Since Mark joined the firm, he and Phyllis have had regular business meetings; every few days; just the two of them. Company things moved quickly between them and so did their friendship.
In only the second meeting, on a Wednesday, Mark said, "I hope you're not offended by my comment on your stockings, at the selection sessions."
"No. Not at all. It's nice to have someone notice," she replied.
"May I ask something on the same subject?" he ventured with a little break in his speech, as if expecting a rebuff.
"Ask me and I'll let you know," she smiled and chuckled.
"Well; how do you keep your stocking in place and looking so good?" was his query.
"I wear a girdle, of course," she felt able to say, and quite relaxed about it, against her own expectation.
"Will you have dinner with me one evening, or lunch at the weekend?" he asked her, straight out with no hesitation in his voice this time.
"That would be nice," she agreed and so it was arranged for Saturday lunchtime. They would visit a local country restaurant that she knew already. He would collect her from her house, and he seemed to know her address before she told him.
"Can I call you Phil?" he asked, "or do you prefer your full name?"
"No one has ever called me Phil, but I'm happy for you to do it," she assured him.
At that moment, for the first time in many years, Phyllis felt coquettish, frisky, alluring and enticing in the presence of a man she liked. She stood up in front of Mark, looked him steadily in the face with a little smile, reached backwards to her left back-suspender and adjusted it under her skirt. First, she unhooked the stocking, moved the welt around a little, and then did up the suspender again. All the time looking straight into his eyes and smiling. Mark couldn't actually see what she was doing except that he saw her movements and seemed to understand the process. He smiled back at her, stood up as if to leave, took hold of her waist and kissed her gently on her lips. Not a mad passionate sloppy kiss; just a quick brushing of their lips and then he moved away.
"I think you're lovely and special, and I look forward to Saturday," he said softly and then left, looking back at her all the time.
On the evening after that conversation, Phyllis was in a turmoil of excitement and apprehension. After all, what did she know about him? Only his age and his liking for her nylons. And maybe her underwear. Hardly enough to risk spending time alone with him so she was relieved that they arranged a public place. After all, she was old enough to be his mother.
She began to plan her outfit for Saturday and got herself into a more relaxed frame of mind.
In bed, later, she slept through the night in her girdle and stockings, but not before she had brought herself to a long slow orgasm with one of her "toys." This time, thinking of Mark, she allowed herself to wonder what would he be like as a man-with-a-woman. The girdle and nylons were there, reminding her through the night as she awoke from time to time; and the same question came to mind.
On Saturday, Phyllis decided to make a big effort to please herself in her clothes and maybe to please Mark as well. She chose her firmest and most difficult girdle, made by Spirella in the early 1980s, when she was still a young woman. High-waist in style, rigid front panel with bones down the front, at the sides and all the way down the back from top edge to the rear suspenders.
Donning this girdle took over an hour: getting it into place correctly, connecting up the eight hooks over her left hip and ribs, finally sliding the zipper up the whole length and feeling herself totally contained.
Bending round to fasten the tan-coloured fully-fashioned stockings was no easy task but she revelled in it, partly because the movements exaggerated the tightness on her waist but mostly because she always enjoyed the smoothness and the precision of these nylon stockings, with their dark line up her calves and thighs.
On top, she added a midi-bra that settled into her already-gripped waist and a pair of silky satin panties, which met the bottom edge of the bra on her waist.
A long scrutiny in the long mirror convinced her that she was "properly dressed" for this man and this occasion. In fact, she was slightly breathless and she knew it was partly excitement but also a consequence of her firm girdle. And she was elated, with warmth and moisture under the panties.
Over all these delightful underpinnings, she wore a mid-calf shirtwaist dress with long sleeves, buttons all the way down the front; and a wide belt to show off her girdled waist.