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Originally Posted by hal9000i

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...

The porn of the current generation is made by guys from the previous generation. It's always about twenty or thirty years out of date. The guys who were filming in the '60's, 70's and 80's grew up in the 30's, 40's and 50's. I knew a lot of those old guys. The sexiest thing in the world to them was a woman's legs in a pair of silk stockings. Particularly, the reinforced areas of the toe and heel, the garter straps and the stocking tops...especially the stocking tops. Here's an example. We all think that Martha Smith is covering up her underwear in this scene from Animal House. She's not. She's actually covering her stocking tops. Check it out.