Hello, I have recently found your website and think it is wonderful. I like to dress as a little girl in nappies, and love to read the letters people have written about it. I would love to have been treated like that as a child, but I was not that lucky. Now I am 33 years old and married to a wonderful woman who lets me dress up at home, and even dresses me sometimes. I live in Lincoln, and noticed your PO box is in Grimsby, and also Mrs W. who is also in the area. Would it be possible for you to pass my e-mail address to her, and ask her to say hello? Nothing funny but I would really like to find out where to get some more dresses like Baby Bunting, and
maybe swap some ideas and clothing contacts.

I have met lots of big babies and nappy lovers on the net, but have never talked to a couple whose lifestyle is so much like my wife's and mine. Please keep writing the magazine, as we will be avid readers now that we have found it. Thanks for your time and effort at writing such a wonderful website, and I will write a proper article for you soon, with a couple of pics as well.
Yours,
Sissy Alice and Caroline

I have passed on your e-mail address to Mrs. W. It is really lovely that we are hearing news of so many couples where the wife plays a dominant role, and the husband is her little baby and housemaid. Perhaps the message of 'Petticoat Discipline Monthly' is really starting to get through. And please do write to me again Alice, because petticoated.com is always in need of new letters and articles about our favourite subject. 

Dear Susan,

By accident I came upon your site, and was most pleased and impressed. You are doing a great job. I always thought that petticoating was entirely proper for young males as a way of helping them to fit in with today's social expectations.

I was never too impressed with the idea of it being used as a punishment. Punishment can result in anger, and the results may be
the opposite as that desired. The word 'discipline' seems to be the right direction to go. I use it in the context of a procedure or protocol, the goal being to obtain a corrective response, which is different from punishment.

Hopefully, eventually the youngster may see it as a reward, or perhaps a opportunity to become a better person.Spanking is a form of punishment. I'm not opposed to it when used properly, but I don't like to see petticoating thought of in the same context.
Keep up the good work. Perhaps we can establish a relationship. I think the British and the Scots have a more advanced outlook on
this subject than most Americans.
Julie, USA

Yes, petticoat discipline is an especially British phenomenon, as the literature over the last century or so shows, and we have brought it to a high pitch of piquant humilation. It is certainly not meant to evoke anger: that unhealthy response is associated more with corporal punishment. It should evoke subdued docility, and over time bring forth love and, as you say, make the recipient a better person. 

I explain the full procedure on the front cover. Thank you for your help regarding that 'Governess' extract, Lindsey. If you ever need a job, then petticoated.com could certainly do with a film and television historian and reporter. English rates of pay in American dollars are not high, but it is a very friendly place to work, and I do supply coal in winter.

It looks like I will be going public in my football kilt in the near future. A friend of my wife has a daughter who plays in a pipe band.

The band is having a ceidleih in early March to raise funds.  My wife told her friend about my kilt, and the two of them have decided that I should wear  it. I know it will stick out as being more skirt-like than kilt-like, as I will be surrounded by people wearing real kilts.

We also bought a pin for the kilt, as I will not be wearing a sporran. On returning home, whilst I was putting the pin onto the kilt, my wife commented that it must be rather uncomfortable, to have wool rubbing against me all the time.  I said it wasn't that bad, but suggested a pair of silky boxers which would feel nice, and prevent chaffing.  My wife, though, has other ideas.  She has decided that I will wear a slip under my kilt.  This would prevent chaffing, and also mean I will have to be VERY careful when dancing and sitting down.

In order that she can be sure that I do not sneak off to the toilet and remove it, she is going to make me wear a full slip, which will fall to mid thigh.  I have seen it, and it is really nice to the touch, and is lavender in colour.

I will have to be VERY careful if I am made to get up to dance !!!
Jennifer

I am very pleased to hear that you are obedient to your wife's wishes. It sounds to me as though she fully understands what a sissy you are, and she may also have decided that you are to wear pretty little knickers under your kilt, in which case I would be very careful  indeed during any dancing. Hopefully, the friend will not be tempted to lift up the hem to peep at what is underneath. 

I am enclosing a letter which I hope you will enjoy. My hubby is a big baby really, and we have collected a lot of the magazines that you quote from over the years. Hubby and I can't wait for the first of the month, and his first job is to print out the entire issue. Then when it is bedtime he has to put on his nappy and pink footed baby sleepie-byes, and lie in bed sucking his dummy while I kneel over him reading the juiciest parts out loud.

It sounds like he must be in seventh heaven, but not quite, because some of the letters give me ideas which might not be to his liking. The 'Meek Little Nursery Maid' letter in the January issue gave me some very good ideas for baby punishment, and my husband definitely sensed my interest. He is often especially well behaved and obedient after 'PDM' has published a really good dummy discipline letter, because he knows what might happen to him if he is naughty!
Mrs Nancy P.

I am very glad to see that merely reading 'Petticoat Discipline Monthly' has a very salutory effect on your husband. I will endeavour to publish some especially humiliating nursery letters in the next few months to ensure that he stays in line.

Dear Susan,

Thank you so much for your most interesting magazine. My story is somewhat different fomr your usual contributors. I am a male aged 60 and have worn corsets on a daily basis since the age of thirteen and a half, due intitially to a back injury when I had to wear a very heavy surgical corset for 18 months. Then when I was just 15 the hospital told me that I could stop wearing the corset.

However, my mother was quite insistent that I should continue to wear an 'ordinary' corset...this was to be moderately boned with busk front fastening, and back lacing in a male style. I found it just as stiff to wear but much lighter and cooler than the surgical one. I must confess that I had got used to the feel and support of the corset and continued to wear one from that time on.

Over all these years of wearing corsets I have become fully convinced that ALL boys and men would benefit from the wearing of corsets. The benefits would I believe be..improved figure and appearance...much improved posture, thus avoiding many of the back problems encountered these days with the consequent loss of many thousands of working days...and, finally, I really do believe that the wearing of a corset especially by young boys starting no later than puberty would help to discipline them, and instil some of the respect which is so sadly lacking in our modern society. And so I would urge..bring back the corset for both men and boys.
Yours sincerely.
Jeff.

I do concur with your observation that the restriction and control of corsets is of great disciplinary value in itself, but I would additionally suggest that they be girls' or women's corsets or girdles, with plenty of lace panelling, to supply the added effectiveness of petticoating. They really are unbeatable for keeping males under feminine control in all ways.

I certainly hope this letter finds you in good form, and the pressures involved in organising a magazine such as your brilliant publication has decreased somewhat.  When you find yourself falling foul of happier moments, take a cup of tea and think fondly of
the lovely landscapes of the areas from which you and I had our younger years.  Cornwall is especially nice this time of year, as spring takes its earnest first few steps, and I am constantly astonished by the changing patterns of sky and turf.

Indeed, we had a happy Christmas, complete with old-fashioned entertainment and sweets. Thank you for forwarding these two letters.  In agreement with what you've eloquently stated in your editorials, I am not keen on acting as a 'contact' or 'house of service' for the repressed and eager who roam the internet.  However, I have on occasion taken on pupils who've discovered me through means I'm not usually fond of; and I take my duties very seriously. Often, I can be of service to wives/mothers.  On first impression, the author of the first letter would gain much from a grammar lesson, as much as a pinafore routine.

It is lovely to hear from you.  I certainly hope you had a festive Robbie Burns day.  I was visiting friends in the Shetlands (such a strange dialect!) for the occasion, and much fun was had!

I return now to my duties, please excuse me.  There's wee creature standing (sulking) in the corner as I write.
Oll an gwella,
Sarah Fraser

The reader who needs the grammar lesson is Ian. Sarah has received the letters, but whether she will accept those who wrote in as boarders in her Cornish petticoat training school I know not. She is a remarkable woman, with more than a hint of Daphne du Maurier's rich and sensitive resonance with the trees and rocks of her native Cornwall.

I entirely agree, Sarah, about not accepting students merely because they crave petticoat punishment. What you offer goes much deeper, and is much more culturally enriching, than that. Nevertheless I am a little testy about you referring to 'Petticoat Discipline Monthly' as ...'means I'm not usually fond of...' This magazine upholds the very highest standards of grammatical and linguistic precision, and I spend hours each week ensuring that those standards are maintained. Moreover, I am always striving to introduce fresh material for my readers' edification, such as 'Saffy's Corner' this month. As is the case with your own program, I aim to provide more than the (admittedly very beneficial) message of petticoat and pinafore discipline. 

Oh my goodness! I've only begun to read your publication beginning with the Christmas issue and I'm already in love with it, as is my wife and mentor, Darlene. As a writer of crossdressing fiction, I am also a practicing crossdresser under the firm control of my wife. Under her control means I dress when she decides it is prudent, and exist solely for her pleasure. She makes all clothing, make up and hair styling decisions, and also plans all social occasions.

I of course am also the dutiful housekeeper as well as her body servant and beauty services technician. She insists that when dressed I play the role of prim and proper homemaker, and sees to it that I am nicely mannered, coiffured, made up, and attired precisely for my duties. I want you to know we already have fallen in love with your magazine. The drawings by Carole Jean were perfect, and we've already found more at two other sites.
Thanks for a great read.

Priscilla Gay Bouffant, property of Madame Darlene.

Priscilla's fluttery style is not really in tune with the Scotch common sense of 'Petticoat Discipline Monthly', but nevertheless it is always gratifying to hear from a male who is absolutely devoted to his wife's happiness, and who finds great and unselfish satisfaction in his role of submissive homemaker. I am sure that Darlene loves you very much.

The drawings kindly contributed by Carole Jean were one of the most popular features of the Christmas Annual. If you go to her site you will  find scores of petticoat punishment pictures. 

Just wanted to thank you and your staff for the fine job you do.  I enjoyed the February issue very much. I've become a lot more comfortable with my feminine side since reading the accounts in 'Petticoat Discipline Monthly'. I had thought of sending in my background.  However, since there is no direct petticoating involved, I doubt that it would be suitable or useful.

The panties on the cover of the February issue are very beautiful.  Do you happen to know where they could be obtained?
Wishing you and your staff every success and happiness.
Sincerely,
Baby Janet

The girls in the typing pool, as well as the male staff at petticoated.com, were absolutely thrilled by your praise and good wishes. Miss Gribble scanned your letter (which I had pinned to the notice board in the canteen), and then  fixed me with an icy Gorbals stare, and said, 'Well, it's nice to be appreciated by SOMEBODY around here!'

I am very glad that PDM has made you happier with your feminine or baby side. Those knickers are very pretty. A reader sent me the reference to that picture at the Ebay auction site, which I am sure many of my readers know well:

One more thing: 'Miss' please dear Janet, not Ms, which I hate. 

Dear Ms. Susan,
 
I just loved your addition to 'Petticoat Discipline Monthly', 'Dummy Discipline Digest', in the December issue. Will you be continuing this feature?
 
I am a 50 year old crossdresser and only wish my wife of 22 years would take control. She has known of my panty wearing and lingerie. She complains that I don't help enough around the house; if only she would realise that she has the power to control me with thorough petticoat discipline. I have brought this idea to her attention through out the years, but she never tried it.
Donna

'Dummy Discipline Digest' is an annual publication which is presented for the information of big babies and their mummies as part of the Christmas Annual. Donna, it sounds like you should be doing a lot more of the housework. If you make your wife happy, perhaps she would tie you into a nice ruffled pinafore if you asked nicely. I think that is the right order in which to approach things. I expect my male readers to be properly unselfish and to put their wives first. And please - Miss, not Ms. 

Having seen your excellent website I have come to realise that I am missing something in my life, and that is discipline.

When I was a child I was often spanked and put back into nappies and reins for acting like a baby, such as the time when I wet myself during a tantrum because I couldn't have things my own way. I was the eldest of three boys and the last one out of nappies! I was still wearing a nappy at night until I was 11. I remember once being spanked in front of four girl cousins when around at their house, and being made to wear a dress and a nappy in front of them.

I am now in my mid thirties and am again wearing a nappy at night as I am incontinent due to a back injury. What I need now and
again is a good old fashioned over the knee spanking with the kitchen spatula or something similar and then to be put back in nappies and reins and treated like a two year old. Some of your readers seem so lucky to have found the right woman to attend to their needs, I just wish I could find one too!
Mikey

I wish I could find the partners my readers so desparately need, but I can't. I know that there is a great deal of loneliness amongst my readership, but the petticoated.com staff and I are doing our best to partly relieve it by providing you all with the magazine. My best wishes for the future are with Mikey, and others like him.