Lesley has responded to readers' requests and sent me some more pictures of Penelope, and this time poor Penelope has been ordered to display her voluminous undies for the interest of readers. Here is Lesley's letter and the accompanying photographs:

Dear Susan,
 
Well, I don't know what to say really, I'm astounded at the correspondence my letter and pictures of Penelope have generated. He is mortified, poor thing, now that he has become such a 'petticoat celebrity!' I had intended to write soon with an account of our visit to Jacksons of Reading, and of a very interesting morning at my friend Vanessa's house, after she had been introduced to Penelope's plight and applied some of my ideas herself. However, in fairness to all your correspondents I thought I should first address some of the points raised. I really must thank all those, including yourself, who have made such complimentary comments about my
petticoating methods. As I'm sure you will appreciate, it has been a long, patient process to arrive at what you kindly refer to as 'the most thoroughly petticoated man you have ever seen', and the approval of fellow devotees of P.D. is most gratifying!

With regard to Maid Angela's comment that his short working uniform is too humiliating - well, that is, of course, the whole point! He might as well do the housework in jeans and T-shirt otherwise. He feels so vulnerable in his short overall, and so ridiculous in his frilly tabard, that he never, for a second, can forget his status and the humiliation he is suffering. You should just see how quickly he hangs out the washing! It is strange, and I am sure other 'petticoat governesses' have found the same, that the greater the humiliation, the better the subsequent sex when I release him. After a good 'showing off' in his show costume to a group of friends, or a day spent being teased and tormented in his working uniform, he is always superb, I suppose desparately trying to re-assert his manhood!

As for Bob's comment that he doesn't see how petticoat discipline works, and why the reluctant man just doesn't walk out - I'm afraid you really don't get it do you, Bob? In my case, and I'm sure many others, Penelope stays because he has no choice. We have a succesful, reasonably well-off lifestyle, which by years of careful, step by step manipulation I totally control. Where is he going to go? I hardly think he is going to risk losing everything by walking away and telling everyone that the reason is that his wife makes him act as a housemaid! As Susan suggests, we have, in our own way, a loving relationship, and maybe he does secretly enjoy some of the more private parts of his petticoated lifestyle as a refuge away from the stresses of running a sizeable
business.

A number of correspondents were curious as to what I make Penelope wear under his skirts and pinnies.I thought I would write and tell you, then I had a better idea, why don't I show you ?  We had quite a scene when I explained to Penelope what I had in mind, but I was adamant, and the threat of a weekend on loan to my mother, which he hates, convinced him that he'd better co-operate. So here are the pictures of the petticoating and pinaforing of Penelope in one of his 'show costumes' - enjoy!
Yours in petticoat power, and good luck with your great web site.

Lesley, Camberley.