Ad for Panti-Legs, which (beginning about 1959-1960) was the first commonly sold women's pantyhose.
Posted on 10/17/2019 5:40:07 AM PDT by NOBO2012
Don’t forget that when they do run you can cut off both legs, tie in a knot, put conditioner on your hair, place it on your conditioned hair, work for a few and have the best conditioned hair on the block. :D
Then use them for plant ties in the garden.
That's on orders of the Queen, for any official appearances by or with members of royalty. Even Sparkles has had to cover up on official occasions.
“”you needed them with the mini and micro-mini skirts.””
Can’t say I ever wore a mini skirt - at or just above the knees was my style. Some of my favorite dresses were that length so I’ll go along with late ‘60’s - have pictures that would have been taken then.
That’s one reason I loved working in downtown Sacramento - we could shop on our lunch hour and find the cutest clothes in small shops or even in the large department stores which probably no longer exist on K Street..I guess K Street as such doesn’t exist any longer either.
The ‘60’s were tumultuous but when you had to work for a living, it was only noticed when on the news and come to think of it, it was on the news A LOT...You caught up with it on the 6 o’clock news. It was a good day when RR was giving protesting students a piece of his mind!!! It was a good time for America when RR was in charge...period!
So did mine. Whoever invented pantyhose should be shot!
Fashion was a lot of fun in the 1960s-70s, even the gaudy 80s and into the early 1990s. In recent years it’s become boring to me. There doesn’t seem to be much ‘style’ to it; or if there is, I don’t get it. (I don’t get green and purple hair, either...)
The guys were talking about yoga pants earlier - they’re ugly! and very few women can look really good in them.
=:-)
My wife, at 56, can still wear things like that. She has great genes - and great legs! - Yeah, I’m a lucky guy....
Good for you and God bless you and your gorgeous wife.
I’ve seen the Japanese socks.
I’m not sure how my father came by them. He became a Marine who enlisted - as many men did - immediately after Pearl Harbor, even though he was too old to be drafted.
And again, like many of his generation who served, he would never talk much about his War experience. (He actually told me, at one point when I asked about his experiences, that men who have seen war don’t want to talk about it.)
I know that his outfit served in some way at Iwo Jima; and after the war ended, he somehow wound up in Hawaii. (Maybe he bought the Japanese fans, the socks, the enameled matchbook covers - all the stuff he brought back - there.)
He wouldn’t talk about the War, and he died before I was old and thoughtful enough to really engage him on the issue. I just remember one conversation - a hot Summer night, when I couldn’t sleep and he was sitting up with an abscessed tooth. I think the power had gone out - maybe there had been a thunderstorm, and that was what ignited his memories - I can’t recall the circumstances clearly.
But in that hot Summer darkness, he told me about a terrible storm that hit his ship in the Pacific. He told me how the enormous waves and rolling of the ship made him realize how small and insignificant he was against the sheer power of Nature.
I must have been no older than 13 or 14 at the time; and it was the last time my Daddy ever talked to me about the War.
I’ve never forgotten it.
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing! My father was a Vietnam veteran. My husband has heard some of his stories, but he wouldn’t tell them when I was up.
It’s possible that, from the male standpoint, there is more respect for some things that shouldn’t be spoken about excessively.
(In my experience at least, we women sometimes talk far too much; words are never adequate to some experiences, and just cheapen the underlying meaning. But we women MUST talk...)
That's certainly true, not even With the Old Breed.
That looks like a good book.
I loved how I looked when I wore hose - pre-retirement. I hated the discomfort, though. Much like high heels. Eleven years after retirement I still have 10 boxes of Leggs in my drawer. Why?
It’s very intense. My daughter in the Marine Corps in Okinawa says they’ve visited some of the battle sites.
Ad for Panti-Legs, which (beginning about 1959-1960) was the first commonly sold women's pantyhose.
1964 sounds right or a little bit earlier - certainly not as early as ‘59-’60. I said on the thread the other day that I still have a supply of them. Someone mentioned how expensive they are today - I didn’t even know they were still sold. I got all mine in the later years from a marketing program of so many pair a month. I think it worked like a bookclub - you responded if you didn’t want to receive any in a current month. You had a choice of colors; black, beige, tan etc. Worked out well to have them handy and not have to shop for them. I just checked my packages and the company was “Silkies”....and still in business.
Thanks...interesting.
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