Stockings, Girdles, and Garter Belts
What you Should Know
These items are some of the sexiest pieces of lingerie a woman should own. Starting with stockings, hosiery is key to a great look. Unfortunately, many women have abandoned hosiery for the bare leg look. This probably comes from two sources- first, many women hate wearing pantyhose. Pantyhose are uncomfortable and a pain to wear. Second, the fashion industry has abandon hosiery.
Many women would be better served by wearing hosiery. Do you have perfect legs? Must of us have issues with our legs. Hosiery can help hide those imperfects. A good quality pair of stockings will help make your legs look great. So how do you find a good pair of stockings?
There are many styles of stockings you can choose. You can get stockings with seams, stockings without seams, and stockings with reinforced heels and toes. Seamed stockings have a seam “line” that goes up the back of the stockings. The only true seamed stockings are called Full Fashioned Stockings. The reason being that the stockings are one piece of material that is sewn together at the back to produce the seam. The seams of modern stockings are added after the stockings are made. Full Fashioned Stockings are the sexiest of all stockings. The special features of these stockings make these very popular. In addition to the back seam, a variety of heel designs are available. The most popular is the Cuban heel, but the
Similar reinforced heel and toe stockings are available without the back seam. The reinforcement adds strength to the stockings without the attention-grabbing seam at the back. Finally, you can get plain stockings with no added features to them. These are useful if you are going to be wearing sling backs and do not want a reinforced heel showing.
Once you have found good quality stockings, you will need to hold them up. If you would like to have a garment that will provide some shaping and support your stockings, you need a girdle. Girdles come in many different types. Open bottom girdles and panty girdles work very well for holding up stockings.
If you just want to hold up your stockings and do not need the shaping features, a garter belt is what you need. Now you probably have seen garter belts in lingerie catalogs and at the local shopping mall. Most of these garter belts are not designed to support stockings for daily wear. If you want to wear your stockings out around town, you need a garter belt that will conform to your body and that has metal garter clips to hold up your stockings.
