Jacqueline in Leicester; 18 November 2016,
Interviewer Hi, thanks for meeting me. How did you first find out about our figure training project?
Jackie I found your questionnaire a few days ago and the speakers at the Leeds conference encouraged me. I felt straight away that I should send my story. I never would have thought to do such a thing but I hope that my story will help other women to get the pleasure I've got.
Interviewer Please tell me your story. How old are you and when did you first start training your figure? Shall I name you in my report as Jackie?
Jackie Call me Jackie. I'm 42 years old and was widowed in 2012 at the age of 38. My first husband was a steady man but unexciting and once I left him for a fling with a more exciting man. But it didn't last and I went back to the marriage. He wasn't an imaginative lover and not suggestive. Then he died after an accident at work.
Interviewer I'm sorry to hear that. Whatever the state of a marriage, a sudden death is a shock.
Jackie Yeah, it was But then I met another man after about a year and we were married on my fortieth birthday. My second husband is Frank; short for Francis. He's always suggesting new way to get pleasure and good sensations especially in bed but also in everyday life. You know, trips and places to see and nice things to buy.
I lost weight deliberately for the wedding. I'd always been a size 12 but at 5ft 4in I felt tubby. My bust was and is 36B but my waist was a bit sloppy and my tummy was slack as well. If I held my waist in by my muscles, it was probably around 26-28 inches; maybe 30 inches depending on the time of the month and how much I'd been eating. But I never measured it, because I knew it would disappoint me.
[Little laugh]
I'd worn girdles ever since I was a girl. In the 1980s and early 90s I wore real girdles with suspenders but later I just wore light panty girdles with flower patterns - they seem to be called tummy shapers now - or else just control briefs or control tights.
I always liked the feel of support stockings, too, especially when they came available in nice colours and thinner fabric but didn't often wear suspenders during my first marriage.
I had a drawer in which I'd kept all my lingerie and corsetry over the years including two girdles I'd never worn. One was a Berlei high waist in black with a side zip and the other a long leg high waist with a front zip and suspenders inside the legs, in white. Both were very firm and would control my waist - but I never wore them once during my first marriage.
Interviewer So how did you get to wear them?
Jackie For the wedding, I decided to wear the Berlei girdle but on a trip to Manchester I saw a really firm American girdle called Always-21 and bought it. As soon as I got home I tried it on and it was a struggle. It was (it still is) nearly 18 inches long and fitted from under my bottom right up to my bust with a side zip over a row of hooks and eyes. It has six suspenders and light boning around the waist to stop it from rolling. It is very firm over my tummy with no stretch at all and really holds my hips and bottom. It was brilliant white in colour.
I also bought a long line strapless bra at the same time. It has a 2-inch cuff at the waist and fastens at the back. When I put them on with some nice creamy support stockings, I felt really covered and controlled. Encased sort of. I was excited all through the wedding and worried in case he thought they looked old fashioned and matronly.
[Little laugh]
The long bra over the girdle gave me a specially tight waist - and a nice shape over my hips. I felt I had a girlish shape and I loved it. We hadn't talked about this sort of thing at all although we'd made love and knew each other pretty well.
Interviewer What did he think about your outfit? Did he like it?
Jackie I needn't have worried because he was delighted. In the hotel room later he lay me down and stroked me and kissed me all over and we made love with both of us partly dressed. Gradually he undressed himself completely but he left me in the tight undies and we both enjoyed the slight restriction they made on our movements.
From that day, I've always worn a girdle or something of the sort. Every day. Usually my girdle is open with suspenders and often it is firm control especially when I know he will appreciate it. Such as after a hard day at work or if we are doing something special it the evening. We sometimes meet at lunchtime and he holds me when we kiss so that we can both feel the bones and the tightness of the fabric.
Interviewer It sounds as though your firm underwear has become part of your life together.
Jackie Oh, yes. Often he would dress me in my girdle and bra in the morning before he left for work and I see him off in my negligee. I always like the sensation of him pulling the girdle up my calves and over my thighs and bottom. He's become very good at placing it just in the right place, central and the right height. Then he does up the hooks at the side and I just love the gradually tightening feel as the hooks get higher. The last one is right up towards my arm pit and then he slowly carefully pulls up the zip, making sure he does not catch my skin.
Then he helps me put on the stockings, which I like to be support stockings. I like him to do the suspenders. I select the bra and he helps me fasten the back. If it is an ordinary short bra, then sometimes I do it to let him watch from the front. If it is a long bra, he always wants to do it and I just delight in the extra control I can feel coming around my chest and into my waist.
It's quite usual for us to make love just at that moment. He leans me forward on the edge of our bed, pulls my knickers down and comes into me for a few minutes before he leaves. From behind.
[Little laugh]
I love that and I carry the feel of him around with me for some hours. It means such a lot to me to have him like my clothes and be involved in my restriction.
Interviewer Have you bought clothes specially to improve your "games"?
Jackie Yes. I bought a firm long leg high waist
[girdle]
from London, made to measure and really tight over my tummy and round my waist. I couldn't wear it for long but I like the pressure it gives all over my - er - pubic region and between my legs.