Hello Susan,

A good friend of mine told me of your site and I have enjoyed the wonderful and caring aspects of it since last Christmas.Thank you for providing an insight into the world of petticoating.  My beautiful wife gave me her lycra full brief panties and three pair of firm pantie girdles to wear in 1980. I was not forced in any way to wear them, but the feeling of having such nice lingerie to wear was great.

Since that time I have had a corsetiere to fit me. My wife will not go with me to be fitted, however we do shop together for lovely lingerie.  Even though I don't think that I was forced into girdles, there is a nagging doubt in my mind that I was "conditioned" over the years to wear corsetry.  If I provide you with some of the things that have happened during these wonderful years of being corseted, would you advise me if my wife has, in a subtle way, been "petticoating", or, as my female friend put it, whether she has "corset and panty trained" me.

Please Susan, I would like to know, as when I ask my wife she will only give me a hint of a smile, and says I am being silly. Do wives use subtle and gentle training over a number of years to enforce petticoating on their husbands? I will tell you the reasons why I think as I do if you would kindly allow me.
Warm regards,

Eve

It sounded to me that that was precisely what had happened - of course generally speaking men, and this may include the most intelligent of men, are not necessarily sensitive to feminine wiles. I asked for more details, and have received another letter from Eve:

Hello Susan,

My wife and I have been married for 29 years, and it has been a very happy marriage.

My wife gave me Bendon "cheekies" lycra full brief panties to wear in 1980.  These have an elastic seam that went from the back of waistband down to the crotch. This caused the bottom to have a 'peach' look and that appealed to my wife. The panties are plain except for lace at the waist and leg. I fell in love with them as they were panties my beloved wife had worn, (albeit for a few weeks before she gave them to me…all twelve pairs!) and also I loved the feel of lycra. (Why did she give me some with the labels still on them...maybe after all these years I am thinking of how I came to be panty trained and corseted! Did she actually buy them for me?)

The pantie girdles were given to me at the same time. I also loved the way the girdle hugged me, and the support for a male was wonderful. I think I loved the way the girdle made me look slimmer, even though I am naturally slim. The girdle also lifted my bottom to enhance my figure. My wife was so loving to me when I wore them.

I needed more pantie girdles, as three pairs were not enough, as sometimes when I wanted to wear a girdle they were all in the wash. A corset shop whose owner was a Miss V. agreed to personally fit me, and I was fitted by a lovely lady (Joy) for twelve years, until Miss V. retired. Her requirement was for me to wear latex rubber panties, to keep the girdle I was trying on clean, and they also served to give me a feminine look where appropriate.

The first girdle Joy put me into in 1980 was a Hickory Style 3 which is a firm control brief type girdle. It's very firm, and I still wear this style today.  Towards the end of 1980 Joy fitted me into a style 5, which is a boned, high waist, long leg girdle. After she fitted me, Joy normally told me to get dressed, and she made me keep my rubber panties on with my new girdle. On this occasion Joy left the fitting room and returned with an underwired, boned longline bra. Not a word was said, Joy didn't ask if I wanted to wear a bra, she just opened it out for my arms to go through. I hesitated and Joy shook the bra a couple of times. I put my arms through the straps and after I was fastened into it I asked Joy why I had to wear a bra, (I did not consider myself a cross dresser at the time) and she told me that the bra was the correct piece of corsetry for a man who wears girdles, and, that as I had the figure of a woman, she was going to corset me like one. I blushed with embarrassment, and I can remember that day as if it were yesterday!

When I went home I thought my wife would blow a fuse or something, but she seemed to accept that what Joy put me into she would agree with. (This is, thinking back so far, another thing that makes me think my wife was consciously training me…I would expect most wives would be mad about their hubbies' coming home in a bra).

I purchased another longline bra a few weeks after the initial fitting, but several fittings later when I went to Joy for another girdle, to which I didn't wear my bra, Miss V. noticed, and she came into the fitting room with an all-in-one corselette. She mentioned to Joy that she wanted me to be kept "fully corsetted, so that I couldn't remove my bra." I was duly fitted into the corselette by Joy, and without complaint from me. Afterwards Miss V. came in to check on the fit, and at this point she said I would be a "good girl" if I slept corseted to improve my figure. (This is something I still do to this day). Anyway, from that day on I was referred to in the feminine grammatical form.

Again, my wife did not bat an eyelid when I arrived home.  I have often wondered if my wife had given instructions to Miss V. I have asked my wife a few times, but her body language now tells me not to be so persistent in this matter.

Since Miss V. closed her shop in 1992, I have been fitted at another corset shop, and I am still corseted there today.  I have added to my intimate things a lovely powder blue suspender belt, black lycra stockings, and a pair of modest ladies' court shoes.

My wife has bought me a dress, which fits me perfectly, but I have not worn it apart from trying it on. There is no pressure for me to wear any particular girdle, pantie or bra etc., except sometimes I will be given a hint, or a girdle is put on the bed for when I come out of the shower. All is done so subtly.

On another note, I admire what you have achieved with your site, and was quite moved by the picture of you and your younger son in pretty pink dresses. You look so pretty, and your son absolutely delightful. The caption states that your son adores wearing panties. Are you thinking of figure training him, as he is almost at the age to bear a tightly laced pantie corset? Constricting his waist at a young age will ensure will be able to wear the most pretty and elegant dresses. He is so lucky to have such a wonderful and caring mother.

A picture of my corsetry is attached for your pleasure. It is of my pantie corselette, which is heavily boned and has hook and eye closure, after which a zipper cinches in the final few inches. There are cinching panels that control the tension on the waist for proper figure training. It is very tight, and would be ideal for a husband undergoing petticoat discipline. 

My wife and I do shop for lovely lingerie together, and this gives both of us so much pleasure. Do you think I have been subtly petticoated by the use of lingerie and corsets?
Warmest regards,

Eve

I must than you for your compliments, but I am afraid that the picture (on the cover of the March issue) is not of myself. I wish I were as young and pretty as that; the girl in the picture looks an absolute darling. The picture in fact accompanied a letter to the 'problem page' in a magazine, and would have been added by the magazine, rather than sent in by the mother. It is very sweet though.
Susan

As a post-post script, I hope Eve does not mind if I print parts of her most recent letter, as it makes some important points about the helpful effects of petticoating, and some praise, and I can't get enough of that - its a feminine weakness I know, and I really shouldn't confess to it in a magazine in which the feminine rules the masculine with a loving but firm hand.

It was not until I read the back issues of 'Petticoat Discipline Monthly' that I appreciated what has happened to me over the years I have been corseted.  But, having said that, I have to say that I have enjoyed the experience.  I have looked back over the years and have found that before I began to wear panties and corsetry I was more dominant within the marriage. I find now that I am more demure, and that I help my wife a lot more with tasks in the house such as cleaning and cooking. I cook the evening meal most nights now. I am also more attentive to my wife's needs especially when I am fully corseted. I'm not sure why this is but I think the tightness of the corsetry, and the nice lace of the cups makes me feel more loving and willing to help. I have become a properly petticoated submissive husband I suppose.

You have said that you think I have been subtly petticoated, and I'm sure you are right. My wife has, therefore, progressed me from wearing lycra panties to the tight restrictiveness of firm control pantie girdles as well as zippered firm control, boned, all-in-one pantie corselettes. My corsetry is worn for at least six days of the week, and twenty three out of twenty four hours of the day.

I hope I did not offend with regard to mistaking you for the lady and her son (the son was pantied and in a pink dress). You said you wish you were as pretty as she was. I'm sure you are pretty Susan. You have a special beauty within you, and I can tell by your writings that you are a lovely person.  Will you in the magazine have an article of how you have petticoated your partner/husband, or your son? It would be of great interest as I'm sure others, like me, think of you as an authority on petticoating.  Thank you again for having such an informative and interesting web site, and for your kindness.
Hugs,
Eve