Between the planning meeting on Saturday and the first photo session Wednesday evening there was quite a lot to do. Nancy located some vintage women's clothing items including several linen petticoats, a pair of garters, and a lace cap that looked like something the female servants wore in "Upstairs, Downstairs." I asked her about the anachronistic cap and she told me it was the best she could do. I'd just have to adapt it in my drawings.
She also bought a pair of somewhat sheer white stockings. They weren't authentically eighteenth century, either, but they would do.
On Tuesday when I got home from work, Nancy modeled the complete costume for me. She looked wonderfully young and innocent. The only suggestion I made was that she find a lower cut top. And I asked her to loosen her bodice so the top of the blouse would fall open more easily. In the first session, I told her to expect quite a lot of inappropriate touching, including at least some tit-grabbing.
"Nasty man!" said Nancy. "Are you going to have the poor country girl ravished immediately?"
"Not immediately. But she gets compromised pretty early on. You know, a lot of sexual horse-play used to go on in the taverns."
Karsten called a little later. He said Gil, the Israeli student, wouldn't be able to make it for some reason. But Adrian, Glen, and he would be there. And they'd borrowed costumes, including wigs, that were more or less authentic. I asked him if Gil was dropping out of the project and Karsten said he wasn't.
I left work early on Wednesday and got home before my wife did. I gave the house a quick going over to make it appear that I lived there alone. This meant stashing a lot of Nancy's stuff until after the photo shoot. We'd be working (if that's the right word) in the living room tonight. So I moved things out of the center of the room to make a little more space. I laid Nancy's costume on the couch. I'd tell the guys that she had to store her costume at my house.
When Nancy got home at about 4:30, I showed her what I'd done. She volunteered to leave the house for a while at around 6:00 o'clock so that she wouldn't be the first project team member to arrive for the 7:00 o'clock session.
So, after a quick dinner of left-overs, I drove my wife to a neighborhood bar. I told her I'd come back for her after the guys arrived. I watched her enter the bar (looking very sexy in a long coat over her tight jeans and a semi-transparent top under her light jacket) and drove off.
Promptly at 7:00 p.m., Adrian, Glen, and Karsten arrived. They were in their street clothes. Karsten, who seemed to have fallen into the role of stage manager, carried a box containing their costumes. As soon as I let them in, I told them I had to pick up Nancy and that I'd be back in about fifteen minutes. They said they'd change into their costumes while I was gone.
I asked them to get a twelve-pack of beer out of the refrigerator. They might as well get into the spirit of tavern decadence by having a few.
Then I called Nancy to tell her I was on my way to the bar. That was good, she said, because an obnoxious guy was trying to pick her up. I asked her if she wanted me to defend her honor. She just laughed and said "What honor?" She'd be waiting for me outside.
On the way back to the house, she asked me what I expected in tonight's session. Would she just get felt up or would it go further? I asked her just to go along with whatever happened. The truth was that I wasn't completely sure what would develop. Uncertainty was part of the thrill for me.
And the usual self-doubts came upon me. What was I getting my wife into? What sort of a husband was I, anyway? Had I actually bought into the rationalization that this would be some sort of art and that it would have, therefore, some value beyond sexual gratification?
I put these moralistic thoughts out of my mind as soon as we arrived back at the house. Once inside with Nancy and the three guys, I fell immediately into the role of serious-artist- daring-to-push-the-envelope-of-eroticism. I told them that the project might be considered pornography in the service of art. But it was pornography nonetheless. None of them objected or seemed at all disturbed by my candor.
The guys looked pretty authentic in their costumes, and I congratulated Karsten on his success in finding them. We all stood around in the living room admiring the costumes and drinking beer for a while. Then I ordered Nancy to get out of her street clothes and into her costume. She said she was a little self-conscious and asked me to bring her a glass of wine to relax her.
When I got back to the living room with Nancy's wine, I was pleasantly surprised to see that she'd begun changing clothes in the living room in full view of the three guys. She was topless. In fact she'd stripped all the way down to her white cotton panties and was sitting on the couch next to her costume pulling on her stockings.
I handed her the glass of wine and said, "Wow, Nancy. I'm glad I was able to hire you. You're really gorgeous. You're not exactly a buxom barmaid, but you've got really nice tits." Then I turned to the guys and asked, "Don't you think so?"
All three agreed. But Glen corrected me: "She's got a really nice body. She's got great muscle tone and there's hardly an ounce of flab on her. She'll be really interesting to draw."
And to fuck. I knew he had to be thinking that.
With her stockings on (they went up to the middle of her thighs), Nancy stood up and put on her blouse. Then, dressed somewhat more decently and looking somewhat relieved, she sat back down and took some sips from her glass of wine.
"You won't believe what a step it was for me to get naked in front of you guys. The three glasses of wine I had before I came here helped some," she said. "But even with the wine, until now I wasn't sure I could do it."
But I wasn't congratulatory. "Well, Nancy, you're not all the way naked. For one thing, you'll need to get out of those panties. Girls of your class didn't wear them in the eighteenth century."
She smiled up at me. "You mean now? Before I get into my petticoats?"
"You might as well," I answered. "We're all going to see you down there anyway. You might as well get it over with." Damn! Was I really ordering my wife to expose her cunt to three male strangers? To distract myself from the shame of this, I turned on the cable TV to a classical music channel.
Blushing, she stood up, pulled her panties down, and stepped out of them. Looking at the floor, as though too shy to meet our eyes, she stood quite still in front of the couch for several seconds.
"What a relief that is," I exclaimed over a Rossini piano piece. "You've got a nice little patch of pubic hair. I was afraid you'd be one of those close shavers. Women didn't shave their pubes in the eighteenth century."
I glanced over at the other guys, whose attention I'd drawn my wife's reddish-blonde cunt hair. Since they were art students, they were probably accustomed to looking at nudes. Still, it turned me on to see guys I hardly knew looking at what only a doctor or I should be able to see.
She finally turned her back to the guys and me and reached down to pick up one of her petticoats. She had her legs pretty close together, so we couldn't see her crotch. But what a great view of that lovely ass of hers! I was incredibly proud to have a wife with such perfect thighs and high, well-shaped ass cheeks. It would almost have been worth it to reveal to them that I was her husband. I knew how much they'd envy me.
She finally stepped into the inner petticoat and pulled it up to her waist. It was mid-calf in length. Then she put on the outer petticoat that came down to her ankles. "I don't think I need to wear an outer skirt," she announced. "I found an internet site that said lower-class ladies often wore several petticoats instead of an outer skirt. I get a pretty good flare from these two, don't you think?"
I told her they looked fine to me.
She then got Karsten to lace her bodice for her. Finally, she put on a pair of pointed slippers, her cap, and her apron to complete the country girl look. All that remained to be put on were the frilly garters lying on the couch next to her.
"I'll put those on last. First, I have to go somewhere to refresh my make-up."
I told her to go through the kitchen and use the bathroom in the guest room. Purse in hand, she walked out of the living room. I then asked the guys to help me carry the kitchen table into the living room. It would be a useful prop in hinting at a tavern setting. Picking up the table to carry it out of the kitchen, we could see Nancy in the bathroom applying her make-up. I wondered what she was thinking. Was she getting excited thinking about what migh happen to her in the next hour?
Back in the living room after applying her make-up, Nancy sat down on the couch to put on her garters. The darling tart pulled her skirts up high to expose her lovely thighs to us as she did this. Then she stood up and waited with the guys for instructions.
First I took individual shots of the three guys and my wife. Then, after several more beers (and more trips to the bathroom just off the kitchen), I had the three guys pose in a manner suggesting drunkenness on the couch and several chairs around the table we'd moved into the living room. According to our loose script, Nancy was to be their serving wench, a job she'd taken just after arriving from the country.
I'd forgotten the glasses and empty bottles of wine, so I quickly went into the kitchen and got them. Fortunately, the shape of wine bottles hasn't changed much in two-hundred years, so the ones we had on hand that we'd bought at the local supermarket would serve the purpose. I'd decided to use empty bottles because I didn't want to spill wine on the costumes.