Dear Susan,

Thank you for your advice. I'm looking forward to using baby reins - I feel they will be a real benefit in the training of my hubby. I would be very grateful for any further advice you or your readers can give regarding the application of this, potentially most useful, humiliating device.

As I indicated earlier, I fully approve of the strict petticoating of males. But this practice is oh-so-much-the-better with the formality of genuine girls' school uniform, concomitant with all the regulations and discipline that goes with being a lowly, soppy schoolgirl. Do note, that we are not talking here of fictional 'St Trinians' style (though I realise that may have its place) but real, used, worn (and often ill fitting! - I know) schoolwear.

My husband now 'enjoys' a life as a convent schoolgirl - of the very school I attended. My, how we loathed the rules & the uniform! In fact, the school is still in existence, and I can confirm that the present pupils continue to resent the rules and detest the uniform outfits as much as we did.

If you will forgive me, I will continue in the form of short notes to describe some of the aspects of my hubby's schoolgirl life:

(1) All uniform is in accordance with the strict regulation of the Sacred Heart Convent School for Girls.

(2) The school uniform list is very comprehensive and detailed - he must learn all the uniform rules and know them by heart, ready for recital when I choose to test him.
 

(3) He has multiples of all the proper regulation items. There are winter outfits, summer outfits, coats, hats, games wear, science wear, underwear etc.

(4) A useful task to set is the sewing-in of his own name tag, in to each and every one of the garments. This is very effective as it fully emphasises that the school things are now his own. I feel that this is especially humbling when the task includes removing, first, an old name-tag from second hand things.
 

(5) It is of the utmost importance that the uniform is all used and, preferably, well worn. He must constantly scan local newspapers for suitable sales of no-longer-required uniform items. Another suitably humiliating experience is to send him in person to make these purchases - the previous wearer is only too glad to be rid of the universally hated things. Further sources of regulation uniform are a couple of used school wear shops in the town.

Another plus of these 'previously owned' things is that there are often stories to tell in little repairs here and there. The clothes have often lost their shape, and usually also contain that pervasive smell of school institutions - ideal!  'She' does get sent out in full school uniform - I like him to feel the cold air up round his school skirts and dresses - just like I did!
 
I will send more information when I have time.

Having read your site, my hubby begged me not to send you details on his life. However, he is in disgrace at present for a misdemeanour - so I have forwarded these notes...

Caroline.

Here we have more details from Caroline concerning her husband's school girl discipline. Caroline originally wrote requesting advice about the use of baby reins in last month's issue. I certainly recall the drabness of girls' school gymslips, the starched and ironed shirts or blouses, the fleecy bloomers, with a tight band of leg elastic which was a disciplinary measure in itself, in navy blue or British racing green, the thick, itchy lisle stockings, and the unfashionable shoes which had to be shined all over, especially at the back. We were allowed a bit of femininity with our straw hats and hair ribbons, which were commonly worn on two braided pigtails.

Any man forced to endure old fashioned school girl dress is being petticoat punished indeed, even if the clothing lacks the baby frills and tucks that many males in these pages find so devastatingly humiliating. Thinking of pigtails gives me one idea for you Caroline: have you thought of giving your poor husband braiding lessons? Perhaps the school girl daughter of one of your friends might find it amusing to help out. Remember that your hubbie cannot possibly be a proper little school girl until he can braid a pigtail at the back of his head. Once he has learned to braid side pigtails (plenty of practice in front of a mirror is essential of course, so he will sit facing his silly school girl self for hours as he tries to get it right), then he should be taught how to tie perky bows in them by himself.

Have you thought of a netball ring in the back garden where he can practice this most feminine of court games? American readers won't know what I am talking about, but netball is a super game, much better than basketball, which girls in British countries play, wearing little pleated skirts and satin finish knickers. Shorts are never permitted. Learning to appreciate netball would be first rate petticoat discipline for any male who just thinks about football, and looks down on girls' games. For interested readers, here are a few sites: 

I do hope that you will remember our correspondence last March (I think it was) concerning my hubby's life as a convent schoolgirl - wearing the very uniforms that I had to as a girl. I note with great interest that you are planning a schoolgirl special soon. This has prompted me to ask whether you have considered extending the cross-referencing of letters & advice from back issues. It seems to me that, quite often, similar points come up which could be usefully referred back to earlier information.

I believe that you may now be able to use photographs, and so I have appended some of my dear little convent schoolgirl in her 'delightful' uniform. Since she has been quite good of late, I have agreed to block out her face a little - but rest assured that she was wearing a suitably humbled expression!  However, having reviewed them, she will be in real trouble for having hands in her pockets like that...tut-tut.

As I indicated earlier, I fully approve of the strict petticoating of males. But this practice is oh-so-much-the-better with the formality of genuine girls' school uniform, concomitant with all the regulations and discipline that goes with being a lowly, soppy schoolgirl. Do note, that we are not talking here of fictional 'St Trinians' style (though I realise that may have its place), but real, used, worn (and often ill fitting! - I know) schoolwear.

Caroline

PS -- yes, the netball prctice is now an important part of the school life. There is a ring in the back garden (not all that private!) - naturally, I insist on the correct PE uniform for this.

Thank you for remembering us at petticoated.com, Caroline, and I hope you and hubby are continuing to gain pleasure and instruction from the pages of 'Petticoat Discipline Monthly'. No doubt he wears cotton interlock dark maroon knickers underneath. And I am VERY glad to hear that netball practice is now a part of your 'schoolgirl's' routine - it is a wonderful game.
Susan