If you’ve ever seen The Dick Van Dyke Show, you’ll be fascinated to hear that their TV son little Ritchie grew up to be a cross-dresser! The whole story is in this week’s Globe. 51 year old Larry Mathews, who played Ritchie Petrie, confesses he started wearing dresses when he was a teenager on Halloween and liked it too much to stop. He’s been happily married for twenty years to a woman who not only doesn’t mind him dressing up, but lends him her clothes! (They’re the SAME size!) He dresses in full drag for parties, clubs, and special events, but when he goes to work (at a video post production facility) he limits himself to pink polish (OPI‘s Strawberry Margarita) on toes and fingers and eye shadow. Larry can’t understand why society frowns on a man wearing a dress. “No one bats an eyelash if they see a woman in men’s clothes!”
