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What do you call them?

Pantyhose, nylons, hosiery, or silk stockings?

I call them pantyhose, although I don't know if I like the sound of that, it sounds like the word panty which I think sounds gross, it kind of sounds like you are going to say panty liners or something. Nylons I am sort of neutral about although I think thats what my Nana might call them. Which I don't like talking like an older lady. Hosiery sounds like one of those proper terms that only geeks use, kind of like the word menstration people always say period. sAnd Silk Stockings is the name of a girly strip club or something like that where we live. Maybe you call yours "pantyhose" or something different. What is it?
To me tights are something completely different, they are the thicker ones you wear in the winter that are not sheer.

I call them pantyhose. Partly because this is the "correct" term, partly because I find pantyhose sexy, and partly because I grew up during the transition from two-piece stockings to pantyhose, when differentiation was essential.

I consider "nylons" a cop-out. Too prissy and proper, and too vague as well; not descriptive enough. I also think that "pantyhose" is much a hipper term than "nylons".

Hosiery, as a another poster pointed out, is any kind leg covering garment, from sheer to thick, from jock to elegant lady, or from one piece to two pieces. Also not descriptive enough for me.

Stockings are sheer legs of hosiery in two pieces. Before pantyhose became dominant, stockings ruled the day. Stockings were/are held up by a garter belt or girdle with garter straps attached, or elastic at the top of each stocking, period, the end. I also find stockings very un-sexy, so it drives me crazy when someone says "stockings" when I know darn well that they are REALLY talking about pantyhose!

If you are more comfortable with the word pantyhose, stick with it. No one will ever mistake your meaning, since pantyhose is the correct term for the garment. Nevermind the "panty" part of it. It is a completely different garment. If you went out in public without wearing pantyhose, no biggie. If you went out in public without wearing a pair of panties, well, yikes, that's just a whole different ball game.

The confusion between pantyhose and stockings began after the early 1970's. Before pantyhose became dominant, a woman wanting to buy full length sheer hosiery for her legs between 1965 and 1975 HAD to specifiy either "pantyhose" or "stockings". Both products were popular and widespread, both served a similar purpose (sheer, elegant leg coverings for grown women), and yet they were distinctly different. After stockings virtually disappeared from the mainstream hosiery scene, there was no need to differentiate between the two.

Sometime after the early 1970's, some American women began to refer to "pantyhose" as "stockings". Despite being techincally incorrect, other women with a similar mindset know that "stockings" mean "pantyhose", because two piece stockings had vanished from the everyday life of most women. For many women, "stockings" simply equal/refer to "pantyhose", and for these ladies, that is that. Many, many women who wear pantyhose, but have never, and will never, wear two piece stockings with a garter belt, continue to call pantyhose "stockings".

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