Seamed FF-stockings with garters.
I prefer the women clothes from the 50ties and 60ties, which include full fashioned stockings with seam and corsets or girdles with garters with metal clips.
Are there any of you girls out there, that have the same preference? Or will you say, that this is not what a woman use nowadays, and therefore you don't like or use these things?
Could my preference be, because my first experiense was as child in my mothers drawers, where I found this items?
Seamed FF Stockings with garters
MissAnnie,
I think most CDs were attracted to styles that they grew up with. I was and still am fascinated with bright red lipstick. Todays' fashions call for more natural colors that I don't feel comfortable with. Do we dress to impress other people or do we dress to please ourselves? Like you I fall into the latter category. Just make sure your seams are straight. Sally2
Another Old Fashioned Gurl
Boy you gurls have come upon an interest of mine from way back. I remember so well my older cousins and aunt how they dressed so nice. I found a web sight that made dresses from the fifties expensive but realy nice looking stuff and yes they catered to the our needs I'm going to have to find it again. They produced there line in the same fabrics that were popular back then horizontal stripes and this shinny fabric I don't recall it's name. One dress was a copy of a Sophia Loren number she wore $400 bucks matching cloth belt $75. :D
FF stocking length and feel
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Originally Posted by Missy Anne
Hi MissAnnie,
Full fashioned stockings are my favorite but I only wear them on special occasions due to their high cost and due to the fact that finding them in my size is very difficult. I wear a size 12 shoe, and size 12 flat knit stockings are not all that hard to find, but with most of them, even though they may be advertised as long and may fit my foot ok, they quickly run out of length and if they are not long enough, they just don't make me feel feminine and attractive. It is impossible to present a fifties elegant appearance when they are too short.
Missy Anne
I have just three FF stockings (not pairs of stockings) having bought two pairs of Harmony Point several years ago before they disappeared from shops. I managed to ladder one but, as I am not able to wear for any length of time or very often, I have managed to make them last. I'm lucky in wearing size 8 (UK) shoes, so stocking foot size is not a problem. Unlike Missy Anne I like the fact that these stockings extend only to mid-thigh. That's what all stockings were like back in the 1950s and 60s. They do not stretch either, and have to be tightly suspendered to prevent them from wrinkling. They ensure that a girdle of the same vintage is held well down, giving that special strong grip around the top of the legs and a very different feeling as you walk. That and the very tight stretching of the girdle at the rear when you sit down or bend (because, unlike modern stockings, the FF ones do not allow the hem of the girdle to rise up) are the two features which are most strongly imprinted on my mind from when I first tried a girdle and stockings on afternoons home from school in about 1958. While I really love that sensation, I can well understand why the advent of stretch, seamless stockings was so much welcomed by women for everyday wear.