April 1960 ad, for further interest.
Posted on 10/17/2019 5:40:07 AM PDT by NOBO2012
“”Eleven years after retirement I still have 10 boxes of Leggs in my drawer. Why?””
Same here but mine are the “Silkies” as I just posted. I’ve been retired for 13 years and have no idea why I need so many...They do last a long time.
April 1960 ad, for further interest.
LOL! Just looking at those things ... I can’t breathe. I wonder how I got any work done at the office squished into those things for 9 hours a day.
Well, all I can say is I didn’t have the long legs this model had....still don’t!!
I don’t know who came up with the idea of pantyhose but he/she must have made a fortune and no doubt still making it!
I don’t think we were ever aware of them after we got them on. It was putting on and taking off that required a little skill - LOL. I have a bad back now and I doubt I could even get into them. I have trouble bending over to put on socks (which I wear when cold weather comes) or cut my own toenails..
I hear ya! About three years ago I started to go to a salon for pedicures — which I hate, but are necessary now. Too many aches and pains now.
I haven’t given in to it for myself YET as I can still manage my own after a fashion but I do have to take my husband to get his toenails cut - they are much too tough and deformed for me to do besides I can’t bend over to do his. I’ve tried doing them sitting in a chair while he’s in the recliner but I still can’t manage it. It’s very difficult getting him in and out of the car to take him anywhere except for medical appointments but the nails need to be cut and that’s the only way. I have a caregiver one morning a week to help so I can get to the store etc., but they are not allowed to cut toenails. He does enjoy the spoiling he gets from the Vietnamese ladies at the salon so it is a highlight of at least one day for him.
Well, I would have an argument with ‘for comfort all the time’; and I’ve never seen a ‘no-run’ pair.
But this thread inspired me to actually buy a pair of L’eggs today, to see if they’ve improved in either category.
And don’t get me started on strapless bras, which the lady in your ad seems to be wearing. Those things have required new engineering for decades. The long-line ones are the only ones that ever have worked for me.
(My husband saw me writing on this thread, and he said “the problem with women’s clothes today is that they leave nothing to the imagination - and imagination is the most fun part of looking at girls”...)
(My husband saw me writing on this thread, and he said “the problem with women’s clothes today is that they leave nothing to the imagination - and imagination is the most fun part of looking at girls”...)
Agreed with your husband. What also bothers me that good bit these days is this peculiar double standard seemingly very common. Ones like Lena Dunham can openly talk about or even expose their privates but Princess Kate was the target of snide comments and remarks from these same sorts of people for wearing pantyhose as much as she did when she first came to North America.
And you can imagine if Leggs or Hanes or Burlington were to bring back the women’s hosiery ads that were commonplace on TV back when I was growing up (1970s and ‘80s), you’d hear the same people up in arms about how sexist those ads are, etc. The ads that featured ones like Juliet Prowse (RIP), Barbara Eden, Joyce DeWitt, and others just simply featured attractive and confident women and nothing sexist or exploitative. Hoping I am not being odd or silly or strange with discussing these sorts of things.
1981 ad with Debby Boone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHBGzxuypIs
I don't need to understand it. I just need to appreciate it.
I agree with you entirely. (And ‘these sorts of things’ are part of what life is made of, and give evidence of where we stand and where we are going.
I’m a woman, and I’m sick to death of radical feminism and its juvenile, artificial, manufactured ‘angst’ over silly stuff like this. A lot of so-called ‘women’ these days need to grow the hell up :-)
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