| (Female) students & stockings |
Fri, 23 November 2007 16:13  |
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At my university in SE England, the majority of students are (middle-class) females. However, except for rare RAG events or such like, only very few wear hosiery and virtually none of them seems to be wearing stockings or hold-ups.
I wonder if there are people in this forum who can confirm sightings at universities, particulary during graduation ceremonies. Or are you aware of lectureres/professors who wear?
Any related message would be welcome!
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Fri, 23 November 2007 17:01   |
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Cambridge in the 1980s was Stocking Heaven.
My own girlfriend at the time used to turn heads: she swore blind that drivers used to turn around to get a second view of her cycling along King's Parade or Trumpington Street!
I still return there several times a year, and still see hosiery of various forms for formal events, such as formal dinners and balls. I was there this last week-end, and (although an acquired taste not shared by many, I suspect), saw countless short-skirted students with opaques of various kinds. Admittedly, most probably not stockings (but one lives in hope!) but still better than trousers or bare.
By contrast, today, I was in Salisbury, and was appalled at what passed for formal dress at the graduation ceremony taking place in the Cathedral. Everything from open neck shirts for the men, to leggings and virtually ubiquitous trousers for the women! It really does trouble me that a whole generation seems to be totally ignorant of what pleasure can be had from "dressing up". If one can't make an effort on one's graduation day, then when else will one?!
Cambridge still has very strict rules on sub fusc clothing to be worn when graduating, which includes stiff collars, bow-ties and bands, and black dress/skirt (trousers, I think are now allowed) with black hosiery - certainly not bare. Oxford has similar rules which apply when even sitting exams! So, at least our anicent universities are trying to maintain some standards against a flood-tide of informality.
I have certainly seen one Oxford don wearing black fully-fashioned stockings at graduation in the Sheldonian. In my graduation year at Cambridge, several of my college contemporaries were wearing seams.
M.M.
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Fri, 23 November 2007 17:24   |
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Toeringaddict,
I suggest that you transfer to Oxbridge for a better chance of a sighting. My limited experience of modern students was gained when my offspring attended university and it was difficult at times to distinguish between the sexes let alone whether any wore hosiery under their jeans. If you intend staying put then the lecturers may be a better bet. However, the image of an archetypal professor sporting FFNs under his tweeds makes the mind boggle.
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Fri, 23 November 2007 17:40   |
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sands,
In view of your comment, I ought to clarify that the Oxford don was a female!
Also, I ought to correct my spelling of "ancient universities"!!
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Mon, 26 November 2007 14:18   |
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Well, that is at least one student with attitude.... Are there no more around in the UK?????
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Mon, 26 November 2007 18:52   |
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The last stockings I saw at a graduation were mine, but it was at my fiance's graduation this summer. Although a lot of the female students were wearing skirts and some form of hosiery I can't say if it was stockings, hold ups or tights. I was just glad to see so many female students not trying to blend in with the boys. At my sister's two years ago barely anyone wore skirts at all!
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Tue, 27 November 2007 18:10   |
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And another!
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Fri, 30 November 2007 02:28   |
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I went to a women's college in the US, and there was a real variety in dress. There were a lot of older working women trying to get their degrees, and they always dressed well. I went through a year where I would only wear skirts with either stockings or long thick socks. I didn't have a lot of money at the time so I couldn't afford to keep up the stockings habit.
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Fri, 07 December 2007 14:51   |
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Well, that seems to be all then really, at least it confirms my impression so far that today's students still have a long way to go before realising the full potential of stockings....
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Fri, 07 December 2007 19:15   |
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There is some hope for the future, My friend is DJ/ licensee at a pub and night club and its not unusual to see the younger generation in either holdups or stockings. The pub and club are both Rock based so it might be its the Rockers that have the love for Stockings since we seems some times to be the last bastion of Stocking wearing as the more fashionable types stay with the dreaded Ts.
So if your passing Wolverhampton of a weekend, drop by the Giffard Arms or The Planet and I can guarantee at least some students in stockings.
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Fri, 07 December 2007 20:47   |
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| jojo_jinx wrote on Sun, 25 November 2007 22:10 | I'm aware of a student who wears stockings and hold-ups; me!
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And me! We are around, but uni life isn't very conducive to stocking wearing - at least not every day. I don't think the weather or price helps much either.
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Sat, 08 December 2007 00:03   |
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I'm a female student and wear stockings!
However very rarely at university.
Simply because I'm an art student and they aren't practical, so instead I wear old scruffy jeans which I don't mind getting covered in paint, ink and clay.
The few classes and lectures I can wear skirts and stockings to (such as art history) require climbing 10 flights of stairs to get to, and once more flat comfy shoes and trousers are far more suitable. Especially as I have about a mile to walk in the wet and muddy to and from train stations. Heels are far too uncomfortable for that distance and somewhat dangerous.
But don't despair there are young women in the universities of this country who wear good old stockings and suspenders (when appropriate).
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Sat, 08 December 2007 13:49   |
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we met at Uni in the mid 90s and stockings were rare day to day on campus, except for theme parties like 'tarts and tramps' etc but the formal dinners and balls were a complete stocking fest, I remember one dinner on a table for 6 couples every single girl was wearing stockings and proved it!
Not only were students aware of the fun, glamour and sexiness of stockings they were liberated enough to enjoy it in public and what with the, er, how should I say, easy come easy go sex lives of students we all knew who was into them and who to, er, make friends with if you liked, that. Odd that that kind of behaviour in normal middle class life is called swinging, but at uni its just called a drunken social life! In one society we were members at the annual dinner one or two girls would always take on the challenge of snogging every man at the event, oh those were the days!
Anyway, me and mrs sheffcouple got on famously due to stockings fun at such events and we still enjoy the chance to get to a blakc tie do....just not often enough. I hope the students are still behaving like this!
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Sat, 08 December 2007 14:28   |
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| sheffcouple wrote on Sat, 08 December 2007 13:49 | .......... I hope the students are still behaving like this!
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I can't help wondering if you'll feel the same way when your little boy and/or girl is getting ready for uni.
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Sat, 08 December 2007 14:34   |
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absolutely, safe sex, don't wrong anyone (as we say in sheff), don't get in a pickle and I don't want to know the details, but why shouldn't they enjoy coming of age the way many british graduates did?
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Sat, 08 December 2007 14:48   |
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| sheffcouple wrote on Sat, 08 December 2007 13:49 | Odd that that kind of behaviour in normal middle class life is called swinging, but at uni its just called a drunken social life!
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What's it called in ' normal working class ' life then ?
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Sat, 08 December 2007 14:51   |
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having a good time, I think- far less pretentious.
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Sat, 08 December 2007 16:33   |
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Its interesting that some young people wait until they go to university to have sex.
I suppose its that notion about not wanting to be under the same roof as your parents when you're trying to have a sex life.
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Sat, 08 December 2007 17:07   |
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yes I think that's it, and away from the old peer group-a chance to find one's self where where no one has preconceived ideas of you, if you want to dress a certain way and behave a certain way no one will think anything of you when they haven't got memories of the way you were.
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Sat, 08 December 2007 17:15   |
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University is always a great place to find yourself and explore new ways of living your life.
I know that going really made a huge difference to me and how I related to other people. It is where you really get the chance to develop.
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Sat, 08 December 2007 23:47   |
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I don't think young people wait till uni to have sex, far from it, they just increase their sexual activity when they move to uni because there's more opportunity. Most people start a lot earlier than uni.
Though I'm not one of them, casual sex aint my bag.
[Updated on: Sat, 08 December 2007 23:48]
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Sun, 09 December 2007 05:27   |
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I went to a women's college in the US, and I didn't see many stocking wearers. I now go to a graduate school in the US, and I do not see any stockings wearers. I unfortunately cannot wear stockings to class as I ride my bike to get there, and it's now very cold in winter!! My stockings have now just been restricted to night life I was hoping that I might see some stockings, since it's a school for librarianship (ah, yes, stocking-wearing librarians... Oh my!)I might see more, but alas, I've seen none!
Have no fear, when I finally my master's and a librarian job, then it will be stockings every day!
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Sun, 09 December 2007 06:44   |
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I'm an undergraduate student at university and none of the girls I've seen yet even wear tights, yet alone stockings. It seems odd to see that afer last year in the sixth form I was party to the pleasure of a guaranteed sighting every day due to a huge popularity of hold-ups. I think it's a bit of a shame, as there are some gorgeous girls but if they're trying to be sexy they all just go for the slutty look rather than trying to dress up a bit more classy.
(Yes, I'm a young one, and I've been looking at the stockings HQ site since quite a few years before it was possibly legal to click on some links posted hehehehe but you don't need to be older to have fun, do you? )
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Sun, 09 December 2007 17:58   |
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I'm at Uni now and frequently wear stockings there, usually black opaques with a denim skirt - though tights if my skirt is a bit too short.
I'd agree with Tom, hold-ups were very popular in 6th form!
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Sun, 09 December 2007 19:08   |
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are we talking sixth forms with uniforms? most sixthformers in our town try to out-do the students for scruffyness, but where sixthforms have high standards of dress I can see the holdups being a way of expressing individuality.
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Sun, 09 December 2007 23:42   |
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I've just come back from a residential course, with a number of law students. I rather suspected that, for the dress-up dinner on Saturday, where cocktail dresses were de rigeur, and a variety of sheer hosiery was on magnificent display, that some of them would have been stockings.
This was confirmed in at least one case, since a discarded Boots lace-top stockings package was lying discarded in one of the rooms used. Covered in writing, she had been using the card packaging as a crib sheet!
M.M.
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Mon, 10 December 2007 13:35   |
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Many thanks for the many contributions and in particular MM's fascinating observation about the discarded stockings package. What an interesting piece of rubbish....
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Tue, 25 December 2007 07:59   |
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I never went to any college etc but when at school wore fully fashioned nylons in my last year, mind you it was 1959/60
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Tue, 01 January 2008 18:49   |
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Thanks for your contributions but the discussion about casual sex somewhat strayed from the original topic of students and stockings. More contributions on this exciting theme would be much appreciated!
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Fri, 04 January 2008 21:05   |
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I used to manage student houses in Preston for my parents, they had a female only policy as the houses took less of a battering. So there was I early 20s and making weekly housecalls to 15 or 20 late teen girls, I was always gobsmacked by how many stocking were drying on radiators, or empty packets in the bins. Loads of them were very regular wearers. This was mid 90's and lives with me to this day!
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Sat, 05 January 2008 18:59   |
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On my visits to Manchester recently I've seen quite a few students wearing stockings/hold ups.
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Sun, 06 January 2008 08:49   |
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When I was a student in edinburgh, I wore regularily, but I was in the minority
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Sun, 03 February 2008 12:58   |
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Well, I think there are no more contributions coming forward, thank you very much, I just wonder if there are any teachers or lecturers around here who wear during teaching/lecturing......
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Mon, 11 February 2008 13:56   |
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I work for a certainly University in the North West area of the UK so I get to see quite a lot of female students. Sadly, there seem to be very few in sheer hosiery. I see quite a few in wild coloured opaques (which are okay) but very few girls in any kind of sheer hosiery, be it tights, suspender stockings or hold-ups.
Same goes for the staff too, hardly any at all! Perhaps that's why mine get lots of really appreciated attention! Slurp! Eeek!
Not that I play on that fact or anything... Tumbleweed...
Kate C
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| Re: (Female) students & stockings |
Thu, 14 February 2008 16:38  |
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| toeringaddict wrote on Sun, 03 February 2008 12:58 | Well, I think there are no more contributions coming forward, thank you very much, I just wonder if there are any teachers or lecturers around here who wear during teaching/lecturing......
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Well, quite surprisingly, only today in fact, I saw a female lecturer wearing a lovely fitted black skirt, hosiery and 2" heels. I was very impressed with her overall look and felt quite an attraction! I dare say the attraction wasn't mutual but you never know! Dream time over Kate!
Kate C
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