It’s “sexy” like my greyhound lying on her back with all her legs in the air, looking like a dead chicken."
I might be in the minority, but IMO it's just inappropriate and tacky to not wear hose with a dress even if your legs are tanned and perfect. It used to be considered a terribly low-class thing to see a woman with bare legs and dress shoes...it just wasn't done. And please, please don't get me started on those ugly, nasty flip-flops. I hate them. They're fine for the beach, but that's all you see women wear in the summer now.
My skin is light olive, so I do go sans hose in the summer if I’m wearing a pair of heeled, toeless, backless shoes with a denim skirt or some such casual thing-but only for dinner at a local casual place with pool tables and a jukebox. Any place nicer is dress, hose, heels, etc. It is still considered trailer trashy here in the country to go bare legged with heels in a nicer restaurant-especially with Daisy Duke shorts (yes, some tourist women really wear that-it used to make MrT5 roll his eyes and laugh).
And 86 the flip-flops as anything but most casual attire-when I was a kid and my parents were stationed in Japan, those things were called “zorries” and they were what you put on when you took off your street shoes at the door of your house.
Pantyhose make a woman look classy and professional. I like wearing them myself.