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;Chapter 09 - High heeled and happy   


;Chapter 08 - Pregnancy, and after 
We were advancing slowly but surely along three or four separate roads, all leading to my goal. The reduction of the waist and its subjugation; the treatment for the hands and feet with gloves and high heels, hair and make up and lastly, body adornment in the shape of piercings. In each and every field we had made progress, but possibly the most important of which was the breaking down of those inhibitions she had had implanted in her against these things.
 
Soon our progress was halted, as Ethel told me her pregnancy was now beginning to take its natural course and the lower part of her body was expanding. So before long the corsets had to be loosened, bit by bit, until at last they were open about 6 inches at the bottom and about 3 inches at the top. She said she found them a great help, as they supported her adequately with comfort, while they also helped to retain some semblance of her figure, holding up her now fully developed breasts, so she continued to wear them.  


We often left our rooms at the week ends and went home to Cambridge, when she usually rode on the pillion behind me. I remember of the last journeys we made, when we collected a nail in the back tyre, but managed to get the A.A. to take me to Godmanchester, where I picked up a spare to finish the journey home.
However, one inhibition we did not overcome, or at least nature defeated us, was the improvement of the bust. After our daughter's birth Ethel's breasts had developed magnificently as nature intended they should do and were used for nine months in the natural way, and while this was being done they retained their shape and size, so I had hopes that at least some of their development might be permanent. We were dis ­appointed, for they slowly began to shrink. back to their former insignificant size, despite all we could do to stimulate them by devices advertised for that purpose.


Also one week end, in the winter of 1929, we paid a week end visit to her relations in March, going by train. Her corsets were already coming open, but I had put on my corsets and Ethel had laced them tightly, but whether it was Ethel's cooking good food, I cannot say, or the fact that I had recently recovered from a very severe attack of gastric influenza, but I found the pressure was unbearable and I had to un ­lace myself. I now think that the continual vomiting from the influenza was the beginning of what developed later, and was only recently diagnosed as a hiatus hernia. Never more, after that date was I able to stand pressure under the lower ribs, where most of the modern corsets began at that time.
I had read in London Life where doctors at the beginning of the century, when a good bosom was a female asset and a necessity of fashion, had advocated the piercing of the nipples and the insertion of gold rings therein to stimulate and help forward the development of well shaped breasts. I can see that they might stimulate the wearer, or possibly the male member of the union, to sexual activity, and no doubt to the stage where sexual union would produce a pregnancy and in that way certainly enlarge the breasts. In fact this is what most of the pills and potions advertised actually seemed to do.


Ethel's being higher, came over the ribs and not under them, and before long I ordered a pair of the black Diagonal Seam corsets for myself and found that as they bridged the gap under the rib cage, they were much more comfortable. Furthermore, as they did not confine my hips much, I could now bend in that part of my body. I did find that they gave me great support, I think held my diaphragm in place. I began to wear them all the time, finding great comfort from the extra warmth around my waist.
Then I suggested to Ethel that she might allow me to perform the operation of piercing her nipples with this idea in vice, she refused, point blank to have her breasts, as she said, mutilated in this fashion. Even the high busted corsets did very little to help to enlarge the breasts in any way, except that they did push up her chest a little and so made what she had more prominently displayed. Eventually, continual wear of these corsets, with the reduction of the lower waist, did expand her upper chest, to improve the shape of her bust considerably, but the breasts themselves remained small. Most of the surplus flesh was pushed down on to her hips, which became more prominent and well curved.


Later I ordered a special pair, made to measure, with much longer busks, even higher on the chest, even more heavily boned, with a 24 waist, which allowed bending of the hips, but held the middle part of my body stiff and rigid, and these too, I began to wear regularly, deriving great benefit from this practice. After wearing these two pairs of corsets regularly for some years, I found, like many of the female correspondents, when I took them off, how lost I felt without them, the feeling as if one was dropping to pieces. One missed the support and compression and restriction imposed so much that I was only too glad to put them on again. I even took to wearing them at night in bed, with Ethel's agreement.
She refused and scorned to wear any artificial aids, which at that time, except for surgical reasons, were not so commonly used as they became later, when accentuated busts were in fashion, so that many women like Ethel had to improve themselves in that way with rubber bust forms. But at that time, her natural inhibition prevented from doing anything practical about it, which at that time would have been unfashionable anyhow.


In fact, at a later date, I had a very special pair of corsets made, to confine me from thighs to just below the neck. The busks themselves were 18 inches long, made specially for the job. The corsets were partly on the lines of the other pairs I had, in black sateen over white coutil, with a 25 inch waist. The back was a good 3 feet in length, and they were extremely heavily boned all the way, so they weighed several pounds. The busks came up half way on the chest, and above that was a section about 5 inches higher, with front lacing to be threaded in place. Straps came over the ┬¡ shoulders and could be adjusted with buckles in front of the corsets. Below the busks was a further section of lacing carrying down half the length of the thighs. Hip and chest measurements were made to measure. There were 3 pairs of suspenders, but here I departed from the diagonal seam, for two suspenders crossed over from the waist, like the first reducing corset I had, for I found they, controlled the abdomen to a flat finish. The laces were in three sections. Chest, waist and hips.  
Having tried the old spoon busk style corsets, we decided there were some things about them we liked, such as the length and height; but many we did not agree with, especially the way they made the abdominal regions protrude. It was obvious with this shape that there was a downwards pressure on the womb and Ethel began to notice this.


To wear them I put my arms through the straps, then did up the long busk studs, one by one, nine in all. Then the bottom laces were threaded through and pulled up tightly, after which the lacing above the busks was threaded and pulled tight. The front was now done, and the struggle to lace the back began. First the part over the shoulders then the waist and lastly the hips were laced. Then back again to the top, waist and hips again until they were closed all the way and I was a living fashion plate. It was difficult to get at all the laces, and I liked Ethel to lace me in, as the job took well over half an hour. Finally the straps over the arms were pulled tight and buckled down. I was now a corseted dummy, hardly able to walk, quite unable to sit, or reach down to the floor or my feet. Standing or to lie flat was the only possibility, and it was difficult to get up from the couch or bed.  
So I now had a corset made on the Straight Front model lines, which flattened the abdomen and pushed the internal organs backwards but not down. They were quite as high at the front under the breasts, but not so low over the hips as the previous pair, so
Allowing more freedom to bend here. They were ordered with an inch further reduction at the waist, so bringing the new waist down to 16 inches, of pink sateen, lined with white coutil. Also very heavily boned.


To make it even more rigid, I put on the last long pair over these terrors, then laced them tightly. Then on top I put the first pair of diagonal seams and laced them tightly too. Three pairs of stiffly boned corsets were new around my waist and I had nine pairs of suspenders pulling them down with three heavy busks in front, bending was now impossible in the slightest. My waist was as hard and inflexible as wood.
Since they were so high and stiff it took a long time lacing them in, with plenty of squeezing and kissing to give her the necessary incentive to go on. She was already an addict and in fact did urge me on periodically after each adjustment of the laces, a walk round the room, tottering in her high heels, admiring her gorgeously wasp like figure in the mirror in between, before urging me on again until we had got her waist really hard and firm. Next day she would come to me and say, "Do you like the feel of your little Ethel's little waist? Do you think she is a good girl to suffer like this and what shall I have for it? Kiss me, then do you think you can pull them in a bit more, as they have settled down, so that I feel that I can stand some more, in fact I would love to be tighter if possible. The sensation is a growing upon me."


I actually went out done up like up like this, but after a short time I was only too happy to get home and remove the two upper pairs, then the corset suits. After that my old pair felt very easy to bend in. They were real instruments of torture, but so thrilling to wear. I would wear them when I felt like it, once with a long pair of laced boots up to the knees, with 5 inch heels. Walking was a great experience.
I did not want much asking, so again I ran up and down the laces, pulling them in little by little, while she pressed them in at the sides. Gradually they were closing in at the back. After another pause, she said, "Pull them in now, as hard as you can. I am sure that you can manage to close them now, and I am certain I can stand it. It feels delightful and thrilling to be laced so hard. I never thought it would but I can admit that it is now so. These do not press down, but they are arching my back in more than before and that is quite painful at present but I can stand it."


Now we were halted with the waist reduction, there was no reason why we should not advance in another direction, and so do some more piercings. I think it was in London Life that I first read of women with two or three piercings in different parts the cars, other than the lobes, such as the tops of the cars, the sides and the little tabs in front of the ear itself. Also the possibility of wearing two pendants, or a stud and a pendant. I brought this up to Ethel, and as she hadn't suffered from the first piercings, she was not adverse to the idea of a second piercing at the top and another one in each lobe for a pendant and stud fitting when required.
So I exerted my strength, crossing the laces over at the waist, pulling as hard as I could, with strong pulls, seeing the laces slipping through the eyelets, until they were closed from top to bottom. On her insistence, I tied them tightly and surveyed the result. Her hands went to her tortured waist and she nodded with satis ┬¡faction when she felt the gap at the back was now closed.  


However it wasn't quite as easy, for while she was not against it, she didn't see why she should have it done. So again I coaxed her she consented to have it done. When she was prepared for the job, I sat her down in front, while I decided just where I would put the new piercing, or if I was lucky, piercings in each ear.
A delightfully tiny waisted figure was there before my eyes, panting in little gasps in her upper chest, but her shape was nice and flat over the abdomen with her posterior well pushed out to the rear below the waist, with a deep arch inward at the waist. Also they had made her waist slightly oval so that it was smaller when looked at from front or rear with a bigger measurement when looked at from the side.
It had taken a few days to get them fully closed, and now she had a waist of 18 inches in which she slept, day and night. But this day and might wear was rough on the cheap corsets so that they did not last long before they began to give way at the seams under the terrific strains imposed by the tension of the laces. This allowed the waist measurement to increase slightly, beyond what it had been. But as they were relatively cheap we always had another pair on order, in the making, which usually took two weeks, ready to change into, when they gave way, beyond simple repairs. Sometimes we had them in pink sateen, sometimes in black sateen or even coutil, and with each new pair the lacing had to be done again to recover the ground lost by the stretching and wear of the old ones. Except for minor repairs we did not bother to keep them in use but discarded them. Gradually we reduced her waist from 18 inches to 17½ inches and then down to a tenuous 17 inches. They were quite inexpensive from this Mail Order firm and made fairly well, although I guess they had so other client as small even then although they were now really specialists in wasp waisted corsets


One pair was definitely to be done in the upper edge, where Indian women often have them done, so they can wear a jewel right across the ear. The other place was on the outer corner of the lobes so the two pendants could swing free from one another. Then I carefully cleaned each ear lobe with surgical spirit while the hand piercer, with its silver, and steel point was being sterilised, in boiling anti -septic solution, after which I carefully picked the pieces out with a pair of tweezers and dropped them into the surgical spirit, with the gold sleepers. The instrument was then assembled into the handle. For the other piercing I had made a pair out of fairly thick silver wire.
Now although Ethel appeared to be resigned to the restrictions of a tiny waist and even in the inevitable pain that went to its development, in fact she now began to take a delight in her wasp like figure, and she could well be proud of her achievement, nevertheless she would not really exhibit her figure in public, except on rare visits perhaps to her dross makers, where they would go into ecstatic praises about her figure, all saying that they wished they could get a waist like it; which they could, if they went about it the right way, and threw away their elastic girdles.
Everything was now ready and she sat patiently waiting for me to begin. I had a tube of ethyl chloride, which I sprayed over the places to be pierced, one by one, as a local anaesthetic. Then with a cork behind the selected spot I approached the place and then with a quick, firm push, drove it in, and saw the needle point penetrate followed by the silver tube, right up to the handle. The sleeper was put into the end of the tube and pushed forward until it was right through and I could fasten it up. So one was quickly done, with very little complaint, so that she was quite willing to present the other ear to be pierced in a similar place and fashion. So very swiftly I had put a second piercing in each lobe, with the pearl drops on as before.


There was a little scarlet drop of blood from each, but that soon ceased and after a short time I cleaned it away and then replaced the first original earrings in the old holes. Then I started work on the top rim of her ears. However, these I found were harder to do, as they were through a part which was mainly gristle and not soft flesh. I needed a good really hard push to get them through and I am afraid the first one hurt her quite a bit for she squealed as it went through but she still turned her head for the other ear to be done. Another hard push, another squeal of pain, but the tube was through and the two silver rings were in place through the upper rims of her ears, waiting to be closed up.
Ethel could prove to them that she was quite comfortable in her tiny waisted corsets, her high heels and long tight gloves, but our relatives at home did not approve, and said so. Still it did not seem to affect Ethel's health in any way, so far as I could see she remained remarkably free from illness, while her hair had grown to a good length. nor did she get the trouble in her back any more.
Nor had it spoiled her appetite. People asked if she dieted in any way. The answer is NO! Actually she ate as much as I did, for even, on our slender means we ate well. When in a restaurant, many times I have seem the waiter catch sight of her wasp waist, and then the message goes around the secret telegraph, so that even the cooks make an appearance to see her from the rear on some excuse or other. Then very often I have seen them put an extra large helping in front of her and when it disappeared seen them arguing in amazement as to where she put it all. To them it was a conjuring trick they could not explain.


Everything was cleaned up and she could survey her ears to see what had been done. She said, "Those last two hurt much more than any or the other piercings you did, and I felt them go through but they are done and feel quite all right now."
It was about this time that we made our first visit to the Regent Shoe Stores, down Wardour Street, in London. We had read about it in London Life, seen their adverts inside, and also letters and articles from Mr Stern, on the art of high heel wearing. In the window we saw heels far higher than we ever considered possible to make or wear. Also boots, lacing or buttoning up to the knees or thighs, in gleaming patent leather or kid. However these lovely items cost then from £12 to £20 a pair, and were far beyond our slender means. The window was a real feast of delight.


Her hair had by now grown to a fair length, and she could wind it round in little bums or 'earphones' over each ear. So few people noticed the extra rings she wore in them. Within a few days the new piercings in her ears had settled down healing up quite quickly, but I am afraid the top rings did give trouble for a different reason, for she caught first one then the other several times with her hair comb and pulled them out more than once. They went back O.K., but I decided to change them. So in the end I made her a pair of pearl headed screwed studs, with a little nut at the back. These were fitted through the piercings and soon forgotten.
Nevertheless we entered the store and after looking over the stock and trying on a few pairs, we finally selected a pair with slender heels of 4½ inches or 11 cms high. These were in black patent, costing about £3 -0 -0. Heels of' 10 cms were as little as £1 -10 -0 while heels of 13 cms ran about £4 -0-0, and heels of 15 cms or 6 inches cost six guineas. The ones we chose were a court style, so Mr Stern suggested that he fit them with a pair of instep straps so they could be firmly held on the feet, as Ethel had no ball at the back of her heels to hold court shoes in place, so the straps were in her case a necessity. I admired the gleaming black patent leather and what then appeared to be a remarkably slender heel, but not when compared with the tiny pencil stiletto heels of the late 60s which were made of plastic, instead of wood as were these. Ethel put them on, and they fitted perfectly, but Mr Stern kept them for a short time, so he could get the instep straps fitted. He also took careful measurement of her sizes and when over we came in after years, Mr Stern would immediately remember her size and measurements. This was the first of many visits to the Regent Shoe Stores. Each time we bought a different style and colour, with gradually increased height of heel as Ethel conquered each additional rise, which increase in height increased the prices. We got heels of 12 cms, 13cms and finally a pair of 15 cms or 6 inches high, which was about Ethel's limit, for she only takes a size three, and 6 inches put her right on her toes. 5½ inches or 13 cms was the limit she could manage with case. I have seen her walk all round London for a whole day in heels of this height without complaint. The 6 inch heels were reserved for special occasions as they had great sex appeal. Usually I would put a small rubber heel on them when I got them home, which would add another ½ inch or 0.5 cms on to the height, but I found them wear better so.


Before her confinement, which she had at home in our unfurnished flat, she asked me to take out the two new pairs of ornaments, which I did. But when, some months later I looked for them I found the top pair had apparently grown over. It is certainly a fact as I discovered, that while a piercing can heal through flesh like the lobes, in a week or two, that it takes many months, up to a year, in fact, to establish a permanent hole through gristle.
When we got the first pair of 4½ inch heeled shoes I soon found she was running the heels over very quickly, but the rubbers helped them to wear longer and kept them in good shape. Also I put a little piece of thin leather along one side of the soles to tilt them level, against her natural tilt the other way. One pair of rubber heels lasted about 6 weeks, but through my father, being in the trade, I bought them by the dozen pairs. The first pair of real heels was a great step forward from the ordinary commercial shoes. Their glamorous patent of gleaming quality was excellent, so they wore very well in fact, with repairs when needed. They were in use right up to the beginning of the war.


When I suggested that I do them again she demurred saying that to make the piercings was a very painful job and she would have to think about it. The other pair in the lobes were still there so I put the rings back in them to make sure. Her early piercings were too well established to ever be lost and they gave her no trouble at any time.
Ethel's figure was now exquisitely trim and neat. Her body shape was now well formed and defined at the waist, so that her figure remained a true hour glass for a long time after the corsets had been removed. This was never for very long, only long enough to allow her to take a bath, or sometimes a little intimate love making. There never was any trouble to get them back and fully closed again.
People in our home town got used to her heels, and one would see them automatically look down at her feet, as soon as they saw her approaching. Only rarely did we find anyone wearing heels so high. When she wore a thin frock, with a white leather belt, people would turn and stare after her, although at that time the belt was only fitted loosely round her waist as a rule, but even so, the fact that it was loose could be seen easily, and that the waist underneath was really much smaller than the belt. Then there would be an audible gasp, or murmur of "That Wasp Waist."


After a lot of persuasion I got her to consent to a third piercing in each lobe between the other two. I told her I wanted to have one piercing in each lobe enlarged, so she could wear really savage looking thick rings, or heavy studs in them. The other two piercings were cleared of rings, and after the usual preparation, the needle and tube were driven in up to the handle, to be filled with the sleepers from the previous piercings, which I kept by as ready for use at any time.
Her costume skirts were made to measure. When we would ask for skirts with 18 inch or 17 inch waists, they would query our request, or ask again for it to be confirmed by saying, "What size did you say?" The petersham waist bands of the skirts were fitted with eyelets, so they could be laced on as tightly as possible. Over the skirt she wore a white leather belt I had made; it had a white plastic clasp with holes so that it too could be laced together as tightly an possible, and when it met, I took a little out to make it smaller.


These piercings gave no trouble and in a few weeks were healed through ready for the next stage, which was to enlarge them, I was hoping that one day I could develop holes through which I could push my finger, in other words, a really barbaric pierce.
Thus with her tightly corseted waist, over which the petersham waist band of the skirt was also tightly laced in over the corsets, and over the top was the white leather belt also tightly laced. Her waist was thus held to a rigid size. Over it all she wore a well cut costume jacket, and thus she exhibited a figure beyond compare. On several occasions, not being satisfied that the costume jacket or coat, had been cut in closely enough, I have taken a couple of inches out with darts, while Ethel was out, and she has not suspected what I had done. But the waist shown off was just so much neater to my eyes, and to those of other beholders. So her waist was shown off to a great extent, more than she suspected. I liked it if she did not.


I nearly accomplished my purpose in the end.
After the birth of our daughter, which was not too difficult a time for Ethel, once more Ethel put on her black corsets, and very soon, working to a strict systematic reduction every day, little by little, we got them closed again and her figure was back again to its former wasp like shape. So easy was it now, that I proposed getting some thing smaller for her, with a waist of at least 19 inches.
This time I thought I would try her with a pair specially made for her, this time in the old spoon bask style, a really long pair, even higher at the front and back, also well down over the hips too. They were made this time in pink broche, a kind of brocade with very long busks, about 14 inches long. I had them right up under the armpits and as long over the hips as possible, with elastic inserts to give some freedom of movement in this region. The waist was made 19 inches and the length of the corsets was about two feet.
When the corsets came they were very heavily and as closely boned as possible. We had quite a time threading the long laces in place through the back eyelets. Despite their length, nevertheless they fitted Ethel with remarkable case, and before many days we had got them closed from top to bottom and her waist so reduced by an inch. There was also a section about 6 inches long, below the busks at the front, which had to be threaded and laced up with a short length of lace.
When they were closed Ethel could not sit down in an ordinary chair, as she could not now bend at the hips very much. So she was stiffly held erect. They restricted her much more than the previous pair, but she was now a completely corseted fashion plate, with a tiny wasp like waist; her breasts, which were still well filled, for she had breast fed our daughter for 9 months, were pushed high on her cheat.
Every time, after I had laced her close, I complimented her upon what was now a truly magnificent figure, saying, "Darling Effle! You are a wonderful little wasp waisted wife. Not many men have such a wife. With these long corsets you are really adorable. To think that less than two years ago you were corsetless, waistless, and without the decorations in those dainty ears, more decorated than those of any other woman I know or have seen. You have let me transform you into something I have long dreamed about. Are you sorry that you let me do those things to you?"
She put her arms around my neck and standing on her high heels, pulled me down for a responsive kiss, saying, "Will Darling! I didn't like it at first, but now I have got used to it I don't mind, in fact, in some ways I have got to like it. However, these corsets are really too long for me to do much work, as I cannot bend or stoop in them. Still as long as you love me I am happy to please you."
I clasped her tiny waist and ran my hands up and down the long length of her well steeled and tightly laced body, feeling the steels, which made her so rigidly corseted. It was delightful to see her swaying walk as she tottered carefully on her high heels, with two long pendants swinging from each ear lobe, while her heavily painted lips were pouting for the reception of a well deserved kiss.
Ethel now found that as the size of her waist decreased, the restrictions every time she came to me to put on her corsets in the morning, a job which was now a matter of routine, and then turned her back to me to pull in the laces, that they now caused her quite a lot of pain for a short time ΓÇôΓÇô until she had settled into them.
This settling in took quite a lot of time and I often had to pause several times while lacing her to allow her body to accommodate gradually to the reductions. This process of lace in and wait for it to adjust, went on until the laces were fully closed every day. But by the end the of the day, wearing them fully laced, she would be feeling comfortably loose in them. How wonderful is the human body.
So I suggested that the trouble was, that although her corsets reduced her during the day, her body would expand back again when she was released at night. So the reduction process had to be gone through every day. Therefore the only way to progress painlessly, was to prevent the night expansion of her body and see that it did not occur. If we ever had to make any real reduction from where we were now, she must be prepared to try to wear the corsets all the time, day and night. I had read that this was the proper procedure necessary to train down to a really small waist.
She said, "What do you mean by real reduction? Have I not got down to 19 inches, and is that NOT enough? Do you want me to be cut in two? In any case I prefer my freedom at night, and I could not stand them day and night as well."
I then read her extracts from London Life, where waists were smaller than she had ever recorded, and that she had a long way to go before she was out in two. If other women had done it, why should she not try to emulate them. She said, "Yes, but some of them say that they started training in childhood, and I never wore anything until I married you, and then I only did it to please you, as I had promised."
I told her she could at least try the idea before condemning it so in the end I persuaded her to try them for a night or two and when she had done so for a time she had to admit that she could now almost forget that she was wearing them, for her body adapted itself to the corsets, so the painful process of daily lacing in was over. Besides, this night wear saved time in the mornings for a little extra love making. So from this time she was never out of corsets for any length of time, day or night.
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(Chapter 08) -- Ethel Granger -- (Chapter 10)
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Chapter 09 - High heeled and happy

We were advancing slowly but surely along three or four separate roads, all leading to my goal. The reduction of the waist and its subjugation; the treatment for the hands and feet with gloves and high heels, hair and make up and lastly, body adornment in the shape of piercings. In each and every field we had made progress, but possibly the most important of which was the breaking down of those inhibitions she had had implanted in her against these things.

However, one inhibition we did not overcome, or at least nature defeated us, was the improvement of the bust. After our daughter's birth Ethel's breasts had developed magnificently as nature intended they should do and were used for nine months in the natural way, and while this was being done they retained their shape and size, so I had hopes that at least some of their development might be permanent. We were dis ­appointed, for they slowly began to shrink. back to their former insignificant size, despite all we could do to stimulate them by devices advertised for that purpose.

I had read in London Life where doctors at the beginning of the century, when a good bosom was a female asset and a necessity of fashion, had advocated the piercing of the nipples and the insertion of gold rings therein to stimulate and help forward the development of well shaped breasts. I can see that they might stimulate the wearer, or possibly the male member of the union, to sexual activity, and no doubt to the stage where sexual union would produce a pregnancy and in that way certainly enlarge the breasts. In fact this is what most of the pills and potions advertised actually seemed to do.

Then I suggested to Ethel that she might allow me to perform the operation of piercing her nipples with this idea in vice, she refused, point blank to have her breasts, as she said, mutilated in this fashion. Even the high busted corsets did very little to help to enlarge the breasts in any way, except that they did push up her chest a little and so made what she had more prominently displayed. Eventually, continual wear of these corsets, with the reduction of the lower waist, did expand her upper chest, to improve the shape of her bust considerably, but the breasts themselves remained small. Most of the surplus flesh was pushed down on to her hips, which became more prominent and well curved.

She refused and scorned to wear any artificial aids, which at that time, except for surgical reasons, were not so commonly used as they became later, when accentuated busts were in fashion, so that many women like Ethel had to improve themselves in that way with rubber bust forms. But at that time, her natural inhibition prevented from doing anything practical about it, which at that time would have been unfashionable anyhow.

Having tried the old spoon busk style corsets, we decided there were some things about them we liked, such as the length and height; but many we did not agree with, especially the way they made the abdominal regions protrude. It was obvious with this shape that there was a downwards pressure on the womb and Ethel began to notice this.

So I now had a corset made on the Straight Front model lines, which flattened the abdomen and pushed the internal organs backwards but not down. They were quite as high at the front under the breasts, but not so low over the hips as the previous pair, so Allowing more freedom to bend here. They were ordered with an inch further reduction at the waist, so bringing the new waist down to 16 inches, of pink sateen, lined with white coutil. Also very heavily boned.

Since they were so high and stiff it took a long time lacing them in, with plenty of squeezing and kissing to give her the necessary incentive to go on. She was already an addict and in fact did urge me on periodically after each adjustment of the laces, a walk round the room, tottering in her high heels, admiring her gorgeously wasp like figure in the mirror in between, before urging me on again until we had got her waist really hard and firm. Next day she would come to me and say, "Do you like the feel of your little Ethel's little waist? Do you think she is a good girl to suffer like this and what shall I have for it? Kiss me, then do you think you can pull them in a bit more, as they have settled down, so that I feel that I can stand some more, in fact I would love to be tighter if possible. The sensation is a growing upon me."

I did not want much asking, so again I ran up and down the laces, pulling them in little by little, while she pressed them in at the sides. Gradually they were closing in at the back. After another pause, she said, "Pull them in now, as hard as you can. I am sure that you can manage to close them now, and I am certain I can stand it. It feels delightful and thrilling to be laced so hard. I never thought it would but I can admit that it is now so. These do not press down, but they are arching my back in more than before and that is quite painful at present but I can stand it."

So I exerted my strength, crossing the laces over at the waist, pulling as hard as I could, with strong pulls, seeing the laces slipping through the eyelets, until they were closed from top to bottom. On her insistence, I tied them tightly and surveyed the result. Her hands went to her tortured waist and she nodded with satis ­faction when she felt the gap at the back was now closed.

A delightfully tiny waisted figure was there before my eyes, panting in little gasps in her upper chest, but her shape was nice and flat over the abdomen with her posterior well pushed out to the rear below the waist, with a deep arch inward at the waist. Also they had made her waist slightly oval so that it was smaller when looked at from front or rear with a bigger measurement when looked at from the side. It had taken a few days to get them fully closed, and now she had a waist of 18 inches in which she slept, day and night. But this day and might wear was rough on the cheap corsets so that they did not last long before they began to give way at the seams under the terrific strains imposed by the tension of the laces. This allowed the waist measurement to increase slightly, beyond what it had been. But as they were relatively cheap we always had another pair on order, in the making, which usually took two weeks, ready to change into, when they gave way, beyond simple repairs. Sometimes we had them in pink sateen, sometimes in black sateen or even coutil, and with each new pair the lacing had to be done again to recover the ground lost by the stretching and wear of the old ones. Except for minor repairs we did not bother to keep them in use but discarded them. Gradually we reduced her waist from 18 inches to 17½ inches and then down to a tenuous 17 inches. They were quite inexpensive from this Mail Order firm and made fairly well, although I guess they had so other client as small even then although they were now really specialists in wasp waisted corsets

Now although Ethel appeared to be resigned to the restrictions of a tiny waist and even in the inevitable pain that went to its development, in fact she now began to take a delight in her wasp like figure, and she could well be proud of her achievement, nevertheless she would not really exhibit her figure in public, except on rare visits perhaps to her dross makers, where they would go into ecstatic praises about her figure, all saying that they wished they could get a waist like it; which they could, if they went about it the right way, and threw away their elastic girdles.

Ethel could prove to them that she was quite comfortable in her tiny waisted corsets, her high heels and long tight gloves, but our relatives at home did not approve, and said so. Still it did not seem to affect Ethel's health in any way, so far as I could see she remained remarkably free from illness, while her hair had grown to a good length. nor did she get the trouble in her back any more. Nor had it spoiled her appetite. People asked if she dieted in any way. The answer is NO! Actually she ate as much as I did, for even, on our slender means we ate well. When in a restaurant, many times I have seem the waiter catch sight of her wasp waist, and then the message goes around the secret telegraph, so that even the cooks make an appearance to see her from the rear on some excuse or other. Then very often I have seen them put an extra large helping in front of her and when it disappeared seen them arguing in amazement as to where she put it all. To them it was a conjuring trick they could not explain.

It was about this time that we made our first visit to the Regent Shoe Stores, down Wardour Street, in London. We had read about it in London Life, seen their adverts inside, and also letters and articles from Mr Stern, on the art of high heel wearing. In the window we saw heels far higher than we ever considered possible to make or wear. Also boots, lacing or buttoning up to the knees or thighs, in gleaming patent leather or kid. However these lovely items cost then from £12 to £20 a pair, and were far beyond our slender means. The window was a real feast of delight.

Nevertheless we entered the store and after looking over the stock and trying on a few pairs, we finally selected a pair with slender heels of 4½ inches or 11 cms high. These were in black patent, costing about £3 -0 -0. Heels of' 10 cms were as little as £1 -10 -0 while heels of 13 cms ran about £4 -0-0, and heels of 15 cms or 6 inches cost six guineas. The ones we chose were a court style, so Mr Stern suggested that he fit them with a pair of instep straps so they could be firmly held on the feet, as Ethel had no ball at the back of her heels to hold court shoes in place, so the straps were in her case a necessity. I admired the gleaming black patent leather and what then appeared to be a remarkably slender heel, but not when compared with the tiny pencil stiletto heels of the late 60s which were made of plastic, instead of wood as were these. Ethel put them on, and they fitted perfectly, but Mr Stern kept them for a short time, so he could get the instep straps fitted. He also took careful measurement of her sizes and when over we came in after years, Mr Stern would immediately remember her size and measurements. This was the first of many visits to the Regent Shoe Stores. Each time we bought a different style and colour, with gradually increased height of heel as Ethel conquered each additional rise, which increase in height increased the prices. We got heels of 12 cms, 13cms and finally a pair of 15 cms or 6 inches high, which was about Ethel's limit, for she only takes a size three, and 6 inches put her right on her toes. 5½ inches or 13 cms was the limit she could manage with case. I have seen her walk all round London for a whole day in heels of this height without complaint. The 6 inch heels were reserved for special occasions as they had great sex appeal. Usually I would put a small rubber heel on them when I got them home, which would add another ½ inch or 0.5 cms on to the height, but I found them wear better so.

When we got the first pair of 4½ inch heeled shoes I soon found she was running the heels over very quickly, but the rubbers helped them to wear longer and kept them in good shape. Also I put a little piece of thin leather along one side of the soles to tilt them level, against her natural tilt the other way. One pair of rubber heels lasted about 6 weeks, but through my father, being in the trade, I bought them by the dozen pairs. The first pair of real heels was a great step forward from the ordinary commercial shoes. Their glamorous patent of gleaming quality was excellent, so they wore very well in fact, with repairs when needed. They were in use right up to the beginning of the war.

Ethel's figure was now exquisitely trim and neat. Her body shape was now well formed and defined at the waist, so that her figure remained a true hour glass for a long time after the corsets had been removed. This was never for very long, only long enough to allow her to take a bath, or sometimes a little intimate love making. There never was any trouble to get them back and fully closed again. People in our home town got used to her heels, and one would see them automatically look down at her feet, as soon as they saw her approaching. Only rarely did we find anyone wearing heels so high. When she wore a thin frock, with a white leather belt, people would turn and stare after her, although at that time the belt was only fitted loosely round her waist as a rule, but even so, the fact that it was loose could be seen easily, and that the waist underneath was really much smaller than the belt. Then there would be an audible gasp, or murmur of "That Wasp Waist."

Her costume skirts were made to measure. When we would ask for skirts with 18 inch or 17 inch waists, they would query our request, or ask again for it to be confirmed by saying, "What size did you say?" The petersham waist bands of the skirts were fitted with eyelets, so they could be laced on as tightly as possible. Over the skirt she wore a white leather belt I had made; it had a white plastic clasp with holes so that it too could be laced together as tightly an possible, and when it met, I took a little out to make it smaller.

Thus with her tightly corseted waist, over which the petersham waist band of the skirt was also tightly laced in over the corsets, and over the top was the white leather belt also tightly laced. Her waist was thus held to a rigid size. Over it all she wore a well cut costume jacket, and thus she exhibited a figure beyond compare. On several occasions, not being satisfied that the costume jacket or coat, had been cut in closely enough, I have taken a couple of inches out with darts, while Ethel was out, and she has not suspected what I had done. But the waist shown off was just so much neater to my eyes, and to those of other beholders. So her waist was shown off to a great extent, more than she suspected. I liked it if she did not.

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