Stockings and Tights (WAS: Shoes Indoors)

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Cindy said:

> I like tights a lot.  I can imagine that I have Halle Berry's legs 
> if I wear a pair of tights.  I don't like stockings because they 
> run, which causes helpful people to come up and say, "Do you know 
> you have a run in your stockings?"  I always want to reply, "Yes, 
> but I'm a bag lady, so it's OK."

Okay, I just had to weigh in here.  I *hate* tights.  Tights,
stockings, panty-hose...as far as I'm concerned they're all
demon-sent to torment me.

I have long legs, you see.  And the thing about the people who make 
tights and hose is, they don't really believe that women are 
*allowed* to have long legs.  Or they think that if women *do* have 
long legs, then they must be really really *thick* legs as well.

In practice, what this means is that I have two choices when
it comes to hose.  I can go for the largest "normal size" 
available, in which case the crotch will come up to about mid-thigh
on me, forcing me to waddle around like a duck; or I can go for
something in the special "larger sizes," in which case not only will 
I have just paid twice the price for something that will only last a
week before it gets a run in it anyway, but there will also be
all of this extra nylon material pooling around my ankles and
knees and folded up in creases along my calves, making me look 
a bit like an elephant, or possibly just like someone with a very
unusual skin condition.

When I lived in New York City and had a straight job that required
such garb, I used to buy all of my panty-hose at this shop in the
West Village that catered to transvestites and transsexuals.  It cost 
me a fortune, true, but at least the stuff actually *fit.*

Outside of NYC, it's harder to find such shops.  So when I absolutely
*have* to wear something stocking-like on my legs, I'm forced to 
resort to stockings.  You know, stockings?  The old-fashioned kind?  
The kind that hook to a garter belt?  Which *does* have the advantage 
that it makes me feel vaguely naughty, but which is also a royal 
pain, to tell you the truth, because garter belts just aren't in the 
least bit comfortable to sit around in all day at a desk.

And the weird thing about all this is that I'm not even all that tall.
I'm only five foot *eight,* for crying out loud!  And I'm not...how
to put this?  I'm not freakishly-built, or anything like that.  I'm 
not noticeably long-legged.  People don't take one look at me and say 
things like: "Wow, your legs are long."  And I'm far from skinny.  I 
am *very* far from skinny.  *Miles* from skinny, in fact.  So what 
gives with the sizing on the panty-hose?

Sheesh.  Can you tell that this is one of my personal pet peeves?

Oh, and as for shoes?  I do wear them inside, but not in my bedroom 
and not on the couch and *certainly* not on the bed.  (Does anyone 
really put their shoes up on the bed?)  But then, I have a very old
dog, not in the best of health, who has started to become a bit 
incontinent, so eating off of my floor is utterly out of the question 
these days. :(

-- Elkins