I'm a 40 yr old guy and I have to say that I always love the look and feel of a nice pair of stockings on my wife. Even looking at models these days, their "red carpet looks" don't look as nice bare legged, even though they have really nice legs. Most women don't have that and look much worse. A pair of pantyhose can take a women with "5" legs up to a "7" or "8" easily.

No hose. Always frumpy, even on Kate. If you are under 50, go bare. If you're over 50 (as I suspect 90% of all the pro-hose folks on this thread are), do as you like but stop trying to drag everyone down with you!

I have trouble buying hose for my teenage daughters. Both are petite and need the smallest size hose. What they do not need is a control top and/or support hose. Why do manufacturers think that somwbody wraring the smallest size needs a control top? It's almost imposdible to find regular hose for them.

I like wearing stockings, I have good legs and I think my legs look pretty in high heels and sheer hose.
I actually look forward to the fall when I can take them out again, in summer I go bare.

Anonymous wrote:I wear hose to job interviews and funerals. That's it. As someone else said earlier, if you don't like it, look away.

+1

Also, hose and tights give me a rash. Pretty much any synthetic material against my skin gives me a rash. I dress well, but I dress to please myself.

I wear hose to job interviews and funerals. That's it. As someone else said earlier, if you don't like it, look away.

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Anonymous wrote:OK, I know the current trends have been toward bare legs, but I don't like that trend. I have nice legs, but I think they look better with hosiery. My husband likes them better with hose. Most women I see on a daily basis don't have nice legs and need to wear hosiery. We need to reverse the trend of bare legs, it is not a good one.

+ a million

I wear hosiery every day. It's comfortable and flattering. Nobody in dc should have bare legs at the office or at dressy events. You should only avoid hosiery if you are wearing sandals. Period.

Ew. Hosiery are gross, and ugly. I haven't worn them since high school (in the 1980s).

Ew? Gross? You sound like you were in high school yesterday, girlie. Grow up.

Nah. I'm pretty successful in life as I am.

Obviously.

I'm 30, in shape; great legs... I choose hosiery.

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Anonymous wrote:OK, I know the current trends have been toward bare legs, but I don't like that trend. I have nice legs, but I think they look better with hosiery. My husband likes them better with hose. Most women I see on a daily basis don't have nice legs and need to wear hosiery. We need to reverse the trend of bare legs, it is not a good one.

+ a million

I wear hosiery every day. It's comfortable and flattering. Nobody in dc should have bare legs at the office or at dressy events. You should only avoid hosiery if you are wearing sandals. Period.

Ew. Hosiery are gross, and ugly. I haven't worn them since high school (in the 1980s).

Ew? Gross? You sound like you were in high school yesterday, girlie. Grow up.

Nah. I'm pretty successful in life as I am.

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Anonymous wrote:OK, I know the current trends have been toward bare legs, but I don't like that trend. I have nice legs, but I think they look better with hosiery. My husband likes them better with hose. Most women I see on a daily basis don't have nice legs and need to wear hosiery. We need to reverse the trend of bare legs, it is not a good one.

+ a million

I wear hosiery every day. It's comfortable and flattering. Nobody in dc should have bare legs at the office or at dressy events. You should only avoid hosiery if you are wearing sandals. Period.

Ew. Hosiery are gross, and ugly. I haven't worn them since high school (in the 1980s).

Ew? Gross? You sound like you were in high school yesterday, girlie. Grow up.

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Anonymous wrote:OK, I know the current trends have been toward bare legs, but I don't like that trend. I have nice legs, but I think they look better with hosiery. My husband likes them better with hose. Most women I see on a daily basis don't have nice legs and need to wear hosiery. We need to reverse the trend of bare legs, it is not a good one.

+ a million

I wear hosiery every day. It's comfortable and flattering. Nobody in dc should have bare legs at the office or at dressy events. You should only avoid hosiery if you are wearing sandals. Period.

Ew. Hosiery are gross, and ugly. I haven't worn them since high school (in the 1980s).

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Anonymous wrote:Kate doesn't have a choice. All the British royal women have to wear hose.
I say if you got it, flaunt it. If not, spare a thought for others and cover up lol!

The problem is, very few women have it, but most flaunt it.

I'm tired of seeing flabby white, unkept legs trotting around under skirts. Women are even getting lazy about shaving and it is disgusting.

What, pray tell, is an "unkept" leg? Not shaven? Or is there something else you had in mind?

Anonymous wrote:OK, I know the current trends have been toward bare legs, but I don't like that trend. I have nice legs, but I think they look better with hosiery. My husband likes them better with hose. Most women I see on a daily basis don't have nice legs and need to wear hosiery. We need to reverse the trend of bare legs, it is not a good one.

If you and your husband have a HOSIERY PREFERENCE I suspect you're both OLD AF, and this (older) millennial doesn't care what you think about my (un)covered legs.

When you're my boss and there are complaints about my clothing choices - we'll chat. But I'm confident you're not and I'm confident there aren't. I spend a lot of money on my work clothes to have them tailored and cleaned. I work with capital E Executives all over this city, and many of them dress poorly - suits that were in style when I was HS that are thread worn, shoes begging for a cobbler, jackets with the X still holding the rear flaps together - if they're even in business formal or casual at all.

If I'm wearing a skirt you're only seeing half of my knee through the top of my foot anyway, and I'm tall so you're seeing max 2 feet of real estate...
I could absolutely get behind the trend of getting young women to stop wear miniskirts/mini dresses to work, because then you are seeing a lot more (exposed, "not nice per OP") leg (and a lot more else too).

Anonymous wrote:OK, I know the current trends have been toward bare legs, but I don't like that trend. I have nice legs, but I think they look better with hosiery. My husband likes them better with hose. Most women I see on a daily basis don't have nice legs and need to wear hosiery. We need to reverse the trend of bare legs, it is not a good one.

Anonymous wrote:OK, I know the current trends have been toward bare legs, but I don't like that trend. I have nice legs, but I think they look better with hosiery. My husband likes them better with hose. Most women I see on a daily basis don't have nice legs and need to wear hosiery. We need to reverse the trend of bare legs, it is not a good one.

+ a million

I wear hosiery every day. It's comfortable and flattering. Nobody in dc should have bare legs at the office or at dressy events. You should only avoid hosiery if you are wearing sandals. Period.