Heartbreak Hotel by Anne Rivers Siddons, Popular Library (1977)

The Knife in My Hands by Keith Maillard, Beaufort Books (1983) This book touches on androgynous boy dressing in girl's clothes; might available at second hand book stores.

[ALL THE ABOVE OF COURTESY OF JOHN]

The Castle by Franz Kafka

There is a scene in which K is trying to make love to the barmaid at the Herrenhof and rolling around behind the bar, fumbling with layers of underskirts which he cannot overcome.

Commentary by Pammie: K seems unable to overcome the wide, thick, soft, snowy expanses of winter landscape that surround the castle. A petti-reflection of the one of the themes!

Blue Moon (Victorian Library)
(a/k/a "The Adventures of Julian Robinson")

A Victorian governess applies petticoat discipline to an unruly boy in England. Certainly corsets are the main stay (npi) but in the latter part of the book, there is a shopping trip to London in which Julian is outfitted in corset, petticoats and dresses.