Here's a stocking question

[mysterygal]

Are those fighting words Marc? Tip: DO NOT mess with a red head!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Mess with 'em? No way. Redheads are made for messin' around with! lol

(Just pulling your leg. You really are one of the cool ones.)


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[mysterygal]

lol thanks

 

[Caledonia]

Are those fighting words Marc? Tip: DO NOT mess with a red head!

I'm concurring a lot while here today, and I concur with that one too. And especially don't mess with a Scottish redhead. We've got skean dhu's and know how to use them! Not to mind wild, untamed haggis, and an above level knowledge of kilts and sporrans. Oops, think I'm degenerating into a tourist advert!

 

[mysterygal]

lol You know I was only letting him off easy...we ALL know he was afraid to meet the challenge! I'm only part Irish...but like my grandma says, it only takes a little bit in you sometimes to get the temper! We'd make a scary combo me and you Cal!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Believe me, my redheaded great-grandma (God rest her soul) was of Irish stock, redheaded, and NOT to be messed with. Thanks to her, I've had firsthand experience with a redheaded Celtic woman. Then there was that redheaded ex-girlfriend (mine, not hers) ...

As the wife of a farmer / gypsum factory foreman, my great-grandma (her name was Grace) did mend her own stockings, and probably quite well. How's that for being sort of on-topic?


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[Wild Root]

Ok guys, I know this is all in fun but, please remember not every on is in on the joke... or, find's it funny.

On topic now: I have dated a few girls who wore fish-nets... they weren't the extreme ones you see but, they were the type with the seam... yeah, I'm a guy, I liked the way they looked. My self though, I enjoy non-fishnets... a little classier if you will.

=WR=

 

[mysterygal]

Believe me, my redheaded great-grandma (God rest her soul) was of Irish stock, redheaded, and NOT to be messed with. Thanks to her, I've had firsthand experience with a redheaded Celtic woman. Then there was that redheaded ex-girlfriend (mine, not hers) ...

As the wife of a farmer / gypsum factory foreman, my great-grandma (her name was Grace) did mend her own stockings, and probably quite well. How's that for being sort of on-topic?


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:eusa_clap Very well done on pulling it all together (keeping on topic )
I remember my grandmother mending her own stockings as well, but she's like me, when there's something wrong with them, throw them out and buy a new pair.

 

[Caledonia]

My grandma also I think, except I remember it wasn't very well done and she'd have these big scar like seams where she just pulled the material together and over-sewed it! lol But as somebody else earlier said, nail varnish is great. Except nobody told me it should be clear, so when I was very, very young, I'd have splotches of red varnish which I put on while the tights were on my legs, so they stuck to my leg to boot! I think stocking mending must be an art.

 

[Lauren]

I'm with root, please back on topic

 

[Caledonia]

Sorry

 

[scotrace]

Maybe a chance to ask

You know, there are so many different stocking types for ladies, it's rather hard for a fellow to keep up. Let's see if I have this straight:
Regular "stockings" are full-leg and held in place with some kind of clippy thingy.
Thigh-Highs are not as long and held up by an elastic ... rubber band doodad.
Knee-highs go with pants and have elastic to hold them up.
Footies are... what are they for anyway?
Is that right?

Pantyhose are the devil's own spawn and should not be included in a discussion of stockings.

I can't believe anyone would spend the time required to mend something that cost so little to replace. And as was mentioned, the net is SO fine... how on earth would you do it?
Outside the conext of a Great Depression or wartime shortages, of course.

 

[Caledonia]

Apart from the fact that "pants" are "knickers" or "panties" over here, which has led to much confusion I can tell you, you're bang on! Full and proper stockings are held on by the clippy thingy which comes usually in 2 per leg or 4 and rarely 6 per corset or girdle. The rubber doodahs are called "Hold Ups" and based on the old garter which was prevalent pre-30s, ie the stocking was pulled up the leg but not fastened by the clippy thing but instead held on by a totally separate tie-on (then elastic) circlet - this led to many a many early varicose vein and is not to be recommended! Knee highs are hold ups but below the knee, and Footies are, well, you said it!

And mending is in direct proportion to your income, or as in earlier decades, your income, the material you have to work with, and the availability of the item.

 

[nightandthecity]

definitely on topic

I recently picked up three pairs of mint, in packet, 1940s fully fashioned stockings in a charity (thrift) shop for....50p a pair!! They were CC41 (1941 utility scheme) marked and best of all SILK - not nylon. Back in WW2 real silk stockings were the rarest of the rare, the dream of factory girls, the currency of spivs and randy GIs.

Two pairs had the original price tags on of 8/6d and 10/-. Now, that's officially about £11 and £15 in modern money. Around $20 and $30. But I decided to find out what the relative value was in real terms. It turned out that that sort of money was about two weeks wages for a domestic servant or a third of a weekly wage for a land girl. That it was about half the weekly rent. Or the price of a weeks meals in the works canteen. In real terms these had cost someone a mini fortune (which could be why they had never been worn!)

Anway, the point I'm getting to is that it was much cheaper to repair them than to buy a new pair. In the course of my research I found several references which said that most hosiery stores had a professonial repairer on hand who would darn ladders and holes for a small sum.

So there you are. In the UK at least we mended them.

 

[Tourbillion]

So you do darn the stockings to repair them? That is wild.

I have darned cashmere sweaters, but just about everything else gets thrown out.

I would consider darning silk or fancy full fashioned because they are crazy expensive in my size (size 11 1/2 to 12 opera length or extra-long).

Question is where does one get 15 denier silk and nylon in various colors?