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Originally Posted by lonmol
There WAS a period in the 1980's when stockings and garter belts made a comeback. Maybe your average high school cheerleader wasn't wearing them, but a lot of women were...at least briefly.
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I have an insight/experience to share that's related-- and I remember it so clearly, especially in light of what happened.
In 1990, we didn't have the internet. If you were a fan of pantyhose and heels, of shapely nyloned leg and ass back then, you eagerly looked forward to the monthly release of the magazine "Leg Show". Now the pictorials often had girls in garter belts/stockings, but there was just as much emphasis on pantyhose. There was also Pamela Peterson's "Pantyhose Parade" and her photo sets, but that's another story.
I remember reading the letters from viewers that they published, and there were always these old timers from the 50's and 60's asking for more girdles and garter belts, saying it was so much sexier and bemoaning the fact that time had passed this era by with the advent of pantyhose.
I remember clear as day reading this and laughing, thinking that pantyhose had indeed past these guys by, and a whole new generation had grown up with girls wearing hose. That's just the way it was I thought smugly.
Then it hit me. If time had passed these guys by, wouldn't it do the same for my generation? this was 1990, and pantyhose had been on the market for over 25 years by then... nah, I told myself, women have worn hosiery for the last 400 plus years...longer...so what's going to replace pantyhose anytime soon?
At the time, pantyhose seemed to be rock solid. All women wore them regularly. Little did I know that time frame was the start of a long down slide. First, nude and flesh color hose fell out out of fashion. By 1995 or so, black hose was the only hose being worn by younger woman. By the late 1990's, the bare leg had arrived...talk about a drought...
Just goes to show that nothing is forever and some things that you consider a given can just fade away...