The Church of the Satin Ribbon

by Kathy Blouse

 

A fantasy

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Prissy had always liked bow blouses. What is a "bow blouse" you may ask? It is a very feminine blouse often of silk or satin with long full sometimes puffy sleeves and a high neck. But the neck part of the blouse is very special. Instead of a typical collar, a very long and wide ribbon of the same material and color of the blouse is attached at the neck part. The wearer then wraps the ribbon around her neck to form a huge soft and fluffy BOW. The loops of the bow are very large and fluffy coming right up to the wearer's chin. And the tie ends of the ribbon are very long hanging down the length of the blouse. When Prissy was 12, in the late 1970s early 1980s, feminine women's blouses were at their height of popularity. Prissy had seen a lot of women wearing the very popular blouse with a large bow tied up on the neck, and he wanted one like that too. The fabric appealed to Prissy too, all in silk or satin. Even then, he fantasized about the idea of the feeling of a soft bow around his neck. He fantasized also that girls and women loved the feel of the soft ribbon softly tied into a bow around their necks. When the girls would wear their blouses with the bow, if the girl bowed slightly, to pick up something, the soft ribbon would dangle so softly and sweetly that Prissy would become very excited.

One day, Prissy went downtown to see more girls and women wearing bow blouses. He wanted the chance to see a white satin bow blouse on a nice girl or young woman. He decided to dress well so he wore his best suit and tie with shorts, like a schoolboy. He went downtown and saw several girls wearing very sweet silk bow blouses going into a kind of temple. They all wore the same kind of blouse, white with a very feminine bow around their necks and pleated skirts with high white stockings. It seemed to be a kind of uniform. Several girls had larger bows with wider ribbons than others.

Prissy began to shake, but then thought nothing ventured nothing gained and slowly sauntered over to the line of girls entering the temple. One girl with a nice bow but not quite as long and wide as the others stood at the entrance.

The girl saw Prissy coming over, took her skirt in hand and made a nice curtsey almost on to her knee in front of Prissy. The ribbon of her bow softly hanging from her neck dangled away from her blouse for a moment, swaying softly back and forth. Then when she stood up, and the ribbon bow went back to its place hanging down her blouse front. "May I help you?" she said.

"I, uh, just wanted to say that your blouse is very beautiful…"

She sweetly put her hand to the middle of the soft bow and said, "Oh thank you." She curtsied again. "May I ask what it is you like about my blouse?"

Prissy gulped and said, "The…tie looks very nice on you." He tentatively pointed at her soft bow.

"Tie? Oh! You mean my ribbon!" She adjusted the full big bow at the loops by taking her fingers and pulling them up and out slightly at her neck.

"Oh, you call it a ribbon?" Prissy began to shake.

"Oh yes, ribbon is a much more feminine sounding word than tie, don't you think? Tie usually means a boy's or a man's tie, like what you are wearing. This is called a 'bow of ribbon'. And this is the "Church of the Satin Ribbon."

Prissy began shaking almost without control. 'The Church of the Satin Ribbon"?"

The girl laughed. "Oh yes. We all wear blouses with ribbon bows around are necks. Our Fairy GodMother lets us wear them. You must come in and I will explain everything to you. Would you like to come in? My name is Christina."

"Oh yes!"

They entered the temple. Everywhere were young girls and women wearing long ribbons tied into soft bows with their blouses. The colors were mostly white, blue and pink, sometimes silk sometimes satin. The satin blouses had bows that were much longer and wider while those that were made of silk had bows that were very slightly smaller, although they looked very nice and feminine as well. The church had an air of worship, but the walls were very colorful. At the far end of the hall was a large double door with the words "The Blessing Chapel", and next to it was another smaller door with the words Confession and Punishment.

Prissy really was shaking almost none-stop. "What are those rooms?"

"That one is the room where we worship our Fairy Godmother. We have a ceremony every day. In the other room, we each confess to our Fairy GodMother if we have made a mistake. She must then decide if she will punish us." She looked slightly sad.

"How does she punish you if you did the wrong thing?"

"Well, I am not supposed to reveal that if you are not a member."

"How do I become a member?"

"Silly, only girls can be members. Boys cannot wear bow blouses!!"

A sad look came Prissy's face.

"Do you want to wear bow blouses and worship our Fairy GodMother?"

Prissy began shaking again. "Oh yes!"

"Well, our Fairy GodMother does have many magical powers. She may be able to turn you into a feminine girl."

"She would?"

"Well, come to the chapel. I will pray to her and ask her to appear. She might be able to use her magic and make you into a girl. Come this way."

They entered the large doors of the Chapel area. It was very white room with white and pinks and blues along the walls. The biggest white bow of long and wide ribbon Prissy had ever seen hung at the far end of the facing wall. In front of it was a large chair like a throne up several steps facing outward. Facing the throne at the bottom level were rows of chairs but no pews. In front of each chair was a pillow on the floor. There were several side chapels in which several girls were praying. To one side was a statue of a beautiful woman seated in a chair very similar to the throne. She wore a long satin dress with something at her neck but Prissy couldn't quite make it out.

Christina slowly approached the statue. First she took her skirt in hand and knelt down on one knee before the statue while slightly bowing her head. She stayed on her knee for a moment. The statue seemed to glow. Then she rose, but then kneeled again, this time down upon both of her knees before the statue. The length of her skirt was just above her knee, and Prissy could see both of her knees resting on the floor with the lower part of her legs resting behind her. The bottoms of her shoes pointed slightly upward as they rested on the floor behind her.

"Fairy GodMother, I humbly ask you while I am kneeling upon both of my knees, please come before. I have a favor to ask."

The other girls in the chapel saw what was happening and stopped what they were doing. They came out and watched the front of the room.

A white glow came from the statue and slowly moved away from it. It was the height and width of a person, but it was unformed. Then it began to take shape. A beautiful woman in her early 30's then appeared. She was wearing a long silver satin dress that sparkled and flowed around her. She wore a golden crown on her head and held a golden star wand in her hand.

The moment she appeared, all the girls, about 8 or 9 in alll, said, "Bless us Fairy GodMother." Then they all at the same time dropped to their knee. "Please bless us most Holy Fairy GodMother!" they all said at the same time again.

Prissy was still standing and saw Christina down on her knee toward the Fairy GodMother figure. Christina turned her head backward slightly toward Prissy who was slightly behind her. "Kneel down", she whispered.

"Someone has summoned me," the Fairy GodMother said gently and kindly. "Who was it?" She fingered her wand. "Please speak up. It would make me very unhappy indeed if I had to punish the girl who has summoned me, and does not speak up."

"It was I," Christina said.

"I see you have brought a boy into our midst. You know that boys are not allowed in the Blessing Room. You must explain yourself. Or you will be punished. Come forward my dear."

The Fairy GodMother slowly walked to her throne and slowly sat in it adjusting the skirts of her dress. "Come forward."

Christina slowly stood up and walked demurely up the steps and stood in front of the Fairy GodMother.

"Now, what do you say, Christina?" the woman said with a very gentle loving voice. The voice was high and very feminine.

"I have come before you to ask a favor, most magical Fairy GodMother."

"And what are you wearing my dear child?"

"I wear the silk white blouse with a large bow of soft ribbon around my neck."

"Your ribbon is not as wide and long as the others. You are obviously still a novice."

"Yes, Fairy GodMother."

"And what posture is your Fairy GodMother in when I listen to your request?'

"You get to comfortably sit upon your throne."

"And what posture must you assume, my dear?"

"I must kneel down on the floor on both of my knees before you to show you that while you have magic I do not, and therefore I am inferior to you and lower than you are. I must lower myself down upon knees"

"Well then so be it," said the Fairy GodMother. :"What must you do child?"

"I must humbly kneel down on the floor in front of you upon both of my knees."

The girl slowly lowered herself down upon both her knees until she was kneeling right in front of the Fairy GodMother. She looked up from the floor into the face of her Fairy GodMother who looked down upon her lovingly. "I kneel down before you most Holy and Good Fairy GodMother as you sit comfortably on your throne, and I very humbly ask a favor."

"Yes."

"This person here," she gestured to Prissy who was still on his knee, "is a boy. He would like to become a girl and join our order. Do you have magic to transform him into a feminine girl?"

A slightly concerned look came over the Fairy GodMother's face. "Are you doubting my magical abilities, Christina?"

She quickly shook her head. As she did so, her ribbon bow went side to side with her head.

"I hope not. Having doubts about the magic of your Fairy GodMother could mean punishment."

"Oh, I didn't mean that, Fairy GodMother!"

"I know you didn't. But be careful. You must not make a mistake like that while wearing such a beautiful bow blouse and kneeling so humbly before your Fairy Godmother."

"Please forgive me, Fairy GodMother?"

"I forgive you, this time. However, I may not be so quick to forgive next time. Remember that the Confession Room is always there. Please do not make me summon you to it."

"Yes, Fairy GodMother."

"But, in my good and infinite wisdom, I shall grant your request. On one condition."

"Yes?"

"You must teach him all of our ways. When she becomes a girl, she must love bow blouses and ribbons. You must also teacher her how to worship me and love me. And I will reward her with a wonderful blouse with a long and wide ribbon that she can wear around her neck."

"She wants to."

"But, if she makes a mistake, especially while she is wearing her beautiful blouse and bow, tell her that she will be punished, and how she will be punished."

"Yes Fairy GodMother."

Prissy shivered slightly. "Punished?" he thought. What was the punishment?

"Bring him forward."

Prissy came forward.

"Walk up the steps," Christina said. "Do not be afraid."

Prissy slowly walked up the steps in his suit. Christina stood and stepped to the side allowing him to come before the Fairy GodMother. He stood there shaking. The woman seemed to be waiting for something while she was fingering her magic wand as he stood before her.

"She is waiting for you to humbly kneel before her, like I did," Christina said.

"Kneel? Um, how do I do it, and what does it mean?"

"Explain to him later," the Fairy GodMother said gently. "Just show him how to do it."

"You bend your knees and allow them to sink down upon the floor so you are upon both of your knees, lower than the Fairy GodMother. She is going to cast a spell on you to turn you into a girl, so you must show in body and heart that you are inferior to her and her magic. To receive her spell, you must display a very profound posture of submission, weakness and dependence. I will explain all this when I teach you. For now, you must kneel down." Christina gently placed her hand on his shoulder and he slowly went down upon the floor on his right knee in front of the sitting Fairy GodMother. His leg brushed the end of her skirts as he sank to the floor. His left leg was bent upward with its knee pointing to the Fairy GodMother and his left foot on the floor. "You must be down upon both of your knees. Allow the other knee to rest on the floor behind you as well." He slowly brought the other knee down to the floor, both feet resting behind him.

"Now fold your hands on the knee of the Fairy GodMother's satin dress and look up into her eyes." He looked up and saw one of the most beautiful faces he had ever seen. Her face was white, almost like snow but with a bit of blush to the cheeks. Her lips were softly pale pink. Her blue eyes looked lovingly down upon him. And then he saw what she wore around her neck. He never seen anything that looked so soft before! They were silver satin ruffles, huge ruffles that were layered and encircled her neck right up to her chin! As she spoke, the top most ruffle went up and down with her chin. Oh, how they looked sooooo soft to him!

"Now you must ask her what you desire."

"I want to wear soft satin bow blouses!"

The Fairy GodMother sighed as Christina turned her head away. "Christina?" said the Fairy GodMother gently. Christina turned back and sank to her knee at the side of the Fairy GodMother's throne. "You promise to train her? We can't have her making these outbursts when she is kneeling down on the floor before me."

"No, Fairy GodMother."

The woman brought forward her hand, and the girl bent forward and began repeatedly kissing it. The girl's ribbon came forward and swung slightly away from her blouse as she kissed the Fairy GodMother's hand.

"Tell him what he must say."

Christina rose again and said to him, "You must ask what you want and remind her what posture you are in."

"You mean that I am on my knees?" Prissy said turning back to Christina.

"You must understand that you are in a way begging your Fairy GodMother to cast this spell on you. She is the only one who has the magical power to do this. You must entreat her by kneeling before her. You can make no demands upon our Fairy GodMother, you may only ask, sometimes beg. By kneeling down before her, you are humbling making your request. Hopefully, by such a display of humility, she will consent to grant your wish."

Prissy looked back to the Fairy GodMother. "Please, I ask down on my knees, please change me into a girl so that I may wear your beautiful blouses with bows!"

"Do you know what your blouses will be made of?"

"Um… satin?"

"Yes. Silk first. And hopefully satin later on. But once I have changed you into a sweet feminine girl, I will not be able to change you back. You will become a sweet feminine girl who loves ribbons, ruffles and bows, skirts, dresses and soft silky satin. And I will give you sweet soft feminine clothes to wear as your reward for being good. But in my good and infinite wisdom, if you make a mistake, you must confess to me your wrong doing and I will decide whether you will need to be punished. Christina here will teach you everything you need to know." The Fairy GodMother raised her magic wand up but hesitated. Prissy was looking up to her.

"Bow your head to the Fairy GodMother as you kneel to receive her spell."

"Oh." Prissy slowly lowered his head on his tie.

"You are now a girl," the Fairy GodMother said waving her magic wand.

Prissy's hair began to lengthen and curl. His legs became slightly longer and skinnier. His face began to soften and his eyes became bigger. His slips became slightly softer and more puffed. His hands became smaller and more delicate. And his clothes now seemed slightly too big.

The Fairy GodMother put her wand on her lap and put her hand in front of what was now a girl's lips. "You will be now known as Katherine," the Fairy GodMother said.

"Take her hand and kiss it three time," Christina said.

The new Katherine took the Fairy GodMother's hand in hers and softly kissed it repeatedly.

"Now Christina, you must teach Katherine everything she must know. I expect her ready for the blousing ceremony."

"Yes, Fairy GodMother." Christina dropped to her knee again.

"And if she is not ready, I will very reluctantly have to punish both of you. Which would break me heart to do. But I must do what is good and right for both of you, and if that means punishing you and Katherine, then so be it."

"Please I will do my best," Christina said. "I do not want to be punished, most good and wise Fairy GodMother."

"Now I must leave. Have her ready for tonight's ceremony."

"Yes Fairy GodMother, oh most wise," said Christina while still on her knee.

Katherine was still kneeling in front of the Fairy GodMother, and Christina nudged for her to stand, move to the side and go down on one knee.

The Fairy GodMother slowly rose, moved from the side of her throne with the beautiful skirts of her dress rustling behind her, and waved her magic wand. Poof! She instantly disappeared.

The other girls rose from their knees when the Fairy GodMother had gone.

  

 

 

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