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Throwback Thursday: When Real Women Wore Hosiery
MOTUS A.D. ^ | 10-17-19 | MOTUS

Posted on 10/17/2019 5:40:07 AM PDT by NOBO2012

I’m not exactly sure what this means but it can’t be good. Here’s the deal:

I saw this photo of Fiona Hill arriving to testify, or whatever, in the Impeachment Inquiry, or whatever, conducted by the House Intelligence Committee, or whatever committee is investigating the President this week - I didn’t care enough to check but I presume at some point this circus has to move onto the Judiciary committee – and my only thought was:

“Oh look, Fiona’s wearing black stockings! Maybe the bare-legged look is finally over.”

Image result for bare legs and. hosieryCan I hear it for a return to grace?

So there you have it, my fever broke for a day or two. By repeating the soothing mantra “I don’t give a Schiff” I managed to suspend my rage by remembering a more civilized time when bare legs were considered vulgar unless you were wearing shorts.

For several days I was fine, ignoring everything leaked by the Kangaroo Kourt. Until yesterday that is, when the President met with members of Congress to discuss the Syrian situation and little Miss Fancy-Pantsy advised President Trump that with him “all roads lead to Putin.” She-of-little brain conveniently ignoring the fact that it was President Obama, not President Trump, who allowed Russia to get a foothold in the Middle East. And that it was Obama’s redline head-fake that created today’s mess.

The party whose political ideology brought slovenliness to virtually every level of human behavior only now thinks to ask “why the hell are we standing down”?  Unfortunately it was their squad that let their panties get in a bundle.

And I’m pretty sure they don’t know how to unbundle them so they’ll just blame President Trump. And continue to bitch about the incivility. Well if they insist on continuing this fight they might want to stock up on some of these:

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Uni-panties – They take a lickin’ and keep on kickin’

Posted from: MOTUS A.D.


TOPICS: Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: adamschiff; nancypelosi; syria; trump
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To: bgill

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


41 posted on 10/17/2019 8:48:54 AM PDT by ssfromla
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To: ssfromla

Then use them for plant ties in the garden.


42 posted on 10/17/2019 8:55:44 AM PDT by bgill
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To: OttawaFreeper
The times I’ve visited the U.K., I am that good bit surprised to see how pantyhose or stockings are still very much in fashion

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.

43 posted on 10/17/2019 8:58:23 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: Jamestown1630

“”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!


44 posted on 10/17/2019 9:51:04 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: jeffc
"My wife wore stockings and a garter when we met. 28 years later... no more =:-(..."

So did mine. Whoever invented pantyhose should be shot!

45 posted on 10/17/2019 11:41:46 AM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: Thank You Rush

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.


46 posted on 10/17/2019 12:13:56 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: mosaicwolf
I have a vague memory long ago of two stockings, two garters and nothing else...

=:-)

47 posted on 10/17/2019 12:45:40 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Magnum44

My wife, at 56, can still wear things like that. She has great genes - and great legs! - Yeah, I’m a lucky guy....


48 posted on 10/17/2019 12:52:39 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Tax-chick
Hey! They make 'flip flop socks' now; we saw some on the news just now that are like fingerless gloves; but these look more practical:

https://www.flipflopsocks.com/gallery/

After WWII, my father brought back from Japan something like this, that the Japanese women wore with 'geta'.
49 posted on 10/17/2019 3:03:03 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Shady

Good for you and God bless you and your gorgeous wife.


50 posted on 10/17/2019 5:00:14 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Jamestown1630

I’ve seen the Japanese socks.


51 posted on 10/17/2019 5:17:48 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Self-esteem has completely obliterated self-respect as a desideratum." ~Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: Tax-chick

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.


52 posted on 10/17/2019 5:47:22 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Jamestown1630

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.


53 posted on 10/17/2019 6:56:17 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Self-esteem has completely obliterated self-respect as a desideratum." ~Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: Tax-chick

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...)


54 posted on 10/17/2019 7:19:04 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Jamestown1630
words are never adequate to some experiences

That's certainly true, not even With the Old Breed.

55 posted on 10/18/2019 3:26:14 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Self-esteem has completely obliterated self-respect as a desideratum." ~Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: Tax-chick

That looks like a good book.


56 posted on 10/18/2019 9:30:05 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: NOBO2012

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?


57 posted on 10/18/2019 9:33:08 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("I've read the back of The Book, and we win.")
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To: Jamestown1630

It’s very intense. My daughter in the Marine Corps in Okinawa says they’ve visited some of the battle sites.


58 posted on 10/18/2019 1:50:38 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Self-esteem has completely obliterated self-respect as a desideratum." ~Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: Jamestown1630; Thank You Rush
Ad for Panti-Legs, which (beginning about 1959-1960) was the first commonly sold women's pantyhose.
59 posted on 10/19/2019 6:48:27 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: OttawaFreeper

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.

https://www.silkies.com/

Thanks...interesting.


60 posted on 10/19/2019 7:05:43 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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