I think we will just have to agree to disagree. I’m not certain which styles you are keeping up with if flesh colored panty hose are a part of it. I guarantee I would be able to tell you are wearing it. Its conceptually so absurd. Pulling a thin layer of skin colored skin-like material over your real skin. We dont do this for our bare arms…
And for all the things that models and movie stars don’t contribute to our society they DO actually end up either setting or spreading trends in fashion (which is probably the work of their stylist in the end) So if these are not the fashions you are keeping up with…where are you getting your information about trends? The red hat society of macon georgia?
I know I sound like a bitch but like I said earlier, its tough love. Women need to free their legs!
I used to tan easily, but these days it seems that my skin needs a bit of a jump start to get past anything darker than “disguising the fishbelly white” that is my natural starting color. I am not all that concerned these days, though. Tan or not tan, I tend toward looking paler because my hair is so dark. Even when I’m tan, though, one can still see the veins under my skin; they’re just harder to find when they’re slightly greenish under tan skin instead of bright blue under creamy white skin.
For what it’s worth nyctea, I’m with you. If I’m doing the professional business woman thing, I’m going to be wearing hose. And while I don’t wear “flesh” “nude” or “whatever the fuck skintone you call it” hose often, they still do have their place, in my humble and apparently conservative frumpy opinion.
Aha! I have an analogy for you. Wearing flesh-toned pantyhose is like wearing makeup. It’s conceptually absurd (we are painting and drawing on the front of our heads!), everyone knows you are wearing it (yes, even if you blend, blend, blend), and it looks artificial (my eyelids don’t actually sparkle). Yet most of us continue to do it, because it looks better than a bare face, and it’s part of a polished, put-together business look. What do you think?
I think women are brought up to feel terrible about themselves. They’re always too fat or too hairy or too smelly or too something and yet somehow millions are getting married and laid and kissed and whatever daily. I swear to you, this is not magic. Cosmo and Maybelline are not teaming up to make you pretty, they’re making you either flawed or evil little catty unpaid saleswomen who delight in telling everyone else they’re flawed.
I’m sorry, I just hate it. Someday they’ll figure out how to market wrinkle cream for penises and I’ll be in real trouble.
I’m pale as all get-out, and the older gal I work with has decided to name me “Blanche” because of it. My legs are almost paper white, my arms are pretty close, and I currently wear the lightest foundation from MAC, and it is just a tiny titch too dark. And… I love it. I’m a red-head, sans the freckles (mostly), and while I do turn red from any little thing, and get those crazy bruises, and you can see every little pore, it’s how I’m supposed to be, and it’s a fun look with black lingerie (but not black clothes… I look ill). And green shirts, and…
And except at work, I never have anyone tell me I look weird being pale.
And I never wear hose, unless it’s with garters, because I’m getting dressed up underneath my clothes.
Hi Trouble again, My legs are alot more white than yours and I wear shorts all the time, so I dont think you have to worry about showing off your legs lol. I must get some pics of me in shorts to show you what white legs really are.
Woo-wee, zombie legs! Don’t start sending in the reports, people — I’m leaving this one open because it’s never the wrong time for we women to discuss looking our best. Some of the photo links no longer work, so beware.
I am a fan of the black tights/black shoes look for winter, and consequently have a lot of black skirts. I’m still divided on the hose in the summertime look, as I, like many here, have pale legs. However, when we reach A Certain Age legs just don’t look as good, especially with no tan. I’m wondering if my bare-summer-legs days are getting behind me. I’ve got more flaw than good leg these days.
"I’ve had to stop shaving since the flesh just peels right off, and I have some decomp as well as adipocere and maggot infestation. Can I still wear shorts or a short skirt without wearing stockings? (It is technically before labor day.) Brains.
My legs are glow-in-the-dark pale but I refuse to wear clingy, sweaty, confining pantyhose in the summer. The only exception is if I’m getting all dressed up for an occasion, and even then it’s mostly to prevent blisters and sweaty feet from dress shoes. I wear the sheerest nude I can get. I’ll never be a leg model, but they’re the only legs I’ve got
In winter, I’m a fan of opaque or patterned tights with skirts. I wouldn’t go bare-legged in the winter because it’s goshdang cold out there and I don’t bother to shave my legs as often.
I have become a fan of maxi skirts in lightweight fabrics for summer and this issue goes away. Of course so do my legs but since they blind people with their whiteness and are also covered with (at this moment) 6 bruises it’s really for the best.
For those of you who like pantyhose, Kate Middleton, aka Duchess Catherine, aka the Princess, wears pantyhose most of the time and there are a lot of women following her lead. So at this point, wear or don’t wear as you please.
I’m reaching an age where I really don’t care if people are blinded by my lily-white legs. My current problem (well, each summer, anyway) is a bad case of sock tan, since my lower legs tan while I’m gardening, and I always garden with socks and heavy shoes on. Tanned legs are okay; white legs are okay; sock tans, less good. This is pretty much what I look like in sandals. (Except my feet are prettier.)
Hm, would pantyhose help hold zombie legs together or would putting them on be too destructive to delicate rotting tissues?
Nobody wants to see my pale legs and so I always wear hose. I prefer it anyway, even in hot summer (but it’s a dry heat!). Besides, ol’ Feynman is always in the back of my head, asking what do I care what other people think?
I don’t much care what most people think (witness the fact that I go around in cowboy boots most of the time), but I don’t want to offend my own high standards of How Ellen Should Look. Yuck, man, my bruisey, veiny, legs are distractingly offensive. Get out the fake tan lotion and/or some stockings, STAT.
