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Batters started out publishing his photographs himself. In 1956, he founded and published Man's Favorite Pastime, which was the first leg-art magazine. [1] Since the early 1960s, his work was featured in magazines such as Sheer Delight, [1] Black Silk Stockings, [1] Leg-O-Rama, Nylon Doubletake, and Tip Top, to name but a few.
Pantyhose, sometimes also called sheer tights, are close-fitting legwear covering the wearer's body from the waist to the toes. Pantyhose first appeared on store shelves in 1959 for the advertisement of new design panties (Allen Gant's product, 'Panti-Legs') [1] as a convenient alternative to stockings and/or control panties which, in turn, replaced girdles.
A precursor of pantyhose made an appearance in the 1940s and 1950s, when film and theater productions had stockings sewn to the briefs of actresses and dancers, according to actress-singer-dancer Ann Miller [6] and seen in popular films such as Daddy Long Legs. Today, stockings are commonly made using knitted wool, silk, cotton or nylon (see ...
Fully fashioned knitting means that a garment is shaped by increasing and decreasing the number of stitches in a row. [4]Fully fashioned stockings are made from sections of nylon fabric that are knitted flat from the top down in the shape of a profile view of a leg.
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Ana De Armas Flashes Miles Of Sculpted Legs In A Super-Short Minidress At The 'Ghosted' Premiere. She credits Pilates for keeping her fit while she's on the road.
When nylon fibres were developed and introduced in the 1940s, these stockings were referred to as nylons. When the separate legs were woven together with a panty that covered the lower torso up to the waist in a single, integrated format, the term pantyhose was coined, since it was a one piece construction of a panty with a pair of separate ...
By 1970, the girdle was generally supplanted by the wearing of pantyhose (called tights in British English). Pantyhose replaced girdles for most women who had used the girdle as a means of holding up stockings; however, many girdle wearers continued to use a brief style panty-girdle under or on top of tights/pantyhose for some figure control.