 1347x1728. 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.

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.

Taken on: April 5, 2024

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