Long Legs in Stockings

Long legs and well fitting stockings can pose a problem for many women. Anyone who has never worn a pair of uncomfortable stockings probably hasn’t thought about leg size. Legs come in all shapes and sizes but if you are just a little bit one way or another outside ‘the norm’ then you have to take extra care when buying a pair of stockings.

Short skinny legs can lead to stockings sagging around the knees or bunching around the ankles and this really looks unattractive. Long skinny legs can end up with the wearer being ‘hobbled’ around the inside thigh area. This is turn tends to split the stockings at the crutch area and can lead to extra chaffing of the inner thigh which, quite frankly, hurts. It’s actually a friction burn and like all burns, needs special attention.

Women with long legs buying stockings need to take extra care when buying. Just because the pair of stockings is discounted at the supermarket doesn’t necessarily make them a good buy for you. Do you always check the sizes chart available wherever stockings are sold? If not, I suggest that you do so before buying any pair of stockings but especially if the stockings are not a known brand to you.

Some stockings made in some countries are only made and modelled on the sizes of the local women and as we all know unfortunately, western women are getting larger every year so what’s considered ‘large’ in some countries will only really be a ‘medium’ size in a western country.

Long legs and stockings usually need the extra large size not because of the weight factor but because of the stretch factor built in to these sizes. It is so much easier today with the type of spandex used in stockings as against when there were only nylon stockings available. The spandex used today in most brands of stockings is very fine and silky yet far more durable than nylon ever was or had the capability of being.

Silk stockings are usually more expensive than the spandex material commonly used but if you have long legs and need a special pair of stockings for a special occasion, then it’s worth spending the money and taking the time to visit a good lingerie store and being properly fitted with your right size. And you may get a very pleasant surprise to learn that the prices are more competitive than you originally thought.

Being fitted by a hosiery specialist at a lingerie store means the comfort level for women with long legs in stockings is immeasurable.

Who was Your Stockings Teacher?

Can you remember the first pair of stockings that you got? I do, vividly.

I got my first pair of nylon stockings as a part of my Christmas present from my Mother. I was so excited. You see, what it really meant was that my Mum now thought I was grown up enough to use nylon stockings instead of socks. It was a big moment in my life.

The other parts of my present that year from my Mum was a lipstick (very pale pink), some nail polish (also pale pink) and a nice dressing table (vanity table) set of brush, comb and hand-held mirror. Which, by the way, I still have and use today. The bristles in the hair brush are pigs bristle and quite expensive to buy today.

Here in Australia, Christmas always falls in the summer time and the day after Christmas, Boxing Day, we always went to the coast for our annual holiday. But this year for the first time, I had a pair of nylon stockings to wear to the dances that we used to go to every night. I felt so grown up and as chuffed as a rat with a gold tooth.

I will never forget putting my first ever pair of nylon stockings on for the first time. My Mum came and showed me how to roll the nylon stocking down between my thumb and fingers to the toes so I could just slip the stocking gently around and over my toes, and use my thumb and fingers to roll them up to my suspender belt.

I already had a suspender belt from having to wear those brown seamed stockings in the New England winter and gee whiz, they were uncomfortable. They never seemed to stay in one place and the suspender belt used to slip around and hobble me something terrible. But I guess young ladies weren’t meant to play soccer in stockings so that was probably why they were so uncomfortable.

But these new, as yet un-laddered, nylon stockings made me feel so grown up and attractive. And my Mum made me feel so good because she kept telling me that she was proud of me and how nice I looked. And my new pale pink lipstick and nail polish was just the icing on the cake.

Without my Mum there as my stockings Teacher showing me how to care and adjust my nylon stockings to be comfortable, I may not have ever made it to the dance in a pair of un-laddered stockings. She taught me how to grow into my new nylon stockings and feel proud of how they made me look.

Warm Regards,
Jan