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plasticpacamac wrote: January 26th, 2025, 7:50 pm My mother also took ideas for my treatment from those posted in womens' periodicals of the period by mothers describing how they disciplined their boys using clothing control. Among others inflicted on me was the wearing of kilts as "Sunday best" and of cardigans for school wear. As authentic boys kilts were hard to find and expensive, I was taken to the girl's department of a local clothing outlet and fitted with a girl's tartan skirt as a substitute and girl's blouse to go with it, girl's knickers to go underneath and long white socks. At least these were only worn for "Sunday best"whereas the gfrl's cardigans had to be worn with my regulation everyday school uniform long trousers and blazer.

plasticpacamac wrote: February 23rd, 2025, 4:33 pm Hmm, in view of Annabel Cagoule's concluding comment I should add that my mother later found a source of secondhand authentic kilts at an affordable price so I no longer had the humiliating experience of wearing a girl's skirt. She also took advice on what should be worn under the kilt and was told surprisingly that boys of my age were given schoolgirl's bottle-green gym knickers to wear as more practical and offering more support than boys' gym shorts. Years later I revisited online the question of what kilted boys of the period wore under their kilts and indeed read that the most practical solution commonly used then was indeed what I was made to wear. Public embarrasment at wearing a kilt in public when i actually lived in the south of England was avoided by my mother's rule that I must wear my plastic pacamac when out of doors at all times whether raining or not!