I am totally in favour of husbands being completely submissive and obedient to their wives. I am glad to say that my husband suits me perfectly in this respect, thanks to the way he was brought up by his mother. On the other hand I feel making him wear baby clothes, pinafores, bibs and frilly dresses only makes a man look ridiculous and does not really reflect any credit on his wife.

In my view, the proper time for a man to be trained to be respectful, submissive and obedient to women is when he is a boy. At that stage petticoat discipline can be very valuable and both my husband and my brother experienced this in one form or another with excellent results.

My brother is four years younger than me, and from quite an early age he was subjected to petticoat discipline by my mother to curb his wilder spirits and to instil demure behaviour in him. Petticoats and girls’ knickers were a regular part of his dress, and undies that were too small for me were passed on to him. At first he used to protest and struggle and try to take them off, but my mother stopped this by putting him across her knee and giving him half a dozen strokes across the seat of his schoolgirl knickers with a leather strap. She would then secure his arms behind his back for several hours to prevent him removing his girlish garments.

Later he was subjected to being dressed in schoolgirl uniform, gymslip, blouse and knickers. I often played 'schools' with him when he was dressed up like this, and if he was a naughty girl he used to get the strap across his knickers. In my brother's case this sort of discipline has led to him becoming a very satisfactory husband for my sister-in-law. I know she rules him strictly, and he is very attentive and obedient.

As far as my husband is concerned, his mother brought him up in much the same way except that instead of petticoats she used corsets to train him. He was made to wear corsets every day from the age of 10, at first a firm elastic girdle to get him used to the feeling of having his figure controlled, and then later he was put into boned corsets which were very tightly laced. Naturally, if he protested he was given the cane.

The result of his training was that not only did he develop a very attractive demeanour and a submissive character, he also had a slim waist, almost like a girl's. I found this very attractive, and when my mother-in-law told me later about his training she suggested I should go on making him wear corsets after we were married.

In fact I do, and he submits to it very well. We are extremely happy, but as we have only been married a short time we have no children yet. We are both agreed, however, that if we have boys we shall train them in corsets and petticoats while they are young.
I am convinced this is the right way to produce obedient, submissive husbands. Petticoats and corsets suit boys, and have an excellent disciplinary effect on them at a stage when they need it most.

B.C. (Mrs.), Dublin