# Ladies, got a question for ya **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 24, 2013, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-got-a-question-for-ya/651232 "2013-02-24T07:16:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-got-a-question-for-ya/651232/1 "2013-02-24T07:16:40Z")
Are fishnets back in vogue now, or did they really go out. Kinda surprised me tonight seeing two ladies with one definite set of fishnets, and the other was wearing a hosery product that at first glance was fishnetty, but it turned out to be just a pattern in a pair of hose. Secondly, who sells these things, just curious on that score. Declan ---
**Author:** ![LilRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@LilRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilRoses)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-got-a-question-for-ya/651232/2 "2013-02-24T07:51:38Z")
I have seen these fishnets around on the fashion sites, as of late. Heidi Klum had a pair on the other night. But she also wore them with open toed shoes. Fashion fail! I will never wear fishnets. And the world will thank me for it! ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-got-a-question-for-ya/651232/3 "2013-02-24T08:02:27Z")
I won’t. Nothing makes a woman look better than fishnet stockings. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-got-a-question-for-ya/651232/4 "2013-02-24T08:12:42Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I won’t. Nothing makes a woman look better than fishnet stockings. Sorry, but they are only ok for girls too young to wear them. The slightest bit of adipose and they are, indeed, a fail, Heidi notwithstanding. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-got-a-question-for-ya/651232/5 "2013-02-24T08:44:41Z")
What about those pattern ones? They don’t have to be made out of real fishnets. It’s the look. If you’ve got legs, and you want to show them off, it’s the way to go. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-got-a-question-for-ya/651232/6 "2013-02-24T12:41:54Z")
Haven’t seen much of what I would have called fishnets a few years back, but lots of ones with patterned holes in them walking around DC. Not that I’ve been looking at anyone’s legs other than my girlfriend’s, of course. I like them. We picked some up on out last clothes shopping venture. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-got-a-question-for-ya/651232/7 "2013-02-24T12:52:22Z")
I just keep hoping my visible veins will converge into a fishnet pattern. :eek: OK, not really. I wear long pants or jeans all the time and I don’t think I own a pair of hose of any description. But I never liked fishnets anyway, even when I wore dresses and hose, and I have no idea what’s in style and what isn’t. I just needed to let my inner smartass out. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-got-a-question-for-ya/651232/8 "2013-02-24T13:28:51Z")
Yes, they’re back in fashion, Hallelujah praise the Lord… says the woman who can’t stand regular pantyhose and who can’t wear skirts without either pantyhose or the much-cooler (in the physycs sense) and much-more-resistant fishnets. _looks both sides_ Five years ago I had a project in Scotland; between that and a sabbatical, I spent two years there. Unlike in Spain, where fishnets were unfindable at the time, there I found them in any supermarket or lingerie store. I proceeded to ask about them in every lingerie store I saw in Spain. Eventually they started timidly appearing, but oh my GAWD, they were all the plain-fishnet pattern and the colors were either “hen party hi-liter” or the boringest ones in the lingerie palette. I proceeded to ask about “fishnet stockings in other colors, maybe patterned?” in every single lingerie store I saw. There may or may not have been other women doing so, but I asked in well over a hundred stores in many different locations. This year there’s patterns, and colors… :evil: ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-got-a-question-for-ya/651232/9 "2013-02-24T13:40:33Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I just keep hoping my visible veins will converge into a fishnet pattern. They come in a wide range of sheerness. Some have a very dense pattern, such that they’re more like thick stockings with small lacy patterns running through them. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-got-a-question-for-ya/651232/10 "2013-02-24T13:54:19Z")
I like them. At 56, I’m getting a little too old for them, but I think they’re sexy. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-got-a-question-for-ya/651232/11 "2013-02-24T14:56:33Z")
Echoing the above: patterned tights, including fishnets, are very much back in vogue. You can buy them at Target and the like. And in even better news, I recently discovered how even an older woman with curves can wear fishnets and look hawt: colored tights \*under \*the fishnets! I wore this for a show recently; black dress that came just above the knee, with a red scarf, red tights and black fishnets, with black calf height heeled boots. I was fairly amazed at how slimming and saucy it looked, even though I’m well above the BMI generally considered sexy. I would, however, recommend that curvy women choose their 'nets with care. I found a good pair made for plus size, so the pattern wasn’t distorted around my thighs. Even thin but curvy women don’t look great when the tiny diamonds below are suddenly ovals at the knees! ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-got-a-question-for-ya/651232/12 "2013-02-24T15:31:57Z")
> [@Declan](#): > > Secondly, who sells these things, just curious on that score. Everywhere? You can buy them at Macy’s, you can buy them at Target, at Kohls, probably at TJ Maxx, basically anywhere that sells any sort of pantyhose. There are lots more strongly patterned hosiery styles recently. But fishnets themselves are not, and never have been, a hard to find or specialty item. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-got-a-question-for-ya/651232/13 "2013-02-24T22:41:00Z")
Thanks Ladies, normally the only time I would remember seeing fishnets is at halloween. So it was kind of a surprise to see them last night at the bar. I was wondering whats next, shoulder boards, but no , it turned out that some girl was wearing a pair of handcuffs lol. Declan ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-got-a-question-for-ya/651232/14 "2013-02-24T23:18:24Z")
I think they make women’s legs look like suet bags. Not flattering in the least. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-got-a-question-for-ya/651232/15 "2013-02-25T00:01:17Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > And in even better news, I recently discovered how even an older woman with curves can wear fishnets and look hawt: colored tights \*under \*the fishnets! I wore this for a show recently; black dress that came just above the knee, with a red scarf, red tights and black fishnets, with black calf height heeled boots. I was fairly amazed at how slimming and saucy it looked, even though I’m well above the BMI generally considered sexy. This I have not seen. I’ll suggest it. > [@BobLibDem](#): > > I think they make women’s legs look like suet bags. Not flattering in the least. I think what you’re thinking of and what other in the thread are talking about are not the same thing. The popular stockings I see on businesswomen are generally not square or diamond patterned. Much more intricate. I searched in Google for “patterned stockings”, but careful there because image search pulled up some pictures of women wearing nothing but stockings :eek:. ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-got-a-question-for-ya/651232/16 "2013-02-25T00:17:06Z")
Good lord, in London they’ve been back in for years - I’ve worn them to work, and I didn’t work in a particularly bohemian or out-there sector. They’re pretty mainstream here. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-got-a-question-for-ya/651232/17 "2013-02-25T00:26:09Z")
> [@Ruken](#): > > This I have not seen. I’ll suggest it. These are not my legs (I wish!) but [this is the effect](http://mairoseboutique.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/raspberry-fishnets.jpg). Rowr! (This may be a single garment; I had a pair of black fishnets when my director asked me to add some red to the outfit. So I put red tights under the black fishnets for the same effect.) ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-got-a-question-for-ya/651232/18 "2013-02-25T00:32:29Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > These are not my legs (I wish!) but [this is the effect](http://mairoseboutique.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/raspberry-fishnets.jpg). Rowr! (This may be a single garment; I had a pair of black fishnets when my director asked me to add some red to the outfit. So I put red tights under the black fishnets for the same effect.) I agree that is a nice effect. I think a shopping trip is in order. ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-got-a-question-for-ya/651232/19 "2013-02-26T01:42:41Z")
I want to know where you saw those ladies? I like fishnet stockings and think they are great. Seriously, they are complimentary to many women regardless of build or age, and can be worn with many styles of clothing. Go Fishnets!