# Women and pretty shoes and stockings or lack thereof...and shoe stores and shoe sales people.

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 1, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-pretty-shoes-and-stockings-or-lack-thereof-and-shoe-stores-and-shoe-sales-people/552255 "2010-09-01T14:14:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-pretty-shoes-and-stockings-or-lack-thereof-and-shoe-stores-and-shoe-sales-people/552255/61 "2010-09-03T13:40:24Z")

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My rule is simple and it’s always worked fine for me. Tights in winter, stockings in spring and fall, bare legs (almost always with open-toe shoes/sandals) in summer. Or maybe it could be stated as tights below 40ºF, bare above 80º, stockings in between. That’s for the office. Otherwise, who cares.

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**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-pretty-shoes-and-stockings-or-lack-thereof-and-shoe-stores-and-shoe-sales-people/552255/62 "2010-09-03T14:48:13Z")

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I’m glad I saw this thread, because I’ve been confused about this for some time! I’m at the point where I don’t know whether to wear foot coverings with _any_ shoe, and if so what kind…

Anyway, I’m forty and have always lived in Florida. I still prefer hose, for all the reasons \*\*Scarlett67 \*\*listed. I’ve given up the flesh-toned ones to avoid becoming a clueless old lady. However, when it comes to the sheer off-black hose, you will have to peel those off my cold dead legs, ya pervert!

I have some fishnets too, but those don’t do much for the foot sweat problem.

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