Wearing version of little black dress to wedding this weekend... stockings or no??

[Anonymous]

I assume your have nice legs - they'll be shaved, no unsightly varicose veins, spider veins, etc.

If so, you may still be able to get away with no stockings, but it looks less formal and too casual.

[Anonymous]

If you are over 20 years old wear the stockings. No stockings is fine for a garden party wedding but a winter wedding to which you are wearing black and suede calls for stockings.

[Anonymous]

I don't get this whole no stocking thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The black suede heels sound pretty bad, actually.

OP here... they sound bad, I know... I'm not a fan of suede either. But they're actually really lovely and elegant. I took a look at my legs and they're pretty dry and chafed... I think I have to bite the bullet and wear stockings. To complicate things, I bought spanx to hide the post-partum belly and I don't think control-top hose are going to cut it. I might have to wear both!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't get this whole no stocking thing.

I'll try to explain it as best I can but I am 40 and so a bit long in the tooth for this. Remember how when you were in your twenties you would see a 30, 40, 50 year old woman, or even, god-forbid, another 20-something, wearing "x" that seemed totally "out" or even worse, cluelessly out of touch and old-fashioned to you or just a hot trend past its expiration-date (like winged-back/frosted hair or tan/nude hose or white tights with pumps or a pashmina or whatever)? Well, stockings are the equivalent these days. Stockings are "out" or "old-fashioned" and hip twenty soemthings wouldn't be caught dead in sheer stockings. I remember when my mother made me wear stocking with (gasp of horror) high heeled-sandals to my wedding shower and that was oh-so-horribly wrong but that rule now applies to all sheer stockings in general in the hip world.

[Anonymous]

I vote for the black opaque tights. Its a much more modern (and warm!) look, and I see a lot of people doing that for an evening look. They should look great with your suede heels.

[Anonymous]

I am 33, a mother of two, and NEVER WEAR STOCKINGS. Opaque tights yes. Bear legs, yes. BUT STOCKINGS???? Argh and double argh.

This is a generational thing. Do what feels comfortable for you....

[Anonymous]

Definitely stockings. It is a formal event - wedding, and it is winter.

[Anonymous]

Is there a difference between stockings and tights and pantyhose? I thought those terms were interchangable.

[Anonymous]

Tights are thick.

Everything else is not and is not in fashion. At all.

[Anonymous]

OP here... so are y'all saying that if I show up in sheer stockings I'm going to look like a complete dork?? I guess I didn't realize that they have become so out of fashion! I don't like them because I hate the way they feel but I didn't realize that they are so... out! I'm trying to visualize the opaque tights, I'm not sure if they would go with my dress. I'm 38 years old, not old by any means but not in my 20's, either.

[Anonymous]

Dude, OP. If you have nice legs, show them with pride.

[Anonymous]

Funny how we all use different terms here. I've never used the term 'stockings' - I think of it as old fashioned I think of tights as being thick and made of cotton and of pantyhose as the sheer hose we all love and wear!

Anyway, yes, wear the hose. Bare legs in winter look silly and as others have said, impractical.

[Anonymous]

OP, I am 40 and wear opaque tights almost every day. I also wear them out for evenings. You can definitely pull it off! Note, also they are much more flattering for less than perfect legs (like mine!) as they tend to make them look slimmer and generally hide flaws.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not black tie and my dress goes to mid-knee (and my legs are ghostly pale). But I hate stockings!! What would you do? It's a 4pm wedding.