through the summer. The collars and cuffs at-
sailor tach just like the collar and cuffs of your suits. Indeed your white tunics can be turned into sailor dresses very easily with sailor collars and cuffs."
Carol naturally would not speak back to his own mother, he had been subdued too long, but I could not keep quiet.
"Do you mean, Aunty, that you are going to keep us in dresses all summer? They are so girlish and sissy looking, and even the colors are not boyish. And having to wear pinafores over them, as if tunics were not enough, and now you say we shall have to wear a petticoat under them. Why, we might as well be girls, especially with those awful full bloomers. It is not fair at all. Just a while ago I was in long trousers!" Aunty Louise said, "Really, Richard, you are insolent questioning me about what
wear
you
you
will
in
Your parents have put Barbara and you my charge and I will dress you as I see fit. You have too much spirit or you would wear what had somewas given you and be thankful that thing to wear. And these tunics are NOT girls' dresses, but are suitable clothes for all children, boys and girls, the names given them, tunics, smocks, smock-frocks or even dresses do not
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really matter. When I was young such clothes were worn by all boys and girls. There is only one way to take too much spirit out of a boy, and that is to put him into tight consets. And my corsetiere will have to pay a visit and measure you for a real tight lacing corset, that will take the spirit out of you and teach you proper manners for children."
That is the way jugation in the Victorian and Edwardian days. First in the nursery by his nurse or Nanny and Mother, then in his preparatory school and finally in his public school. He was bullied and caned into subjugation until he was almost a man of twenty-one. Part of his treatment was being in the hands of females for many years in the nursery, where he was subject to dress discipline, being attended to with his sisters, watching each other dress and undress and doing their intimate functions, being bathed, etc., in front
the male was kept in sub-
of one another, being ruled by older sisters, by Nanny the Nurse, by aunts and Mother, and then either having a Governess, if educated at home, or going to a preparatory school, run by females, often called Dame So and So's Academy, then when he does go to public school he is buttied by his peers, for whom he may have to fag, and often be
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