I don’t wear pantyhose ever. Uncomfortable, unsexy, fragile, and annoying.
But I do wear tights. A lot.
And guess what?
I wear my panties over 'em!
Yes, girls. I am an “over.”
I don’t like tights that are too tight. So they tend to slide down a lot. Maybe a dozen years ago, I was complaining about my sagging tights, and a friend asked me why I didn’t just put my underpants over them. Crazy, I said. Then I tried it. And it worked wonderfully!
I admit that it looks totally ridiculous. Especially if I’m out of black underpants. 'Cause as silly as black underpants look over black tights, hot pink underpants look exponentially sillier.
Of course I wash them between wearings. And I’m completely squicked out by the people who are saying that they wear their pantyhose multiple times without washing them. They cover your feet! They’re the same as socks! Ewww!
This makes sense on the surface, but I have to ask…Just how tight are your panties?
It seems to me that in order to hold up sagging/slipping tights or pantyhose, they’d need to be spandex “foundation garment” type of panties at the very least and not the simple, cotton bikinis or lacy, silky numbers which I think would probably be pulled down by the tights. Maybe I am not thinking right but it just doesn’t seem like a pair of panties would be enough to hold them if they weren’t staying put on their own.
Weird. I have had that problem with panties, usually synthetic fiber ones. I also sometimes get my head hair snagged in the upholstery of car seats. Doesn’t seem to matter how trim either location is, either. So, maybe I just have hair that is the right diameter or something.
I also have thighs big enough to stretch every pair of hose I have ever tried to the absolute limit, leaving a wide, hair-snaggling grid of doom.
I didn’t know people still wore pantyhose! It’s been at least 20 years since I wore them; they give me terrible athlete’s foot and also I just assumed that they had gone out of fashion. I can’t wear them.
It took me years to get that the panty in pantyhose meant that you didn’t, in theory, need both. Then I actually tried it, and…well, let’s just say I’m a brunette. Very, very brunette. Thick, lustrous brunette. Without a Brazilian. And my pantyhose, back in the days when I wore them, were not of the fake suntan dark type. The effect was very much like a hairy wrestler in a light-colored leotard.
And yeah, the panties over the garter belt thing–I made that discovery at a very tense moment!
My panties aren’t tight at all. I don’t like tight anything. They’re just normal cotton high-cut underpants that probably need to be replaced because the elastic is getting weak.
I wore hose for the first time in 10 years last April to my step father’s funeral in San Antonio, TX. It was a formal occasion in the South, I didn’t even think twice, hose was appropriate for that situation.
I’m just not getting past the fact that I wear panties under my pantyhose/tights to have some natural fibers between me and the nastiness that pantyhose/tights are generally made of. I’m all about cotton and silk for my girly bits. I can’t fathom wearing them *over *the pantyhose/tights, because what would be the point? (Although I’ve never had a problem with mine falling down, provided they fit correctly.)
Count your blessings. I’ve never found a pair that fits correctly.
The synthetic fibers against the girly bits don’t bother me. You never wear microfiber undies? (Okay, maybe you don’t, but I do sometimes.)
Anyway, for those of you who’s tights fall down, I’d recommend at least trying the undies over thing. I guarantee you that you’ll feel like a damn fool, but if it works for you, you will be so happy.
You’ve convinced me anyway. If there comes a day when I must again wear pantyhose (although thigh highs are still readily available for situations that call for stockings, so I do not foresee needing pantyhose again) and if I feel them slipping, I am going to try panties over them. It sounds ridiculous, but also kind of fun, like a secret instead of “no one knows I am wearing my slinky underthings” it will be “no one knows I am wearing my underthings in the wrong order”. I just hope I don’t have a car accident or something the day I decided to give it a try.
What the…? Over!?? Unless you’re Superman, underwear goes *under *the rest of your clothing.
And I’m confused as to how pantyhose can fall down? On the rare occasions when I’ve had to wear them, they’re like thin elasticy things that stretch with a tighter band at the top. How do they get loose? Are people talking about two kinds of things? Theseare what I am thinking of.
If they’re falling down, it probably means that I got a pair that was too small and the crotch is very far below where it should be. (I used to believe the sizing charts on the back. Those are a horrible lie.) Underwear wouldn’t even fit on top. Plus, that would just be weird. It also never occured to me that someone would wear underwear over pantyhose.
Oh my! I feel like Pigpen. I do A LOT less laundry than most of you, seemingly. I do shower every day and I really can’t say I feel dirty, but, yes, I would get several days’ wear out of both bras and tights. And I’m not even disclosing about pyjamas…
Those of you whose tights fall down should try Falke tights. Never fall down and never rip. I fell off my bike last month and had a great big bleeding hole in my knee but the tights were not even broken. Those were the woollen kind but still.
Maybe it was me, who told you, Greenbean. I have shared my thinking with many friends who have become overs. Thank goodness you joined the discussion - I was starting to feel, unusual in my underlovely habits. (I learned that word ‘underlovelies’ here on the board - sorry I don’t recall who first used it. Much nicer than ‘panties’ or ‘underpants’).
Personally I don’t feel entirely dressed without the panties over. With only the panty hose on - regardless of the “panty” in the name, a wee cotton gusset is just not enough for me.
Should my skirt flip up coquettishly - and it has been known to do that - I’d rather give a glimpse of panty than a landing strip.
I don’t wear pantyhose that often, but when I do, I generally wear my undies over them. It’s just more comfortable because I don’t get bunched undies under nylon that I can’t deal with unless I go to the bathroom. But that’s just me.
If there comes a day when I must again wear pantyhose (although thigh highs are still readily available for situations that call for stockings, so I do not foresee needing pantyhose again) and if I feel them slipping, I am going to try panties over them. It sounds ridiculous, but also kind of fun, like a secret instead of “no one knows I am wearing my slinky underthings” it will be “no one knows I am wearing my underthings in the wrong order”. 
I just hope I don’t have a car accident or something the day I decided to give it a try. 
What the…? Over!?? Unless you’re Superman, underwear goes *under *the rest of your clothing.
