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Older stuff[edit]

I love the last edit.

Arthur 05:32 Jan 23, 2003 (UTC)

"..erotic play simply involves pulling down the panties rather than going through all the steps required to detach the garters and re-attach them after the moment has passed."

Now who says they have to be detached at all? You give me some new ideas.. :)

I think i saw a girl wearing white stockings somewhere, but with white tennis shoes..

Kinda strange

Illustrations[edit]

Some Flickr CC-licensed pictures that some enterprising user may want to incorporate: [1], [2], [3]. These are CC-BY or CC-BY-SA. Npnths 08:55, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Picture #1 & 2 seemed too gratuitous for this venue, but I added #3 to Fishnet_(material) -RJFerret 14:56, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Photo #2 "A woman wearing stockings" is almost definitely a man in stockings . . .

Exactly my thoughts. It is a man in stockings. Look at the muscular feet and skinny hips. Bib 14:27, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Don't want to sound pedantic, but that picture purporting to show fishnet stockings actually shows Fence Net stockings.

Function of this garment[edit]

Why is there no description of what function this garment performs? Other than covering the legs....the same goes for the pantyhose article. What is the point of wearing them? -- —Preceding unsigned comment added by Question2 (talk • contribs) 15:26, October 28, 2006

Clearly someone who has never worn them! They're warm. Nekkid legs get cold. Goose pimples are boring and unaesthetic, as is shivering. As is frostbite. --jpgordon^∇∆∇∆ 17:02, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- I didnt think of it that way. In winter its usually advisable to wear pants....although your legs may be covered, you only have underwear underneath the skirt. -- Question2

- - Well, "frostbite" is exaggerating, though I'm pretty amazed at how little clothing fashionable women seem to be able to wear in chilly weather. Regarding pants -- some women are sometimes required to wear skirts, and often common sense and fashion choices do not coincide. Consider high heels. --jpgordon^∇∆∇∆ 16:08, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

stockings aren't always sheer[edit]

Stockings are a covering of the foot and the leg. Socks are short stockings, though the term isn't common any longer (my grandmother used to always tell me to put on my stockings when referring to my socks).

See http://www.answers.com/stocking 72.87.188.202 17:50, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Further discussion needed[edit]

Needed is some discussion of the coming of sheer flesh-colored stockings with the shortening of skirts in the 1920s; manufacture from silk followed by manufacture from nylon; and the importance of the seam before its disappearance circa 1950. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.214.59.212 (talk) 17:48, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There are other definitions of stocking[edit]

What about the stocking of shelves? As in adding stock to an establishment, etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.21.254.68 (talk) 18:32, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps that should go on the page. →Black Tights 03:11, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Man[edit]

Is that a man in this picture? It says woman but i dont know! Not to mention some of the authors other pictures dont inspire confidence Image:Stockings5.jpg Image:Costume1.JPG Image:Miniskirt.jpg →Black Tights 00:41, 10 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

All the images you posted appear to be the same person, apart from the last one; if one is not immediately feminine, then they all won't. However, I think the last one is most definitely a woman. For the others, I think we go by the description on the images themselves. — metaprimer (talk) 02:41, 10 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh sorry about the last one, its this. →Black Tights 03:47, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I took it out. The description was obviously wrong and there is enough images in the article without it. — 67.168.166.183 (talk) 07:26, 24 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Terrible pictures[edit]

Can someone please add a more aesthetic picture of a woman with very nice shaved legs so to improve this article?.Thanks

Additional link[edit]

Added link to Stocking fetishism at the beginning, where a statement is made relative to men wearing stockings.Burst3 (talk) 19:30, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dates[edit]

We have "The first pantyhose made an appearance in the 1940s and 1950s..." followed by, "The introduction of pantyhose in 1959..." If they were introduced in 1959, they cannot have been around in the 1940s. Furthermore, the page on Pantyhose says, "...pantyhose appeared in the 1960s." So a researcher can only pin down the appearance of pantyhose to sometime between 1940 and 1969 - 30 years! And they wonder why Wikipedia has a bad name? 46.64.69.255 (talk) 05:50, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Right. The introduction of pantyhose in 1959 was the first commercially-available pantyhose. The exact date may still need attention. Stage and film dancers have always had access to costume departments, so what dancers wore has really little to do with what women could buy in the store. I have rephrased the para. Macdonald-ross (talk) 06:23, 24 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment[edit]

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Stocking/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

Generally in ok shape; the pictures at the top still look a tad amateurish, though, and I'd like to see more info that doesn't just come from the old EB article. /blahedo (t) 02:14, 17 February 2007 (UTC) This is still start-class. It needs to be better organized, cite references, and it's a bit too listy. Daniel Case 03:32, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 03:32, 24 April 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 07:06, 30 April 2016 (UTC)