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Stockings are typically supported in one of three ways. The most common way is to wear a suspender belt (... known as a garter belt) that goes around the waist and drops suspenders that are clipped to the tops of the stockings. The second most common means of support is via 'stay-up' technology, where the inside of the top of the stockings has added to it a band (typically silicone) of elastic but highly tractive material that resists slipping down the thigh. This is considerably less reliable in the sense of assuring that the stockings do not fall down, and depends a great deal on the geometry of the actual leg. Further, the elastic can be uncomfortably tight, leaving red marks and possibly aggravating varicose veins. The least common means of support is the circular elastic garter that is slipped up over the top of the stocking and which is intended to hold the stocking by essentially clamping it to the leg.
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Jobst Women’s UltraSheer Firm Support Thigh High Stockings: These firm graduated compression thigh high stockings precisely support legs, while the silicone-coated yarns give wearers a smooth, sheer look. These support thigh high stockings, in fact, guarantee 50 percent more sheerness than any other graduated support hosiery on the market. Please remember... that if you’re wearing support hosiery for the first time, you should try a lower support level (light or moderate) first in order to get used to the tighter feel of graduated support thigh high stockings.
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Sexy costumes ... often come with white stockings. You have the hot nurse at the hospital costume and that is never complete without the sexy white stockings. There’s also the French maid costume and that always has stay-up white stockings which are garterized to keep them in place. The popular catholic schoolgirl costume cannot be seen without the wearer putting on a pair of knee high white stockings with the plaid skirt. Any costume, whether it may be a bar maid costume, a fairytale story book costume, or a princess costume, can come off as demure and sexy just by topping off the look with a pair of white stockings.
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Stockings somehow manage to cunjure up a feeling of smouldering sexiness that is unequalled. Hold Ups are fantastic and great if you're on the move a lot and don't fancy fiddling with a suspender belt here and there but as yet, they have not managed to knock out stockings. They are still seen as beautiful, sexy, alluring and the ultimate in femininity.
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Jordan is wearing a Santa’s hat, a pair of red stockings and a Santa-style baby doll present delivery kit. She has a red scarf draped around Peter’s neck. She holds one end, making ready to: a) drag him off for more lovin’; b) strangle him; c) hang him from the tree.
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Full-fashioned stockings are knitted flat, then fashioned, or shaped by mechanical manipulation by programmed chains that articulated cams to drop needles from the knitting process creating the famous "fashioning marks" on the backs of the stocking. (The little V's on the back near the seams are created when a stitch is cast off, just like in hand knitting a sweater) The stockings are then joined at the back on a looping machine by hand, creating the seam up the back. The actual knitting is done on a flat knitting machine first developed in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England by William Cotton in 1864.
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