[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Stockings and Tights (WAS: Shoes Indoors)

[Sheryll Townsend]

--- ssk7882 <skelkins at attbi.com> wrote:
> 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.

Thank God I'm not the only who suffers like this! You
know it was a man who decided there should be such
thing as 'one size fits all' pantyhose. No woman in
her right mind would think we all wear the same size. 

I'm 5'9, but I have long legs and wear a 34" inseam.
Not only does this mean I'm reduced to wearing queen
size (who thought up that term?) pantyhose, but it
plays havoc in buying pants, especially jeans. What
moron working for the jeans manufacturers decided to
eliminate the 34" inseam from their stock? I went
jeans shopping before Christmas, to the one place I've
always been able to find my size and.... nope, not any
more. Add to this the fact that I've put on weight.
Hmmm.... no, not allowed to be large with long legs
either.
> 
> 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.*

I wish we had somewhere like that here. I've talked to
many drag queens, but they all shop the same places I
do. 
> 
> 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.

I've tried that. Seems I still have the same problem.
Most times the stockings barely come a few inches
above the knee, and certainly never high enough to
attach them to garters without first ripping my foot
through the bottom of them!
> 
<snip> 
> Sheesh.  Can you tell that this is one of my
> personal pet peeves?

Yup. And it's one of mine as well. :D
> 
Sheryll, done ranting and now in search of another coffee

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