Stockings Pre Women’s Lib
I recently watched a video on the internet about how women can look sexier when they wore stockings and garter belts. It is hard to imagine that there was a time when stockings and garter belts were not about looking sexy they were part of the everyday clothes for women. Today if you see them in lingerie ads you are lucky.
Only on their boyfriend’s birthday do women wear such items of clothing anymore if even then. And forget about the husband’s birthday. He has to go to the underwear ads to see stockings and garter belts. We are in the area of the panty hose not the garter belts and stockings. That era has left us for good it would seem.
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.
Trust me I do not know this from first hand knowledge. And by the way if you are from Great Britain I use the term pants referring to what Brits call trousers. I am not saying women are walking around in only underwear. Despite the convenience can we not pass a law somehow that women have to wear a dress with stockings and a garter belt instead of panty hose one day a month? Is that too much to ask?
I guess it would be challenged in the courts as unconstitutional. And with all the women in government today they might pass a law making men wear dresses, stockings, and garter belts. There is no going back… And that is sad. You can I believe trace these lean times for dress makers to the beginning of women’s liberation.
Or at least to the time I remember back in the 1970’s when women on college campuses around the country carried signs and demanded equal rights. They burned their bras in trash can fires. And many a man would stand around and shout burn baby burn cheering the bra burning. But they did not see what the camera did not show. Women were burning also the dress wearing centuries old culture.
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 liked when she reached to the top of the chalk board to draw a picture. I had a gook view of those lovely stockings. I did not become the artist she was but I did enjoy her art work. Those days are gone however. They are part of history just like a woman who knew how to cook and sew and make a good cup of coffee. By the way seen any lovely looking pant suits lately at starbucks or McDonalds?
You can find unique and beautiful hosiery today! Find stockings that will give you a distinct look and add flair to your wardrobe.
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