Ray walked through the crowded aisles of Cashmon's Army-Navy Store. It was a favorite place for him to find unusual items for his unusal avocation - his role of Master Ray, Dominant to a small clientele of submissive women with whom he had occasional sessions, always at their behest.
Cashmon's was on the outskirts of town, along a freight rail line and some thinly occupied light industrial buildings on the state highway where the city began to turn to country. As he sauntered up the rows of old military uniforms and equipment and oddities that Cashmon stocked, he could hear Cashmon himself hobbling behind him on his one good leg, the other crippled leg scraping the floor. Cashmon was Army surplus himself, wounded in the early days of Vietnam.
"Can I help you find anything?" The old man asked.
"No, just browsing around for now." Ray answered, knowing the old man would trail him through the store as he perused the merchandise.
It was the same thing every time he came here. Sometimes Cashmon was helpful; sometimes a nuisance.
When Ray stopped to look at a half dozen woolen longjohns displayed haphazardly on old hangers, the old man laughed and said, "Those are one of a kind, that's for sure."
Ray took the conversational bait and asked "How so?"
"They were made for the Army's Antarctica station back in the early 60's but they were defective." Cashmon began. "The soldiers couldn't wear the damn things for more than fifteen minutes before they began to itch like crazy." He laughed. "The company that made them put some kind of fibers in them that were supposed to hold heat and fight the cold but the special fibers had some kinda itchy effect on the skin that made them useless because the soldiers would tear the damn things off before they could get the rest of their arctic gear on because of the itchin'." The old man said.
Ray fingered the material of one of the longjohns. It was a coarse wool alright but nothing worse than any old army sweater, it seemed. But even as he fingered the sleeve of the longjohn for just a minute or two, he could feel an irritation on his fingertips. He removed his hand from the garment and turned to Cashmon "Is it toxic?" He asked, rubbing his affected fingertips together.
"No, it's just damn itchy." The old man cackled. "The boys at McMurdo called them the Itchy Suit."
"How much you want for them?" Ray asked.
"I'm askin' fifteen bucks. Those're collectors items." Cashmon answered.
"You got any small sizes?" Ray asked.
"Check 'em, I think there's one small size. They are supposed to fit close to the skin. That's the hell of it." He laughed.
Ray checked through the longjohns and found one that was marked "S" and he took it down and examined it. It would be perfect for Jacinta, he thought. "I'll take this one."
Ray tried doing some internet research looking for information on the "itchy suit" the military had purchased fifty years ago but could find nothing. He knew it was only a matter of time until Jacinta, one of his submissives, contacted him for a session. She was due by his reckoning of the last time he saw her. Sure enough, a few weeks later, she called.
"Master Ray?" she asked quietly over her cell phone, the background noise of some public place behind her on the airwaves.
"Jacinta." He answered. "What can I do for you?"
"I would like to see you, Sir." She paused. "It's been a helluva week for me."
"And you need treatment, Jacinta?" Ray asked clinically.
"Yes, Sir. I need treatment very badly." Jacinta replied with a sigh.
"I have something for you, dear. Something I picked up with you especially in mind." Ray said.
"Oh, lovely, Sir. When can I see you?" She answered in a more upbeat tone of voice over the background noise near her.
"Immediately." he answered simply.
"Yes, Sir, I can be there in twenty minutes." She said quickly.
"I will be waiting, Jacinta."
"Thank you so much, Sir." Jacinta rang off.
Almost exactly twenty minutes later he saw Jacinta's coupe pull up in the drive in front of his house. The doorbell rang and he answered it after letting her wait for two minutes.
"Hello, Master Ray." Jacinta said with a small smile and a downward glance of her eyes. She was carrying a large athletic duffel that he knew from experience contained some of her own fetish wear and equipment.
He brought her into the foyer and he took the bag from her and placed it aside. "You may not need this today." He said and led her into the house to what was formerly a large study room that he used for sessions.
"I've been shaking all the way over here, thinking about you." She said. "I've had a very tough week, just got back in town from business, and, well, Master, I need discipline." She said looking him squarely in the eyes.
Jacinta stood there in a black business suit of short jacket over a white blouse, knee length skirt that hugged her hips, with bare legs, and expensive high heeled pumps. Ray admired her businesswoman beauty. She was some combination of Cuban and Mediterranean extraction, with thick black hair that she usually contained in a coif but when she let it down during their time together was overflowing and wild. Her body type was mesomorphic, athletic but fulsome with big breasts, wide hips, a hemispherical ass, and toned legs with finely muscled calves and nicely turned ankles. She looked magnificent naked without further adornment.
He brought her a small snifter of the expensive brandy she favored. She sipped it and it had the usual calming effect as the warm liquid worked its way inside her. "Thank you, Sir." She said, taking a second sip.
"You said you needed discipline, girl?" he asked her.
She took another quick sip of the brandy. "Oh, yes, Sir, I do." She said directly to him.
"Very good, Jacinta. Why don't you disrobe for me. As I said, I have something special for you."
She quickly put the snifter down on a nearby table top and began unbuttoning her jacket and her blouse, rolling them off her shoulders to drop them to the floor, unzipping her skirt, letting it slide to the floor and kicking it aside while keeping her heels on. Then she reached back and unclasped her heavily wired brassiere, shamelessly exposing her astounding breasts for him, pulled down her delicate sheer black panty and kicked it away with her well-shod foot. Her last preparation was to undo her tied-up hair and with a soft shake of her head the waves of black hair fell down around her shoulders, framing her face so that it appeared she looked out from a halo of lustrous ebony curtains. She stood before him naked except for the expensive high heels and placed her hands behind her back, looking at the floor. With her olive complexion and her incredible physical blessings, she appeared as a goddess before her Master.
"If you've had a hard week, pet, you may finish your brandy while I get your gift." Ray said and left the room.
Ray purposely took his time getting the itchy suit from a hall closet. As he re-approached the study, he could see Jacinta naked through a hall mirror, sipping the last of her brandy. "She is magnificent." He thought to himself. "Let's hope the itchy suit is up to the job tonight."
When he re-entered the study, she looked up at him, then down at her shoes. Ray held out the hangered itchy suit to Jacinta. "This is your gift."
She looked puzzled by the old longjohns which seemed even smaller next to her zaftig frame. "This is my uniform, Sir?" She asked, sounding deflated by the reality of Master's "gift."
"Yes, I think you will enjoy it quite a lot tonight." He answered.
She took the hanger hook in her fingers and examined the longjohns dubiously. "You really want me to wear this tonight, Master?"
"Oh, yes, I do, dear." He answered simply.
Jacinta did a quick half-curtsey with head bowed down and said "Then I shall wear it for you, Master."
While Jacinta kicked off her heels and began fussing to squeeze into the small one-piece suit, Ray went to a tall antique armoire in the corner of the study and began taking off a long coil and several shorter coils of thick, gleaming white nylon rope. He contemplated utilizing a large ball gag for Jacinta but decided quickly that he wanted to be able to hear her voice when the effect of the itchy suit began to make its unique quality apparent on her naked skin. When he turned back to her, Jacinta was wearing the itchy suit and stepping back into her pumps.