tights or stockings?

Crossed posts, Deeda - I was suggesting that feetlebaum would probably be only too willing to answer Soutra's question.

(But we did always wear knickers as well as stockings/tights, didn't we? That's why I don't understand all the fuss about tights when they first came in)

Tegan try BHS ex large and I think that you will be pleased. I am 1" taller and found these were ideal for my shape.

Last time I wore tights was last September when I had to look respectable for DSs Wedding and they where so uncomfortable all day,I had visions of me resembling Max Wall as I had to wear really high heels normally on a daily basis I either wear jeans/socks or leggings & socks as I find tights very uncomfortable,I have been known to wear hold ups but not a fan as they tend to slip and I always forgot the "no body moisturiser" instructions on the packet hense they never stayed up properly.I have to agree re BHS tights though as their sizes always seemed spot on when I had to wear tights when working.

Hold ups for me as choice but me too havmeerienced the fall down effect! This winter asda George ones only £4 pack 2 they stay up wonderfully really,

I am tall as well as plumpish and also quite pleased with marks ex large.
Hope that's some help!

ANA
NO!
LAUGH!

MOllie, in the days when I wore tights I always found BHS to very good , I used to wear a shade called Paola , I think , anyways whatever , they were a good colour !

Soutra. that's a question that has always puzzled me. Likewise the male obsession with black stockings and undies - for women, that is.

I think it's the "Lads Mags" that always displayed women in stockings and suspender belts that are to blame, portraying a "certain image!" I always had to wear them to please my husband, and dammed uncomfortable they were too. Thank goodness I don't have to please anyone these days!! I hope that's not "too much information!!"

Neither, for years and years. Can't stand them.

Not at all CAZ

I've found two pairs in a sale that fit quite well. Hudson I think.
Any way I wear M&S shapers over them and they stay fixed. Still I only wear them for special occasions with my favourite skirt and boots.

@Annodomini -- As a chap, I have to say that the erotic effect of black underwear is highly overrated... white satin, now.... another story!
Excuse me while I cool off...

@Soutra - For one thing, we mature gentlemen were playing the great game long before the dreaded tights arrived, and I believe one's tastes are formed early and don't change very much with the passage of time. Then in the early sixties, tights for little girls arrived - opaque, of course, in primary colours - I can remember my step daughter, then five, looking up at me in a perplexed way and saying plaintively "I don't UNDERSTAND my tights" which were on a terrible tangle somewhere around her knees. But I digress.

Stockings came with a welt, known to chaps as the 'giggle strip'. This was because it was reckoned if you got past there you were laughing...

Tights were an abomination, not unlike those roll-on things, with the holes in, that were advertised on the back of the Radio Times, near the garden sheds. They were the 1960s version of the chastity belt. the great thiong abut stockuings and suspenders was - they weren't ruddy tights

PS: My wife #1 sometimes wore opaque black tights and a sweater with a belt - it was a beatnik style.

Just musing Feetle wonder if you as a man would have stockings or tights ??
Bet your sweet bippy you would not have !

they have shape wear for men in Asda!

Ah well, for chaps... stockings were the almost knee-length socks soccer players wore - and according to the programmes when I was a nipper, they also wore knickers.

We dipped Deeda

I wore my winter frock for a 'do' last week for the first time in ages - and found I couldn't get tights on! Had to resort to knee highs - luckily the frock is quite long. Glad to be back to normal now and thick socks.

I think loosing a bit of weight may help!

These days I can`t wear either, can`t manoeuvre my body into the right position to get the damn things on! Must admit to not feeling quite right on special occasions though.

As I said in another discussion, I have found that leggings can be worn instead of tights most of the time. They are much easier to put on and slightly kinder to the legs as they are not so clingy. They also don't ladder!

Tights and stockings make me itch,
The very idea makes me twitch,
So it's jeans or trousers every day,
The most comfy thing for work or play.

I realise it's stockings that men adore,
But I'm too old to care about that any more,
And tights to me are simply torture,
Even though they kind of support ya.

I remember being so desperate to keep my tights up at school that I would wear a pair of pants under and another on top. Tights were so expensive that I received my first pair as a birthday present when I was eleven, and my mother was seriously wondering how she could steal them frm me, I knew that covetous look... Luckily for me I was a lot shorter than her at the time. I didn't get around to wearing them for another two years, but their main purpose as far as I was concerned was for wearing to school under my long uniform socks, to keep my legs warm without incurring the wrath of my teachers, as we weren't allowed to wear stockings or tights until we were fourteen. I dabbled with holdups, but had several embarrassing experiences of the variety mentioned by others, and as for tights - suspender belts and buttons are just torture. I wore them maybe half a dozen times but realised that the only people who would benefit from them would be men. I can remember being asked on occasion by boyfriends if I was wearing stockings! I just lied and never gave them a chance to find out the truth. I'm not daft.

Seems we all have problems with hold ups, and not many of us like tights either [or stockings!] However, sometimes, social do's, weddings etc we just have to bite the bullet and do one or the other.I suspect partly it's a weight thing, as I don't remember having a problem with it when I was slim.I had to go to a wedding a few months ago and bought myself a suspender belt, and then some lovely stockings from BHS [think they are the best maybe so will try some tights from there]. Anyway, the stockings were rather nice, and slightly glossy and stayed in place [with aid of suspender belt.] I remember going to a wedding a few years ago, getting dressed for it in a hotel, opened new pack of tights, and couldn't get the b****y things past my knees!I wonder if Evans do roomy tights for short ladies? I would like some warm opaque black tights if possible. Do you remember the stockings we had to wear at school they were called lisle weren't they ?I don't think you can truly contribute to this thread feetlebaum as you have never suffered in this way to look good!!!!

Roses

Not me , not me ,not me , Miss !!
I like them a heck of a lot !

Cool round the nether regions

In 1970 I worked with a girl who wore really microscopic skirts. She wore paper knickers (remember them?) under her tights and ordinary knickers over them. Chastity belt or what? She was renowned for never getting speeding tickets, but was very good at hitching her skirt way up if she was pulled over
Are we sure feetlebaum has never tried tights or stockings roses ???