Oh this stuff is funny. LOL!!! I'm in my 40's and the mother of 2 (hence mom of 2
) and I've worked in the corporate world and in our own business (what my husband calls the "white collar" job in a "blue collar" business). I'm also in church EVERY Sunday and as the preachers grandkid grew up wearing hose. Heck, I remember my grandmothers wearing them with jeans, pants, skirts, dresses AND SHORTS! Yes, pantyhouse w/ shorts and sandals.
Then there is my MIL and her sister. They wear hose w/ EVERY skirt and dress. Nothing like a light colored skirt/dress w/ Suntan or Toast legs and WHITE SANDALS! Of course my MIL has been trying to be "hip" and wears an ankle bracelet UNDER the hose.
My mother that grew up as the PK (preachers kid) does not wear them anymore and she plays the piano and organ at church every Sunday and for funerals and weddings. She uses self tanner (sometimes a bit too much but I think my sis and I have told her to lay off of it enough that she is not splotchy orange). She as well vows to never wear them again and she IS older than I and over the age of 50. She also has vericose veins and has surgery to remove some of them w/ scars in some areas. She can't stand hose at all. She did tell me awhile back she read that some study came out saying that tanning (at a tanning salon) can help reduce the signs of vericose veins. She keeps saying she is going to try it. BTW, she does not wear short skirts/dresses/shorts.
I have not personally owned a pair of stockings/pantyhose in I don't know how many years. Even in winter I DID wear tights but have not worn those in a few either. I will NEVER go back to wearing them. Even in ultra formal attire they are NOT being worn around here.
As for those hose w/ the seam up the back. Those are NOTHING new. They were out way back when before I was even born. Then back in the late 80's they came back out again. I used to wear them all the time. Had a customer that one day asked me on the phone if I was wearing them. OMHYGOSH! My coworkers had said they thought he liked me but that cracked me up and about floored me. So be careful wearing those Sexy black stockings w/ the seam up the back
. For a night out is one thing, in a business environment it is NOT! Unless your trying to look like your looking.
Some have mentioned thigh friction and hose preventing it. Ummm, have you never heard the sound from two hose clad legs rubbing together???? It ain't pretty. Your bare legs don't make that much noise nor is it as noticeable.
Here are a few sins that are committed by hose wearing females:
Hose and sandals do NOT go together
Hose and open-toed shoes do NOT go together
Hose that are unnaturaly too dark for your complexion do NOT look good (your pasty white legs would look better and be less noticeable)
Dark hose and light colored skirts/dresses do NOT work well together
Pantyhose and shorts (especially short shorts) look like a streetwalker.
(someone mentioned Hooters - I think this came from back for dance, drill, cheer one always had to wear hose to make all of their legs look the same)
Hose, short shorts/skirts and high heels do NOT look professional. Well, they do but like a professional street walker.
Even hose and white don't look good together. A pretty bare leg looks MUCH better than hose w/ white.
If when you wear hose w/ or w/o control top OR Spanx and a large roll developes ABOVE the waist of them....... take them off. All your doing is relocating the stuff you don't want seen to another area. People are still going to notice it and maybe even moreso. A roll on the mid section of your back is NOT pretty. Just by something that fits better that you don't need to wear so much heavy "foundations" underneath. Remember when they were called "foundations"? Oh, and if you have that extra baby love around the tummy area and it looks as if it is split into a top portion and a bottom portion. You can thank your hose for that. If you will notice that division between your upper "baby love" and bottom "baby love" is right smack where the waistband for those TIGHT at the waist hose falls.
Oh well. And to think growing up I could not WAIT to wear hose. I was highly allergic to them and I had to put cotton gauze on my legs in order to even wear them. Like THAT was attractive. At least I've outgrown the nasty skin allergies I used to have in the spring. Still doesn't mean I'm going to run out and by some.
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If they're that bad, wear pants.
If not then its a wrap!
PantyHose is out...
. Oh well. The hose worked for me and didn't hurt anyone else, so it's all good 
