This year's Pennsic Experiment

Hushgirl · Post by **Hushgirl** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 12:21 pm

...will be stockings. I have made a pair of wool stockings and tailored them nearly skin tight at the calf. If I can find those hand-woven worsted garters I made last year, I'll tie them below the knee. Let's see if they stay up under the mileage I put in at Pennsic.

Remember, I'm the gal who gave up wearing kneesocks because they wouldn't stay put.

This promises to be a cool and wet Pennsic.

James B. · Post by **James B.** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 12:43 pm

Good luck Hush!

My chausses work great but they tie to my braies and then get gartered unlike womenâ€™s hose, which I believe are just gartered correct? The kick ass thing about bias cut wool chausses is that they are skintight for me even at the ankle. I wear them when I fight too.

Flonzy

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Hushgirl · Post by **Hushgirl** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 1:45 pm

Part of the problem is that my family is that body type that can't bulk up muscle, they just get denser. What that means for this is that my calf mucles flex quite a bit and push my socks down. My leg will be constatly wiggling out of my stockings! I suspect a garter tight enough to stay on will interfere with my circulation. We'll see.

FrauHirsch · Post by **FrauHirsch** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 2:20 pm

Hush, my garters are placed just under the knee/over the top of the calf, and my stockings tend to be long enough to be above my knee. So with the part above my kneee, I make a roll down to the garter. This helps slow the creep.

Knee socks don't stay up all that well on me either.

Juliana