By Request… Punishment Shorts
From Blushes Supplement 2. Some lovely pictures and ideas which sparked responses from the readership. Sir, In the first Blushes Supplement you did a photo series ’by request’ on suspenders and stocking tops and asked if there were other requests. Yes! I would like a photo series on girls in shorts! There were tantalising glimpses in the series [Jobsworth] printed to illustrate ‘Educating Sandra’ but that splendid girl was stripped naked too quickly. I do not mean modern athlete’s shorts with those side slits. They are too loose and too short. Punishment shorts should be thin and snug and cover the whole bottom and least two inches of thigh — so that the delicious sculptural shape of the girl bum — is seen as a whole. For penal whippings in Holland in the 19th century girls were fitted with such shorts (‘drawers’) when being ‘publicly’ whipped within prisons and it was quite usual to drench them with water just before