Stockings In History And Culture

I just watched a video on how women can wear stockings to look sexier. The video included how to attach the stockings with a garter belt to give a real sexy and alluring look. It is interesting to note that garter belts and stockings were the usual part of a women's apparel. Today it is only found on ads for sexy looking lingerie.

Women only wear these clothes on the birthdays of husbands or boyfriends. And come to think of it husbands probably never get to see them anymore and boyfriends do not realize they will be out of luck once they resort to marriage. Other than that they are tossed back into the clothes drawers for another birthday. When did panty hose and pant suits replace stockings and garter belts and dresses?

Listen I know that it is a lot more convenient for a woman to wear pants and not dresses. That is I assume it would be easier to wear pants than a dress.

But can we not somehow pass a law saying women have to wear a dress at least twice a year? Is that too much to ask? And let them wear the panty hose they do not have to wear a garter belt.

I suppose it would be unconstitutional and after all with all the women in government these days it is a wonder they have not made a law that men have to wear dresses, stockings, and garter belts one day a month. No there is no turning back now. I think you can trace all of the now lean days for dress makers back to the early days of the women's liberation movement.

At least the days I remember back in the early 1970's when women libbers showed up on university campuses and carried signs demanding equal rights as men as burning their bras in trash can fires; many men stood around and cheered the bra burnings. Burn baby burn! But what they did not see what women were doing outside of the camera view. They were burning their culture of dressing as women had for centuries.

Perhaps women did not burn their dresses back then or their stockings, but these clothes have been a victim just the same to the war of the sexes. I can recall the days I would go to school looking forward to art class in seventh grade. Our art teacher, an old woman of about 23, I was 12 back then, wore the cutest shortest dresses with nude style stockings.

I use to look forward to her chalk board drawings. Especially when she had to reach to the top of the board to draw her lines. We all got to see those adorable stockings. I enjoyed her artwork even though I never became an artist. And there were also a lot of girls my age back then who looked great in dresses. Those days are only a memory however. You see cheerleaders in skirts because the whole idea is for cheerleaders to look cute and adorable. I cannot say with any conviction though that I have ever seen a great looking pair of slacks lately.

You can find unique and beautiful hosiery today! You can find stockings that will give you a distinct look and add flair to your wardrobe.