switch from pantyhose to stockings

I absoloutely agree with the lady below who reccomends fully fashioned stockings – the look is just amazing; keyholes, seams and cuban heels are such a rarity these days, despite their stunning effect. I too wear only dresses (mostly vintage, some self made -am a dressmaker/corsetiere by trade – dev:pretentiouslydevious) and heels, of course incomplete without one of my trusty corsets or girdles. Modern suspender belts, with a measley four clips, usually just don’t cut it. I haven’t worn “pantyhose” or tights (I live in London) in four years. One of the best places I have found to buy FF stockings is ebay – they’re usually very reasonably priced, with either vintage stockings or modern reproductions available in many colours; many vintage boutiques just don’t stock them.
Ladies, do your man a favour – 50’s frocks, corsets and crinolines, teamed with seamed stockings and killer heels! x

I threw away the pantyhose couple of weeks ago so I guess I’m officially reached this goal.

:D did this last winter – and definitely worth doing !

I learned something: Don’t dry stockings on a heated towel rack. Now almost all of my thicker stockings have melted marks on them as the rack was way hotter than the stockings could handle.

This goal is going so well I think all my plain pantyhose will be thrown away when I move 2 weeks from now. I simply do not see myself going back to them.

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!”

A person with thick thighs, like me, would probably get a better fitting pair of stockings getting one size larger than what the size chart recommends.

The package says “soft, warm & opaque” and that’s very correct (through they are not 100% opaque). These are really delightfully soft warm stockings! I should get more of them.

I’m in the middle of their range of heights/weights for size M and still the stockings are much shorter on me than most stockings are.
The thicker part on the top on these stockings is narrower than I prefer (only about 5cm).

Otherwise rather comfortable and soft stockings that seem durable (but I have no experience on that yet as I haven’t washed these yet).

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.