tights or stockings?

We dipped Deeda

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.

they have shape wear for men in Asda!

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

@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.

@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...

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.

Not at all CAZ

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

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!!"

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

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 !

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!

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.

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.

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)

I have a tights problem as well. 5.4 but with legs like a rugby player. Never quite sure what size to get as I have to have large to fit the legs but they're then much too long. When I do find a pair that fit me I always forget where I bought them from and in what size.

feetlebaum?

Am I the only one wondering how you have such comprehensive knowledge of women's bums feetle I have an awful feeling that I shall remember your comment every time I put my tights on! I remember life before tights well - I'm still not sure how we combined stocking tops and bare thighs with skirts that only skimmed the bum. I do know that you just NEVER bent over!!!

Hold ups are OK but can make your thighs a bit raw if they cling too tightly - alternatively the Nora Batty effect can be the result if they do not grip tightly enough.
Can anybody explain the man thing about stockings and suspender belts?

Nor I, hence the socks.

Oh, I couldn't wear boots with bare feet!! Or most shoes, for that matter...

Neither! not ever, I wear leggings (no feet) with boots otherwise its bare legs for me. Can't abide the things.

I found in the days when I wore ex large tights that BHS fitted me the best. Now, because of surgery I have a grossly swollen ankle so I now just wear socks whch are wide enough for me and M&S and Sainsburys come up trumps. I only wear trousers for that reason.

Neither! - ever!