Here's a stocking question

[Matt Deckard]

My mother remembers that women in the 1960's would be getting their stocking mended rather than buy a new pair... even in the US women just tossed them for new ones, though in Europe they were mended.

Now when I was in France last i saw many ladies taking joy in buy stockings at the local Department store in Paris (They were trying them on near the watch counter... I just noticed okay!). They are still pretty prominant wears in society ther, very detailed in some respects with embroidery and other cool design weaves... Not Pantyhose mind you, though regular stocking... you know, one per leg.

Now... have you ever had your stockings mended, and do you know anyone who has?

 

[jitterbugdoll]

I've never mended my stockings, but a coworker gave me a couple of mending kits that dated to the 1950s-60s. I've yet to use them, though, so I can't say how effective they are.

Some of the designs (flocking, rhinestones) that were produced in the 1950s were incredibly beautiful, and some of the colors made in that era and previous ones were really unique. I have seen lovely golden stockings (not my size, alas), and read in one of my 1930s catalogs that you could even order stockings in nude with a red seam and foot

 

[Lauren]

Aww, M. Deckard, are your stockings in need of mending? And why were you in the ladies hoisery department anyways?

 

[Matt Deckard]

and read in one of my 1930s catalogs that you could even order stockings in nude with a red seam and foot

Hmmm... I like the beige or nude look... though a fishnet now and again aint bad.

 

[Caledonia]

Well you can make your own fishnets Matt if you're really keen. I have a pattern. And I guess they'd be easy to mend too if you're a bit hard on them.

 

[BettyValentine]

Oh what a great idea! I mean covering a hole with embroidery. I've never mended stockings, but I've darned socks before. (Just once so that I could say I had done it. ^_^) I do love fancy stockings and nylons. I think my favorite pair right now are black with a branch with flowers embroidered along the outside of the left leg. They're so great with a little tweed dress.

I don't know that I'd want to mend a pair, though. Unless the snag were someplace it couldnt' be seen, I think that, for me, a visible repair would ruin the fun of a really fabulous pair of stockings. So I just cross my fingers and hope to avoid snags.

BV - Just picked up the nylons to wear with my wedding dress (opted out of real stockings due to a particularity of fit with the dress). They're nude hose with a black backseam that ends in a little black hand holding the "seam" straight. I'm totally in love with them, even though no one will see them under my long dress.

 

[BellyTank]

...and read in one of my 1930s catalogs that you could even order stockings in nude with a red seam and foot

...and you still CAN get them in 'nude', with the RED seam in them.

B
T

 

[Marc Chevalier]

The question is, why would you? The word "bordello" comes to mind.

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[BellyTank]

I

wouldn't.
I'm a Man, me.

B
T (a Man)

 

[jitterbugdoll]

...and you still CAN get them in 'nude', with the RED seam in them.

Yes, I have seen them (not in fully fashioned, though—I've only seen solid red ones in that style), and did see a friend wear them out on one occasion. She wore them with a playsuit though, which I thought looked more odd then the fact that they had a red contrast seam.

 

[Caledonia]

wouldn't.
I'm a Man, me.

B
T (a Man)

Yes, but it was a man of the male persuasion that raised the question in the first place. So we girls can get a little confused on who's doing the stocking wearing....

For anybody interested in making their own fishnets, I meant it when I said there was a pattern.

http://www.vam.ac.uk/images/image/13087-popup.html

 

[Matt Deckard]

Point of fact -- I have bought stockings for girls in the past, doesn't have to be my girlfriend, I just get old fashioned things for ladies at times... books, shoes, dresses, flowers, chocolates, stockings, tickets to shows... I just like doing that... I never get stockings in return, though I'm sure it's for the simple matter that I haven't a use for them.

Stay wonderful -- ladies of the Lounge!

 

[Caledonia]

Unless you turn to bank raiding. Never say never.

 

[Matt Deckard]

If i raid a bank it's going to be a neckercheif over the mouth and a cowboy hat on my head!

 

[Caledonia]

And it would suit you so much better

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Point of fact -- I have bought stockings for girls in the past, doesn't have to be my girlfriend, I just get old fashioned things for ladies at times... I never get stockings in return.

So what do you receive in return, Matty? lol

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[Matt Deckard]

So what do you get in return, Matty? lol

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I don't expect anything in return!

Feng shuied a girls house once... Got a thanks!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I didn't say "expect": I said "receive".

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[Caledonia]

You should have Feng Shuied it a bit more thoroughly. It's all about the time you put in!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Just imagine what a more thorough Feng Shui-ing might have "given" you! lol

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