Sorry it’s been awhile since I posted. I’ve been busy at work and volunteering at church. Since I started wearing skirts and dresses all the time, I decided to indulge in my love of vintage clothing. The styles of the 40s and 50s wear just so much more classic and feminine, but also ladylike and modest. I’ve found that for a real vintage look, you have to wear vintage foundation garments. This means girdles! I wear an open bottom girdle daily. They are gartered, of course and you have to wear stockings attached to keep the girdle from riding up. Besides, vintage fully fashioned stockings are the ultimate in classy, beautiful hosiery. A comment made by a young lady at an online vintage forum says it best:
“It all depends on what you wear with them (fully fashioned stockings). I wear mine everyday with my vintage. I even wore them to the flea market yesterday. I just feel more comfortable in skirts and stockings than jeans and tennis shoes. I got tons of comments, mostly from older people saying, those are from my era!”
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I mean, talk about a HUGE mistake. It’s really hard to believe they have been the only real choice in lady’s hosiery for so long. I guess a bigger mistake is today’s “bare legs” look which is, unfortunately making all stlyes of hosiery extinct. Maybe bare legs are in because everyone is simply fed up with pantyhose. They’re just so inchy, uncomfortable and cheap… who needs them? But really, there’s only a very few of us gals who have absolutely perfect legs. And besides, who really wants to bake themselves in ultraviolet rays or slather their legs in dyes and chemicals enough to make them unblemished and tan enough to appear in public. Besides, I think going out barelegged is just, well kinda disreputable and unladylike. Obviously stockings and garters are the only way to go and wearing them makes me feel so girlish and feminine. Really, every lady should try them… I’m a happy girl since I did and now where them all the time.
