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 A woman can boast with a wide range of garments unlike men.
Women wear tights and leggings,
high socks and thigh high socks which are trendy today, though stockings is the
only garment of women’s wardrobe which still excites men and evokes strong emotions.
Many artists, poets and photographers glorified stockings in their works. The art
of modern erotic photography provides the special tendency that sings for beautiful
wmen’s legs in alluring stockings.
It is known
today from historic books that stockings were created by men for themselves and
no women’s needs were considered then. The archeologists used to discover lots
of pictures of brave warriors wearing stockings in the territory
of Ancient Greece and Persia.
The stockings used to be knitted from the
wool yarn. The skills of stocking knitting were forgotten in the Medieval Europe
and so called leg wear was made from the fine leather or textile until the
English priest William Lee invented the first knitting machine in the world in 1589.
Then stockings were made from velvet and silk to go out for various functions
and the stockings from wool were knitted for every day wear. Ladies from high
society were too afraid to try the stockings on to evaluate the comfort and
coziness thereof. The first woman who afforded wearing stockings was Jeanne-Antoinette
Poisson, the marquise de
Pompadour, favorite of the French King Louis XV. All the other fashionmongers
from the high society followed her and soon all ladies could appraise the
advantage of stockings. Later men replaced stockings with long trousers. Women made
them the tool of seduction and temptation since the length of skirts went
shorter with the time and their shapes were possible to see and enjoy.
In the
middle of the XIX century there appeared the tendency to decorate the women’s
stockings with the embroidery, laced knitting, beads and pearls. The colors
changed and the most fancy color stockings were manufactured from orange to
scarlet red. Almost right up to the early XX century stockings were made from
cotton and Lisle thread. The stockings from the natural silk were too costly
and only wealthy ladies could afford them.
In 1910 the
formula of synthetic silk was revealed and silky items were made too fine and
tender unlike those from other materials. However, the real storm in the
hosiery industry occurred in twenty nine years only when nylon was invented.
Stockings from nylon were promoted by ad campaigns in America to state that stockings
became more delicate, elastic and finer than the cobweb.
In 1959 the
Americans first manufactured stockings from spandex. Spandex aka lycra is the
synthetic fiber which allows the skin breathe as compared with the nylon and
the spandex stockings were very durable. Later on lycra was revealed to be more
rentable and money-saving. In the soonest time lycra was used to manufacture
tights not stockings which appeared to be more thrifty. Furthermore, mini
skirts were trendy then and stockings with suspenders would look too vulgar to
match them.
We suppose
that most women consider the stockings as the stylish and sexual accessory for
romantic dating and love but not as the basic garment of women’s wear. Chantal
Thomas, the fashion designer from France, committed to revive the
former fame of stockings when she presented them especially as the sexual
lingerie. Her collection of lavish and refined underwear was the real triumph.
Such brands
as Agent Provocatuer (Great Briatin), Victoria`s Secret (USA), Wolford (Germany)
and Calzedonia (Italy appear to be the leading world acknowledged lingerie
manufacturers offering high quality items.
When
choosing the lingerie at stores, you’d better pay attention to two absolute
signs of good quality. First, the scent matters. The reputed manufacturers
treat their products with the special extract with the pleasant expensive odorants.
Second, the shape of stockings matters, either. The stockings with the
anatomical structure that repeat the leg shape are more preferred.
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