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Posted: 10/15/2006 9:59:53 AM | RDToo, there are only 2 uses for stockings (actually a lady suggested a 3rd gentle use )
1) Ballet for Football club 'Red Faces' talent night. Be warned, you will not be able to hear the music for all the  so practice hard.
2) Prevention of injury from Stingers (Box Jellyfish), their neurotoxic injection is deadlier than being caught with pantyhose on, can sometimes can kill. | |
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Posted: 10/15/2006 5:09:45 PM | I remember when pant suits came into fashion. The bank where I worked actually had a seminar that we all were required to attend which included a fashion show of "approved" styles of pant suits. The first time I walked into work wearing a pant suit felt really weird. Since that time, it seems to me that beautiful, feminine styles of dresses passed from the scene. I remember when my daughter was going into high school where every catalog and clothing store carried teeny tiny tops and teeny tiny skirts, only in different colors. No real style to them at all, and the women's clothing shops were not much better. For a lot of years, we lost those really beautiful dresses, at least in my opinion. If you recall Emma Peel's wardrobe in the Avengers, I believe the 70's may have been the last of those elegant, stylish days for awhile. Everyone went into tee-shirts and jeans, flip flops, and baseball caps.
These days, dresses seem to be coming back. I for one am really glad about it. I really like the feel of a feminine dress. No matter how uncomfortable the whole getup might be. It sort of feels like a Peppermint Patty commercial kind of experience to dress up like that. Most of us used to clomp around in our mother's high heels when we were little girls, wishing we could look like that. I love it! Now if I could only walk like Marilyn Monroe in heels . . . | |
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Posted: 10/15/2006 8:13:49 PM | Personally, I gave up the panty hose and high heels about twenty years ago. I decided to leave main stream amerika and return to hippieville.
Since then, its been long flowing skirts that swirl around when a gentle breeze comes up. Birkenstocks go great with these skirts and they make some real cute sexy ones now.
The bra has also become optional.
Oh, haven't shaved my legs or pits for the same length of time....
How shocking!
Peace
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Posted: 10/15/2006 9:26:34 PM | I miss women in dresses, but I am also sick of men in wife- beater t-shirts or pants that look like pjs. Also, why do all the fat dufeses wear shorts and mumu shirts? Okay, and why does every American (US citizen anyway) have to wear big dumb white athletic shoes? ' ' | |
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Posted: 10/16/2006 6:34:17 PM | Pantyhose are uncomfortable. Stockings are comfortable. Not those nefarious "stay-ups" that don't stay up, but real, silky stockings with a garter-belt. If more women tried them, they'd never go back to pantyhose.
And in the long run, they're cheaper, too. You pay way more for a pair, but they're better quality and last longer. Plus, when you get a run in one, you still have the other to pair up with another orphan.
Honest, ladies. Try them again. They're not your grandmother's garter-belt and stockings! | |
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Posted: 10/16/2006 7:19:31 PM | I'm not going to blast you.
I agree with you whole heartedly. If more men would stand up and be counted with you maybe more women would start dressing/acting feminine. Of course you might have to leave that t-shirt or polo shirt in the closet and wear a nice pair of slacks and a dress shirt in return. | |
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Posted: 10/16/2006 7:33:10 PM | | I whole heartedly agree with lipstick 1961. Most guys today dress like they are on their way to a worm wrestle. I usually wear a sport jacket or vest and a classy cowboy hat when I'm not working. The South American women appreciate my apperance. But they dress pretty clasy too. I believe our apperance says a lot about our society. And yes I normally remove my hat indoors. I'm all for clas. | |
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Posted: 10/17/2006 12:41:50 PM | One of the first compliments my boyfriend paid to me was how delightful it was to see a woman in a dress. He said that he had missed being with a feminine woman.
I want equal rights and equal pay for doing equal work, but I'm still a woman...from my pierced ears to my painted toes. | |
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Posted: 10/18/2006 10:42:48 PM | I only wear pants if I am cleaning the house, or off to school in the morning and it's cold. Dresses are much more comfy, and I love my stockings and heels and rarely can something be as satisfying as matching the perfect pair of shoes to the quintessential hand bag. I love being a female!
Because of the dresses I wear when I am performing, I have to wear pantyhose. They ususally fall close around the legs due to space on stage and the garter fasteners show. I am pretty positive panty hose were invented by Satan. | |
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Posted: 10/18/2006 11:16:53 PM | I agree with sexylady,
I dress in all the gear when going to a special party, including the seamed stockings, and LBD.
But I do think women dress for women, and not for men.
I don't think the majority of men appreciate women's attire.
After all, you rarely see a guy buying a fashion mag, they often tend to drift to the top shelf, and there isn't much in the way of clothing there... | |
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Posted: 10/19/2006 1:42:26 AM | Please see attached picture.
I've always been a dresser-upper; love dresses and heels.
Don't even wear jeans.
I'd like to dress up every weekend in a ballgown and tiara (I own 2 tiaras!)
Smiles n Grins, Ally | |
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Posted: 10/19/2006 1:52:48 AM | It is NOT about being sexy. It is about having a little pride.
There is nothing sexy about the monkey suit that I wear around. Always lose cufflinks. Cumberbund rides up. And those darned patent leather shoes, ouch! It says something about a person, man or woman, who takes that extra step. If you can show your date the courtesy of being at your best, they are relieved of the necessity of figuring out why "MOTLEY CRUE" means so much to you. | |
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Posted: 10/19/2006 12:48:01 PM | Some of us still wear dresses, stockings, etc.. depends on the occasion. But, I don't think this culture is less SEXUAL..; perhaps less SENSUAL..
Is that what you're looking for? | |
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Posted: 10/19/2006 2:21:16 PM | Look at Kate Hepburn....
I always found her incredibly attractive, and she was seldom traditionally dressed or even doing anything in a conventional "female" way.
I like those things too, but it's more a question of the person and their style. | |
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Posted: 10/20/2006 1:56:11 PM | Why in the world would any woman dress for comfort?
That's ridiculous. No woman dresses for comfort 24/7 !
Things have gotten way to casual in the world of fashion these days and I think it it's just awful, before long there will not be a ladies or mens department, they'll all be the same crap.
Big, ugly, black rubber sole shoes or flip flops, the only choices in footwear.
When my grandmother was a young girl, they could not afford stockings (the depression) so they would take eyebrow pencil and draw a line down the back of their legs to make it look like they had nylons on. Now, most young women they are "icky" or "itchy" and I can't help but roll my eyes back in my head.
I've seen way too many young girls wearin' stuff that makes 'em look like a sack'o doorknobs. Tight hip hugger jeans, with a blubbery belly roll over the top and midriff top to make sure you see ALLLLL the flab about. The "cheap" look is in, so I'm not and will not be the "da bomb" till they get put their fashionless, trashy, bootylicious & vulgaristic garbage back in the dumpster where it belongs. | |
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Posted: 10/20/2006 4:31:43 PM | I love a garterbelt and stockings. And dresses with lovely stuff under them and pretty nightgowns. I wear them when it is appropriate and fun to do so. My occupation takes me to a first nations reserve playing on the floor with children. I find my hi heels get stuck in the dirt if I garden or go hikeing in them. You get the idea. It is not always convenient to wear that kind of clothing. I also Dance Ballroom and Argentine Tango. Ballroom is very elligant and Tango very sensious (sexy) I dress for both styles of dance and love it. the other thing I love about this mileau is the men also dress up. There is nothing nicer than a well dressed (shirt jacket and tie) man.
My sexuality has nothing to do with what I wear. I can be just as sexy in sweats as I can in a skimpy tango dress. What I wear does not have anything to do with my feminity. I am feminine no mater what I am wearing. I am also feminist. By my definition feminist is being for the feminine not against the masculine. I believe ther is nothing I can do that is not feminine
As to our culture being more sexual 40 years ago. I was 18 forty years ago and much less experienced then. Personally I think I am much more sexual and sexually liberated now than I was then. I believe the sexual revolution occured in the mean time.
I wonder if you are not confusing feminine mistique and sexual behaviour with romance? I think there is far less romance happening in our culture today than there was forty years ago. Perhaps this also has a lot to do whith the sexual revolution of the 60's-mid 80's. This is when you asked each others name after you had been to bed and had sex.
Perhaps both men and women need to put more romance back into their dateing behaviour along with courtesy and respect. | |
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Posted: 10/20/2006 7:25:26 PM | 40 years ago you would have worn a suit and tie and spats. (Ok, maybe 50 years ago on the spats) but you still would have had your hair neatly trimmed and combed, no goatee/sideburns, maybe a cardigan and tie at home, but in at work it woudl be suit and tie and polished shoes.
Dont ask women to revert back to a bygone era unless you are willing to do it yourself.
(and for the record, I wear dresses and heels more than I do slacks anyway, except when I'm riding my bike, kinda hard to straddle a harley in a miniskirt and not get arrested). | |
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Posted: 10/20/2006 8:17:18 PM | | I only dress up when someone's getting married, buried, or I have to go to court. The problem with panty hose is that you need a good butt scratch after wearing them. | |
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