Why Is It??

You don’t seem to be aware of the wide choice of female hosiery available nowadays MickyT. It’s not just “stockings or tights”.

Yes I think I'm very out of touch Blossoming
I'm very Old School too

Not worn stockings or tights for about 40 years 🤣🤣🤣bare legs or lovely wide trousers in fantastic colours and prints for the summer and slightly( but not much) more subdued in the winter

I have not worn tights since I retired in 2003, and I can only wear trousers now because I have horrendously lymphoedematous legs.

I can't remember the last time I wore tights. I wore stockings and suspenders in my teens but ditched them as soon as tights came on the market.
Trousers or long dresses for me these days.

Trousers for me, so no stockings or tights.

Tights in the winter for me and only those from Snag who have comfy fitting tights for those of us who don't resemble a willowy supermodel.
If any men come on here I bet it will be stockings and suspenders as they are way more sexy than tights.
Bare legs in the summer.

Can you even buy suspender belts any more? I mean ordinary ones, not the things you’d probably find in Ann Summers….

Strictly tartan trews for me come rain or shine.

Have a nice day Micky.

Yes you can Witzend John Lewis sell them

LOL!! Are there any women at all, that even like and wear them?? seems tights aren't popular either

Don't you have a woman of your own you can ask, Micky ? You'd get a more personal answer from her.

If I had a woman of my own Elegran she'd be wearing them hopefully lol

They’re very old fashioned, uncomfortable ( I’ve worn them ) or associated with male sexual fantasy.
I used to wear ‘hold ups’ which are basically stockings but without the need for a belt.

I was at a bus stop getting a bus to see my boyfriend ( now DH) in the late 60’s. Suddenly I felt my suspender belt break and my stockings went baggy. It was about a mile home, so I went into the nearest phone box, took my knickers off and then took off the broken underwear and stockings.Put pants back on and ran for bus. And it was daylight.

In my opinion, women simply gave up wearing stockings and suspenders in general because ultimately there was a more comfortable, and practical, alternative.

Trousers are also frequently more comfortable, and practical, than a skirt - particularly if you are involved in an activity which involves more than just sitting around.

I don't know why you think you will get "shot down" for posing the question though, unless there is a sub-text to it... I think tights gained popularity in the mid / late 50s in the UK which is a heck of a long time ago and most people, even old-schoolers, have long since lost their curiosity (or disappointment) at the change!

My male music teacher, back in the 50s, used to wear knee-suspenders to keep his socks from falling down. When he hoisted his trousers to sit at the piano, they were on full view. Then artificial fabrics enabled socks with elasticity and 'grip'. I suspect most men who wore these suspenders happily ditched them, too.

One reason could be that sheer tights or stockings require smooth hands and well manicured nails to put on or else they get snagged…
..another reason could be hairy legs under sheer tights/stockings look particularly horrible…so wearing these types of hosiery requires a high level of personal maintenance and this is something that many women nowdays are unwilling to commit to (me being one) ..that is before the extra expense is taken into consideration.
There are such things as “hold-ups” (they have elastic tops) that are a viable compromise between having ones “nether regions” encased in a nylon tube for hours on end and itchy lumpy suspender belts.
Mystery solved MickyT ?

American tan stockings/tights - ugh🫣….. they made legs look horribly unnatural (and occasionally still do). These days people prefer a natural look to their legs, and fashion has evolved accordingly, thank goodness.

Dickens a lot of men used to wear braces too, I wonder why they’re so rare now? Maybe changes in trouser waist bands.

Kandinsky

They’re very old fashioned, uncomfortable ( I’ve worn them ) or associated with male sexual fantasy.
I used to wear ‘hold ups’ which are basically stockings but without the need for a belt.

Yes. Women don't wear them now that they have so many alternatives, for the same reasons that men no longer wear starched collars that held their heads at an uncomfortable angle and chafed their necks - but some men still expect their womenfolk to wear oldfashioned uncomfortable underwear to indulge their fantasies.

I would personally much prefer to wear stockings and suspenders than tights, but you cannot get them here any longer.

Tights are not my shape and never have been since their invention in the days of the mini-skirt when we were all teenagers!

Thick tights last winter under trousers because my church is really cold!

It has to be a very special occasion for me to ditch my trousers for a dress and reveal my legs. As I've got very fair skin I never tan enough to make my legs look OK, and fine tights are so easy to damage,

I remember getting my first pair of stocking ( tights not invented) my mother forgot to
buy me a suspender belt. I ended up wearing my 'nylons' with garters. The stockings became very baggy at the knee after I sat through the Chapel service.