Dear Miss MacDonald,

Congratulations on your excellent website for petticoat discipline. My wife was a Miss MacDonald, and I confess that I look on her in a slightly different light after reading your advice! I can feel the stress melting as I read it! My wife has always exuded feminine authority in her wide silk dresses, but more later.

I was delighted to read about Penelope. Lesley is to be congatulated, and Penelope is now under beneficial feminine control and should be required to wear his new uniform seven days a week.

I can remember the 1950s and staying with my great aunts, when I was required to wear a kilt on Sundays as their theory was that boys were better behaved in kilts, and when I protested about the draughts I was given a pair of silk bloomers to wear underneath! I note in your Christmas 2000 advice to Jackie, who feels the need to be properly bloomered, that in the cold weather you wear long thermal underwear with slacks. This sounds like a nice practical outfit. As you say, one feels the cold as one gets older.

My life changed last year, when I was made redundant from my job in a centrally heated office in London, and I am now self-employed with my own office on a rather cold estate. Just before last winter I was in the kitchen washing up, and properly pinafored of course, when my wife walked in as I was finishing, and instead of undoing me, held on to my pinafore straps and said she wanted a word with me while I was under proper feminine discipline and control (am I ever out of it?)

My wife informed me that with my new lifestyle working locally she could not risk me getting pneumonia, and that she was going to buy for me some traditional woollen underwear, and would I wear it to please her? I thought, 'If Miss MacDonald recommends it then who am I, a mere man, to argue?' and my reply was, 'Yes Dear, of course'.

A couple of weeks later the weather turned cold and my wife called out that she was behind with the washing and would I wear a set of underwear that she had laid out on the bed? The underwear looked quite formidable, and was creamy off-white.

I put on the vest - short sleeves and button front. I then picked up the pants and unrolled them, and hey presto - they had legs - they were long pants! I called out to my wife, 'The pants are long ones'.

The response was, 'Of course - don't be tiresome, just put them on'. I struggled into the long pants and fastened the buttons. I then put on a pair of woollen socks and clipped on my sock suspenders.

My wife walked in with full feminine authority and said, 'They're very sensible and very smart'. 'But they are long pants', I wailed, feeling very silly. 'What will people think if they know I am wearing long woollen underpants?'

'Very sensible is the most obvious reply', said my wife. 'Now put on your suit and let's hear no more about it'.

A week later I congratulated my wife on her wisdom. I felt good in my woolly lining and at the end of winter I had not had a single cold, let alone pneumonia! I felt more relaxed and submissive, and all I have had to put up with is a bit of gentle teasing from my sister-in-law about being under proper petticoat control!
Yours sincerely,

John

I like the sound of your wife, John. She is indeed very sensible. A lot of men do think that not being dressed warmly enough in winter is very 'manly', and need a partner like yours to make sure that they are wearing nice warm underwear. Since female winter underwear is generally softer and warmer than male, many wives make their husbands wear ladies' long undies and tights in winter to prevent colds.

When they realise that their hubbies are much more pliable and docile as a result, then they have inadvertently discovered the great benefits of petticoat discipline. Soon they are replacing all hubbie's underwear with frilly knickers and pretty, lace-trimmed vests, and we have another convert.

I wonder if those long ban-lon knickers, in lacy knit and with a few rows of attractive lace around the leg, are still manufactured? They were very warm on chilly days up north. If any readers can give me more information, please write.
Susan