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Post by cosmoblue on Dec 20, 2007 20:08:23 GMT -5
What type of stockings do you wear and where do you get them? Do you wear garters to hold them up?
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Post by Mrs. Goblin on Dec 20, 2007 20:19:37 GMT -5
I wear plain white cotton stockings from Jas, Townsend. However, unlike this picture: www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/17401807.jpgI garter mine just below the knee, otherwise they slip off my plump leg. I use two lengths of grosgrain ribbon as garters. I just tie them into bows. They sit just under my knee, at the indent above the fullness of my calf. I very rarely have to adjust them. Every once in a while an energetic dance will work the stocking free of the garter and I have to retire for repairs, but this happens so seldom, it is a price easily paid. |
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Post by Val on Jan 7, 2008 21:09:22 GMT -5
I had a pair of white and black stockings I bought from someone (can't remember who) but they got holes in the toes pretty fast. They were a little thick for the shoes I was wearing so I found some ladies trouser socks and they work pretty well. I also tie ribbons under my knees to hold them up.
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Post by dawnluckham on Jan 7, 2008 21:20:28 GMT -5
Land's End sells some nice silk knee socks, but these are really modern knee socks.
Smoke and Fire has also started carrying silk re-enactor socks, but like most re-enactor socks, they're one size fits all and that often means the foot is too big for most women.
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Post by Lady Serendipity on Apr 7, 2008 21:50:55 GMT -5
If my ball gown is a sheer white overlay over a peach underdress....and I'm wearing black shoes...
....would I go with white hosery? Did they ever wear nude colored? Or go without?
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Post by cosmoblue on Apr 8, 2008 13:18:54 GMT -5
If my ball gown is a sheer white overlay over a peach underdress....and I'm wearing black shoes... ....would I go with white hosery? Did they ever wear nude colored? Or go without? White stockings would be the way to go. Nude was occasionally done but it was a bit scandalous. |
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Post by lauren on Apr 21, 2008 11:26:40 GMT -5
I found some all cotton knee socks at Macy's. They work quite well .
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Post by dawnluckham on Apr 23, 2008 10:11:48 GMT -5
My new silk stockings from Smoke and Fire have arrived and they're quite nice! I may have to shorten the foot at the toe as this 'one size fits all' thing doesn't make my feet the same size as a mans'.  |
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