Pussycat Dolls Fishnets & Stockings, Live Photos, Britney Spears Tour, Exclusive Pics

As I said earlier this week when I was giving a sneak peek of this post, one absolutely fabulous and very generous Stocking Vixen reader in Texas attended the Britney Spears, The Circus show on March 31st in Dallas and took his camera with him specifically to take photos for all of us, knowing that Britney and her opening act, The Pussycat Dolls, would not disappoint when it came to showing off their legs, wearing awesome heels and looking red hottentot in pantyhose and stockings.

Based on his stunning photographs, he was absolutely right. Every image above is a preview image and, when clicked upon will open into a much higher-quality image that's so good you can see the lines in the fishnets.

There's a lot going on in the hosiery department, so let's take a look.

• Four of the five dolls are wearing visible hosiery and they all have on fishnets of some kind. Though it's not clear in the preview images, both Dolls in stockings are wearing nude fishnets layered under their thigh highs. (It looks especially awesome in the higher-resolution photo of Kimberly doing the splits up the pole).
• The two Dolls in pantyhose without stockings seem on first glance to be wearing almost identical sequined fishnets, but a closer look reveals that brunette, Melody's pair has backseams and a denser allotment of bling than blonde, Ashley's.
  
• The red-haired Doll, Jessica, is wearing black, sequined fishnet stockings over fishnets. This is just about enough to cause an explosion in my tiny little fishnet-loving brain. Fishnets OVER fishnets? Now I can die.
• Kimberly's black opaque thigh highs seem to be working a little bit of the "am I a sock or am I stocking?" angle, which makes sense, given the sportiness of the rest of her look. What fascinates me most about these socks is that they are toeless, because her bare little toes peek out from her peep-toe boots. It's also possible that she's wearing a stirrup sock or a leg warmer. I would love to know.
• I wonder if Nicole was sad that she didn't get any fancy hosiery or if she comforts herself with the thought that she's the lead singer.

The Pussycat Dolls didn't do any costume changes during their show, but I think their hosiery was very creative and their costumer deserves a pat on the back for the choices and combinations. I also love it that the black boots are so tight that they seem to evoke latex in some cases.

I'm thrilled and grateful to be able to share these superb photos and have seen a couple from the Britney portion of the show already that are just spectacular. For now, please enjoy these wonderful shots and keep your eyes open for the next set of photos some time this week, I hope.

Photos of the Britney portion of the show are up now and they are amazing. Hooray!

Thank you from the bottom of my heart, K.

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How I Became a Stocking Vixen

I always wore skirts much more than my friends growing up, mostly with knee socks in elementary school, then with various shades of pantyhose and tights when I was in high school. Not because of any fetish that I was aware of, I just gravitated that way, partially because my waist is a lot smaller than my hips and it used to be much harder to find pants that fit properly. I did always like finding interesting hose and I owned a lot of it and I did like looking at my legs a lot. I can remember lying on the couch in my rec room with my legs and feet up in the air just looking at them and thinking, "Are they pretty? I think they might be, but can I know?" in a very typical girl-becoming-a woman, kind of way. I have no idea if there was something latent in there. I suspect there must have been because of how crazy the Hosiery Monster went once I let her out of the cage.

I have always thought other female legs were gorgeous. When I was pretty young, I can remember reading an article in People magazine about three different women who each claimed she was the model for the For Your Eyes Only movie poster, and I saved that magazine for years and can remember scrutinizing it fairly often, partially because one of the women said that she had been studying her legs since she was five years old and knew every curve and had no doubt they had used her legs in the final poster (they hadn't).

I do know when the switch flipped in my head though and hosiery and shoes became truly very tingly-charged for me. I was in a Designer Shoe Warehouse, of all places, buying boots and an incredibly good-looking couple was one aisle over from me and the man was kneeling at the woman's feet helping her try on different styles of black knee boots and I could tell he was desperate for her to buy these boots. She was wearing jeans, but the leg was rolled up and she had on a pair of very dark, dense lace black hose (couldn't tell what type) and the poor guy was putting her boots on and very incredibly slowly zipping up the boots while cupping her calf and it was obviously all he could do not to lick his way up her leg. The tension in the air was incredible.

Her calf was very slender and they were trying on boot after boot because they were all too big and he ran around the store, almost in a panic, because he really wanted her to leave with some boots and she was visibly losing patience for the whole endeavor. It was obviously "his thing" and she didn't get it (except I do give her props for wearing hose under her jeans). I just sat on my little shoe-trying-on bench with one foot halfway in the Franco Sarto boot I was going to buy and tried not to stare too hard or climb over the shoes and ask if he'd put boots on me, too.

For some reason, I left there not fixated on boots so much, as really focused on hosiery. Maybe it's because the boots weren't working out for her, but she was already wearing the hosiery, I don't know, but after that I started rabidly collecting photographs of hosiery I found online and buying piles of it in stores, then garter belts, then shopping online because I wasn't satisfied with what I could find in brick-and-mortar stores. It was at the point that I realized I was spending hours every single day looking at photos of hosiery or trying on hosiery or plotting my next hosiery purchase, that I thought it might be a very good idea to start this blog. Especially since I enjoyed the thinking and looking and wearing I was doing so much.

So, that's how I became so obsessed with hosiery. I think hosiery is an endlessly fascinating subject and, recently, my focus has turned towards stockings and thigh highs more than anything else, possibly because they are slightly more novel to me, I'm not certain. They definitely feel sexy, so I don't really need to dissect it too much. I'm just very busy enjoying myself and obviously a good stocking tease is something that really turns my crank. Crank turning is a good thing in my book.