Stockings HQ Has Piles of New Pantyhose and Stockings

After all the celebrity craziness the last two days, I feel the need to take a deep breath and end the week by getting back to the basics. Thankfully, Stockings HQ has made it easy for me by adding an astonishing number of new products to the site, including these black backseam nylon pantyhose by Levante. The entire site is awash with stocking and hosiery steals at the moment, but especially worth a mention is the fact that Cervin fully-fashioned, seamed and RHT stockings seconds are back in stock at spectacular discounts from the original retail price.

Sigh...I already feel calmer.

How to Wear a Garter Belt

I ran into this very basic garter-belt-wearing instructional video last month on Fool For Your Stockings a very simple and fun celebration of one man's obsession with stockings. He mixes photos of real women (including me, once) with those of celebrities (who I suppose are, technically, real women, too) and includes other media when appropriate. I enjoy his collection of tutorials, which include how to walk in stilettos, and how to put on black fully-fashioned nylons, which involves a lot more bending over to show your heiny to the camera and caressing of thighs than I had realized, no wonder I have issues with wrinkling!

The site is discreet, but as I have yet to look at every single page. I would suggest that if you are concerned at all, clicking through on the links above may be safer at home than at work.

Stockings, Suspenders and Girdles, Oh My!

Here's a brief fashion show of stockings, suspenders and girdles by What Katie Did a London lingerie company built literally from the ground up on stockings by lingerie designer Katie Halford. In 1999 when she couldn't find seamed stockings at a non-ridiculous price, she ordered a bunch of stockings wholesale and sold them herself on a website. I have to admit, I really like her style.


Today, the company makes a full line of vintage-style hosiery, lingerie and corsets adapted for the modern woman from vintage patterns. Delicious is really the only word I can think of to adequately describe her collections. This fashion show is fun, though low on production values, and I love the way Girl #3 shakes it!

Fishnets and a Cuban Have Landed

The Wide Lace-Top Fishnets I was craving from Stockingirl have finally arrived in the store. There's just something I love so much about the size of this particular fishnet. In the oh no they didn't category, they have come out with a fishnet version of their gorgeous Madonna thigh high with the colored-lace top, (which normally has a sheer nylon bottom) in black/red, black/royal blue and black/pink. The Cuban-heeled thigh highs have two silicone bands to help them stay up without a garter belt and are 85% nylon/15% lycra to give you that retro fully-fashioned-stocking-look a little bit more on the run than the real deal. These would be great for a rushed morning, when you simply still had to have a vintage look.

The Seductive Power of Stockings

A wonderfully whimsical cartoon commercial from a German hosiery manufacturer that shows men drawn helplessly to Dolores and her beautiful bestockinged legs. I love the scene at about 1:38 where the men are blissfully hugging her ankles.

Stockings of the Day

These Cervin Madonna 1979 Logo Series seamed nylon stockings are the single pair of stockings that made me finally think, "Yeah, there's really no arguing, stockings are pretty much freaking sexy," and then commit to wearing them as much as possible over pantyhose and tights. I placed an order with StockingsHQ the other day and was excited to buy a pair of these, finally, but they were unfortunately out of stock.  I'll get them next time, but until then, I'll make them Stockings of the Day for today and content myself with the beautiful photograph and perusing the current Cervin stockings at SHQ.