These socials are not a monthly masquerade party but rather a celebration of their secret lifestyles. All the women present at these AKS functions have a Female Domination marriage or relationship with their male partners. These monthly socials are merely an opportunity for the women to show off their progress in the training and disciplining of their spouses and significant others. Trudy and her female AKS friends believe in Female Domination but enjoy a more traditional and historical form of FemDom. They love the Victorian era and would rather wear the clothing from that era rather than leather or fetish attire.

Like many of the women of the AKS, Trudy owns quite an extensive wardrobe that consists of not only Victorian era dresses but also Victorian era lingerie, corsets and petticoats. Most Victorian undergarments are very pretty and elaborately embellished with lace, ruffles, and embroidery. Petticoats especially, are trimmed extensively at the hem with ruffles where they might be seen. Dressing in such attire becomes somewhat of a ritual and a major production or as Trudy likes to call it, “a celebration of the feminine”.

The clothing of the Victorian woman was so elaborate and cumbersome that getting dressed during the Victorian Era was indeed a complicated chore. Ladies literally had to develop a careful, well-thought-out routine for dressing. Because the corset was quite rigid, which made it so difficult for the woman to move or bend, several items went on prior to the corset. First would have been her stockings; cotton for everyday wear, silk for special occasions and wool for the winter. Stockings were held in place by garters, which attached directly to the corset. Boots of some type were the typical everyday wear for the Victorian women.

Drawers would be pulled on next. Drawers were almost always open-crotched and they were usually made of cotton and ended just below the knee. Next, a chemise would have been slipped on. A chemise was a cotton garment, similar to what we know today as a "slip". It usually had extra trimming over the bust-line to add fullness. Bras were not worn, but there was the "comfort bosom supporter" for the endowed, and the "bust-enhancer" for the smaller woman.

Next came the corset. There were as many different types of corsets as there might be occasions to wear one. There were rust-proof corsets for swimming, short corsets for horseback riding and corsets with elastic inserts for everyday wear. Today, the corset has become popular in the world of Female Domination. A lot of submissive men (like Norman) have a fetish for seeing a woman in a corset. The Professional Dominatrix is accustomed to having a male client request that she wear a leather corset as part of her Dominant outfit.