enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Hold-ups - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold-ups

   A Woman wearing hold-up stockings A woman in Japan wearing white hold-ups, 2023. Hold-ups or stay-ups (in the United States also referred to as thigh-high stockings or simply thigh highs) [1] are stockings with an elasticized band at the top, designed to hold the stockings up when worn, without the use of a garter belt or garters.

3. Units of textile measurement - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Units_of_textile_measurement

   The denier is based on a natural reference: a single strand of silk is approximately one denier; a 9,000-metre strand of silk weighs about one gram. The term denier comes from the French denier, a coin of small value (worth 1 ⁄ 12 sou). Applied to yarn, a denier was held to be equal in weight to 1 ⁄ 24 ounce (1.2 g).

4. Stocking - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stocking

   Stockings can be held up in one of three ways: A garter belt , or suspender belt or suspenders , is the second most common way of holding up stockings. It is a piece of underwear worn around the waist like a belt but under clothing which has "suspenders" or "stays" that clip to the tops of the stockings. Frequently, women opted for girdles that ...

5. Why do we stuff stockings? Here's the answer, and little gift ...

   www.aol.com/why-stuff-stockings-heres-answer...

   Even the Bidens hung up their stockings with care, during Christmas 2022 In the old days, the stocking was the main event. There was no Christmas tree, no presents under it.

6. Pantyhose - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantyhose

   Pantyhose are available in a wide range of styles. The sheerness of the garment, expressed as a numerical "denier"/'dtex", ranges from 3 (extremely rare, very thin, barely visible) up to 20 (standard sheer), 30 (semi opaque) up to 250 (opaque). The term denier is often referred to the weight of the yarn that was used to produce the item of ...

7. Hosiery - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosiery

   The term is also used for all types of knitted fabric, and its thickness and weight is defined by denier or opacity. Lower denier measurements of 5 to 15 describe a hose which may be sheer in appearance, whereas styles of 40 and above are dense, with little to no light able to come through on 100 denier items.