I'm starting to *like* pantyhose again :o

by rebel8 30 Replies latest jw friends

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  rebel8

  What has come over me?! I haven't worn pantyhose for ~20 years, except for the odd special occasion in winter.

  Field service really ruined me for pantyhose. Sitting on those hot sweaty vinyl seats, getting up every so often to go out in the steaming heat....and freezing my jewels off in the winter...OMG...I hated hose!! I remember butt-shaped wet spots on the seats when the ladies got up! Grrrrrrooooooooooooooooossssssssss!

  After de-Borgifying...my bizarre former boss actually complained and mocked staff if they got dressed up. Her preference for our dress was a tank top 2-3 sizes too big ("so it won't show your breasts"), denim prarie polygamy skirt, flip flops with snaggly toenails, and no makeup ("because it looks fake"). Bonus if the clothes had holes or stains. (She gave my coworker a magic marker to color over the stains on her skirt.)

  I never got used to wearing overly casual clothing while trying to take myself seriously as a professional. I found it depressing.

  Now my job requires professional dress. Not only that, it's 1960s professional rules! Hosiery is required. But we have air conditioning, which makes it totally tolerable.

  And I'm starting to notice how much better it looks (on most people). I don't have to look at dirt-ridden toes or nails deformed by fungi. I don't have to see anyone's veins or stubble. It's nice.
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  No Room For George

  This thread is up my alley.......
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  Violia

  retro is big now. everything old is new again.
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  unshackled

  An older sister in my hall didn't believe in shaving her legs. So you'd see all this black leg hair smashed up against and some sticking out of her pantyhose. The meetings in which she was in your line of sight we particularly tortorous.
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  undercover

  I like the little way the line runs up the back of the stockings
  I've always liked those kind of high heels, too, ya know I...
  No, no, no, no don't take 'em off. Don't take...leave 'em on
  Yeah, that's it...a little more to the right
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  rebel8

  This thread is up my alley.......

  Was it the butt print or the fungi nails that appealed to you?

  retro is big now. everything old is new again.

  True. Thankfully this time around women are allowed to wear pants (as long as we're wearing hosiery of some kind).

  Some of my coworkers are wearing thong sandals with pantyhose. I think that's going too far!
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  RagingBull

  hosiery and butt prints had me at Hello! LOL
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  StoneWall

  Do any of your co-workers wear fishnets?

  There's just something about a woman in fishnets.

  It helps if she has a whip in one hand and a feather in the other. (for bonus points)
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  clarity

  Rebel, so glad you have another job. Don't expect a specific answer but where the h$$l were you working before?!!!!!!! lol Too funny.

  There is always that 'lady' who wears an ankle bracelet ...under the panty hose.

  I think the old seam up the back of the leg with high heels is a great look too!

  Don't think I'll be wearing them anytime soon tho......unless of course hell freezes over and I get a hot date.

  clarity
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  rebel8

  Thanks darth, that's one of my favorite songs. It was like being in a time machine--feathered hair and lace-trimmed ankle socks with pumps--lol

  Do any of your co-workers wear fishnets?

  Not to work. I did wear some fine-mesh fishnet knee-highs, with pants, and they're brown, for Pete's sake. You could only see an inch of my ankles when I sat down. I didn't think anything of it. Others....did.

  Don't expect a specific answer but where the h$$l were you working before?!!!!!!! lol Too funny.

  Suffice it to say, there were lots of social workers there and I didn't fit in. There's several reasons I didn't pursue social work in grad school, one of them being the Birkenstock unshaven look.

  Oh, the stories I could tell! It was totally bizarre there.

  There is always that 'lady' who wears an ankle bracelet ...under the panty hose.

  Is the gag because the bracelet is under the hose, or something else?