This is something I’ve always been curious about but, for some reason have never been able to find out! 
Anyway, Ladies. Do you prefer to wear stockings or pantyhose?
As a man i couldn’t imagine that Pantyhose would be comfortable, but most women who I have been able to find out 
have been wearing them!
I hope this is a proper forum to find out!
Frankie, do you mean stockings like the kind that are held up by a garter belt? If so, I wear pantyhose, only because the stockings are generally more expensive. The stockings I’ve tried with the elastic that’s supposed to hold up around your leg doesn’t seem to work for me, but maybe they’ve improved them since I bought them last. However, for me, nothing makes you feel sexier than a black garter belt and black stockings…woo woo!
And can it be that in a world so full and busy, the loss
of one weak creature makes a void in any heart, so
wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth
of vast eternity can fill it up!
-Charles Dickens “Dombey and Son”
they each have their merits. do you REALLY want to know this?
stockings are good for, well, accessibility, if you catch my drift. they are not so good for shortish skirts, at least in the concealment sense. they also have a tendency to fall down, making them less appealing for times you don’t want to be focused on your undergarments.
pantyhose can be very comfortable, i think, if they don’t have the “rolling cord of death” waistband. the RCOD is one of those very narrow waistbands that, given the slightest provocation can roll up into a strangling cord that you feel sure could cut right through your body and leave your upper torso gesturing stupidly at your severed lower body. (in long meetings, uncomfortable hose can trigger many unpleasant fantasies.)
the best thing, IMHO, about pantyhose is the anti-wiggle effect, freeing you to stride about without worrying about the natural womanly er, jiggling (there just is no more appealing term) that you know would be taking place, were it not for all the spandex.
You folks are probably too young to remember that evil apparatus that used to be associated with stockings:
The Girdle.
I guess they were supposed to improve the female figure, but even young women with no need for improvement wore them. They must have been horribly uncomfortable to wear. I can only surmise that their real function was to serve as a modern chastity belt. They certainly performed that function well. Be glad that you don’t have to contend with them any more.
Pantyhose (or better yet, Capezio’s tights) in the cold, cold winter; stockings and garters in the summer. If you look, you can still find the old-fashioned seamed stockings, too! And if you walk very slowly over subway grates, you can do your Marilyn Monroe imitation . . .
Bunny-
You are so right about the black garter belt thing. I think there is nothing sexier than a garter belt for no reason!
Eden-
I also have to admit I love that womanly ‘jiggling’ its great.
I appreciate everyones answers! Keep em coming! So far its 2 pantyhose to 1 stockings!
Wearing stockings & a garterbelt makes me feel like I have a secret that I’m dying to tell. I’m terrible with secrets… Oh yea, BTW, I’m a woman.
Hosery is a invention spawned from hell that was created to keep women worrying about hosery runs as opposed to something important ;). There are few inanimate objects that I hate more than hosery. I just wear pants.
…and the pantyhose were hung by the chimney with care…
At the hotel I used to work in part of my job was making sure my staff (almost all female) were properly groomed and dressed each day.
My question is why can’t they make hose that doesn’t run? I got so sick of being yelled at by H/R as my staff looked bad as the hose had runs; yet when I spoke to my staff, the ladies swore hose were good for about one or two wearings then they ran. Thus they couldn’t affrord to buy them every day.
I would think they can. Hell, they put a man on the freakin’ moon. Pantyhose that run=more money. However, I would expect that some people would pay alot for hose that don’t run. I wouldn’t. I’d rather get a sex change than have to wear hose more than once every 3 months. But that’s just me.
One of the funniest bits on the Benny Hill show, “Benny Kelly,” included an instance of Benny’s sidekicks Jackie Wright and Bob Todd copying Benny’s use of a “stocking mask” (they were bandits in the old West, and had robbed some women of their stockings). Benny seemed to be doing just fine with the one stocking he used, but Todd and Wright put on a pair of pantyhose! (Todd was about 6’1" and Wright about 5"6’). Boy, did they look silly! 
I wear pantyhose to work (cheap) but ALWAYS stockings with a sexy garter when going out…Very sexy feeling and looking…love 'em! Victorias Secret has the best stockings…gorgeous!
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Mary Ann.
Sorry, I thought this was the Mary Ann vs. Ginger thread.
OK, Mary Ann in pantyhose is my final vote.
They USED to make nylons that lasted – but that’s the kicker – they were probably really made of nylon.
I prefer hose and a garter belt, but only wear them, ahem, at home.
Once walked behind (on 2nd Avenue in Seattle) a poor clueless woman who had tucked her dress into her panty hose – don’t know why she didn’t feel the breeze.
And yes, I told her about it. (Resisted the impulse not to)
What the world needs is a Kevlar pantyhose. (pantyhoe?)
Panythose - I’ve tried the stay up by itself stockings a time or two, but it just didn’t work for me. And I’ve never had a lover that wanted them that bad.
Pantyhose run because they have to balance sheerness, elasticity & strength. (And color)
Kevlar can’t be used because it has no elasticity whatsoever & it starts out a rather sick yellow, so it would have to be dyed darker.
Both. Pantyhose or tights for short skirts or dresses (or just-over-the-knee-high stockings for the babydoll/schoolgirl look), thigh highs and a garter for “fun”, and trouser socks for pants.
Gotta go barefoot in jeans, though.
Veni, Vidi, Visa … I came, I saw, I bought.
I’m with most of the other posters here…stockings for those “special moments,” nylons for everything else. And I know what you mean, Eden, about the RCOD. That is a nightmare.
L’eggs makes an excellent nylon now, called Reliance. They do last longer, and don’t run as easily. They are also comfortable. I highly recommend them.
And WHY are maternity hose SO FREAKING EXPENSIVE??? I’ve been wearing queen-size regular hose, because those things are a fortune!
Stockings, without a doubt!
With stockings you don’t have the hanging down crotch thing. Also, if you buy a couple of pairs of the same stocking, you can still come up with a pair when you run a leg.
I am really rough on both pantyhose and stockings but I invented a money saving technique that I will share with the ladies and a few of the males with a fetish. I may not be the first to invent it but humor me.
Always buy the same brand of pantyhose in a certain color. The same brand of black, the same brand of tan, etc. This is important because shades vary between brands.
If you run a leg, instead of tossing it, cut off the ruined leg at the bottom of the panty so it looks like a pair of panties with only one leg. Stash it away in a drawer until you run another pair. Do the same thing with the second pair.
Put on the first pair, which includes the panty and the one leg, then put on the second pair, which also has a panty and one leg. Walla! You now have a new pair with an added bonus of tummy support because of the two panties.
Trust me.
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