Nothing but Seamed Stockings

[kamikat]

I don't usually wear stocking or pantyhose with modern dresses, just opaque tights. I was amazed at the range of colors in stockings. What color best duplicates the most common color of WWII era stockings? Thanks!

[ITG]

Where can I get these type of hose? I'm sure actual vintage ones are hard to come by. Anyone know where I can find new ones online?

[BellyTank]

Hi-
not that I wear them but try-

Magnolia Hoisery

this is what they sell- old style hosiery-
back seam, re-inforced toe and heel-
they real mccoy.
I got some for my wife from this place.

BellyTank.

[The Wolf]

I have an ad on the back of the late, lamented Atomic magazine for secretsinlace.com. They sell vintage-style seamed stockings. I just checked the site and it is still operating. I hope this helps.

[Dollface]

hiya! I have a few pairs of those stockings and i bought mine at DANCESTORE.COM

They are fairly inexpensive....

[GingerDoll]

I love the look of backseams, but can't stand the elephant-ankles that actual vintage stockings (which lack stretchiness) give me. I buy my modern back seam stockings online from Glamour Boutique. They specialize in products for transgender ladies, but they have excellent customer service and they carry modern stretch stockings in nude with a very nice sewn backseam at $4.95 a pair!

Oh, and one more thing.... avoid the stay-up, no garterbelt needed thigh-high stockings at all costs! This engineering nightmare inevitably results in an thigh bulge that no slip can fully conceal. Real stockings that fit well with a garterbelt properly positioned won't ever have this nasty effect.

Hope this helps!
Zoe

[GingerDoll]

Whoops! I forgot to include the URL:

http://www.glamourboutique.com/

[The Bingstress]

Hmmm, that's a good question, Kamikat. I could be wrong, but my guess would be a light nude--something pretty close to (caucasian) skin color with perhaps the slightest hint of tan.

I say this because tanning was not a fad in the 40s, and thus they probably wouldn't have made their stockings that fake looking tan color that modern hose manufacturers use. Likewise, I don't think they would go as light as off-white, because that's less sexy (and they were all about sexy back then).

I would actually suggest renting a few color movies from the '50s and '60s and seeing what the gals wore then. Stocking technology didn't really start changing until the 1980s with the invention of lycra spandex, and so stockings were pretty much made the same for several decades throughout the mid-20th century (either silk or nylon). I remember a scene in "Rosemary's Baby" when Mia Farrow is unhooking her stockings from her garter and rolling them down her legs. Those were the old fashioned kind, and that's probably close to the colors they used.

Hope that helps (and hope I'm not too far off the mark)!

Hugs & blessings,
The Bingstress

[TheKatzMeow]

I always buy the sable (fourth one down) from http://mybabyjo.com/under.htm

$9 each but they last and last!

[Lauren]

Sometimes Fredericks of Hollywood has them, but they are usually with cuban heel seams, which are tan with black seams and heel.


Here's the link

And the vintage stores that cater to the rockabilly type customers often have them. If you know any, you may want to give them a call.