Question for Women ONLY! Need your input here

[rosebud]

Okay, I admit it I am a little slow to get on the band wagon with the latest trends. I think I'm pretty fashionable but at times I feel like I am waaaaaaaaaaaaay behind times. Here is my question... "Hosiery" so it appears that hosiery is a thing of the past from what i've read in various fashion mags. In one I just read lately a women tried to embarass her significant other by wearing what she called "suntan opaque church lady hose"! So I can grasp this in the heat of summer, great pedicure no hose, works for me. But it is now the dead of winter! It actually snows up where I live in AZ and so what do all you fashion conscious women wear when it is cold or snowy in your area? Oh and please don't say pants because that is not a current option for me! Dora.......your imput here would be great since you are the one who turned us on to SPANKS!!!

[Pragmatist]

I still wear hosiery (and I consider myself young). However, I do not wear suntan opaque hosiery; hopefully that's what they were mocking.

[LaGirl]

I NEVER wear hose. i live in the south. if i lived in the north it would be hose or tights....but NOT suntan! lol

[bethola]

Let's face it.....I need to COVER MY LEGS!! They are 53 years old and worked for a NURSE for 25 years! Plus, I live in Kentucky where we do have seasons. I wear tights or some sort of colored hosiery (mostly cream, nude or black). In summer, I use Jergen's tanning lotion and wear no hosiery.

[rapunzelgirl]

I consider myself very fashion-counscious, but I'm a little old-fashioned about these types of rules. My mom, who is a true Southern lady, raised me that you don't wear hose with strappy sandals and you don't wear strappy sandals after labor day or before easter...period. Never. No questions asked. I loooove all my strappy little shoes, but they go into storage on the day after labor day.

So, I always have on socks, hose, tights, etc. in the winter, and no, I don't wear pants. If it's for church or something else dressy I wear very sheer panty hose in black, ivory, or flesh color. I've found a shade of hosiery at Victoria's Secret that matches my skin tone perfectly. During the week for work I wear tights if I need to. I love to shop for cool, patterned tights. Target is a good place to look but they sell out quickly.

[Rhoni]

Just don't wear white Fashion mistake! LOL.

I like self-tanner and french pedicure with sandels. Pants in the winter with warm socks

Blessings, Rhoni

[Dora]

I love TIGHTS, TIGHTS, AND MORE TIGHTS!!! Striped ones, colored ones, herring bone pattern, fishnet over sheer black hose is cute, patterned hosiery is FUN, but be careful not to get crazy with too many patterns going on in your outfit.

If you're wearing solids adding pattern in your hosiery is FABULOUS! Also, monochromatic dressing is fun when you put different textures of the same color all together. For example: A shiny satin silk camisole under a crochet or delicate mesh cardigan over a knee length wool or velvet pencil skirt with striped or fish net tights and knee-high boots all in deep chocolate brown could be stunning.

In my humble opinion, the hosiery industry needs to do the women of the world a HUGE favor and STOP (for love of GOD!) manufacturing Suntan Colored hose! STOP THE MADNESS!

No hose in warm weather - a nice tan or sunless tan (NOT ORANGE!), a beautiful pedicure and toe-flattering sandals is definitely the way to go! Thank God for deliverance.

We had to wear hose on chorale tour and it was truly a HORRIBLE experience - still traumatized...but I'll be all right! LOL

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by Dora

I love TIGHTS, TIGHTS, AND MORE TIGHTS!!! Striped ones, colored ones, herring bone pattern, fishnet over sheer black hose is cute, patterned hosiery is FUN, but be careful not to get crazy with too many patterns going on in your outfit.

I love tights, too. Plus, they're much warmer than pantyhose in the winter, if that's what you're after.

[bethola]

Originally Posted by rapunzelgirl

I consider myself very fashion-counscious, but I'm a little old-fashioned about these types of rules. My mom, who is a true Southern lady, raised me that you don't wear hose with strappy sandals and you don't wear strappy sandals after labor day or before easter...period. Never. No questions asked. I loooove all my strappy little shoes, but they go into storage on the day after labor day.

So, I always have on socks, hose, tights, etc. in the winter, and no, I don't wear pants. If it's for church or something else dressy I wear very sheer panty hose in black, ivory, or flesh color. I've found a shade of hosiery at Victoria's Secret that matches my skin tone perfectly. During the week for work I wear tights if I need to. I love to shop for cool, patterned tights. Target is a good place to look but they sell out quickly.

To quote a line from "Steel Magnolias"...."You were brought up Right!" Long i sound in Right! LOL
Me too! No white below the waist OR sandals after Labor Day or before Easter! They tease me all the time at church about this! LOL

[rapunzelgirl]

Originally Posted by bethola

To quote a line from "Steel Magnolias"...."You were brought up Right!" Long i sound in Right! LOL
Me too! No white below the waist OR sandals after Labor Day or before Easter! They tease me all the time at church about this! LOL

LOL!

The line in that movie that prompted this quote is one of my favorite lines ever. My sisters and I quote it often.

"I haven't left the house without Lycra on these thighs since I was fourteen."

One of the best movies ever!