it's odd I know....?

There are young women who enjoy wearing pantyhose, but their numbers are quite small. Due to the causalization of the workplace and the rise of the bare legged look, many young women who might enjoy wearing pantyhose are never exposed to them. This trend has been building since the 1990’s.

In my day, the occasion of a girl’s first pantyhose wearing was a rite of passage. It was a sign of being grown up and mature. When the right Church Sunday, or Synagogue Saturday, or Special event (party, wedding, etc.) came along, the girl left her girlhood tights in her dresser drawer, and put on her first pair of pantyhose. Seventh grade or age 12 seemed to be about the average start for this.

For more than a decade, the hose-less look has held sway. Many girls have never seen their friends, older sisters, or cousins wearing pantyhose. Wearing pantyhose simply doesn’t occur to them, because they have no role models who wear pantyhose. Even if they see Mom slip into pantyhose for worship or a funeral, most of the other women attending the event, who are younger than Mom, won’t be wearing pantyhose.

I suspect that there is no rite of passage connected to going bare legged. After a while, contemporary girls notice their friends and peers are no longer wearing tights, so they stop wearing them too. I doubt that going bare legged makes them feel grown up, but I might be completely wrong about this.

However, be of good cheer. Better days are coming.

Pantyhose are coming/have come back. For fall 2006, every (and I mean EVERY) major fashion magazine in the USA declared black tights in, in no uncertain terms. Before 2006, ANY kind of hosiery was considered worse than committing murder. Then suddenly, when the fashion world ran out of ideas, they changed the no hose rule.

Better still, in 2007, some designers displayed pantyhose in their runway shows. It made headlines, literally!

Best of all, for the past several seasons, famous celebs like Jessica Alba, Paris Hilton, Beyonce, and Lindsay Lohan have been wearing sheer pantyhose quite regularly to clubs and on the red carpet. Are these young ladies "un-cool" and "out-of-step"? I don't think so. I think the rules may have changed, and many bare-legged disciples might find themselves out of the loop.

lil miss sass is right, pantyhose are invariably uncomfortable to wear, they roll up round your waist, sag round your thighs, are a complete pain when you need to go to the bathroom and look hideous over the waistband of your skirt. I wear thigh highs because they are totally practical and have none of the disadvantages of pantyhose.

ha are you kidding me?? any one who actually likes to wear those things are insane! i mean, when they aren't ridding up, they are slidding down, and you can't fix them in public because than you look. . . well lets just say you look bad, so you just have to deal, they are not fun!