Well, here’s a useless factoid. Did you know that pantyhose can die without ever having been worn? I felt like wearing a skirt today to my sewing class. It wouldn’t have looked good to wear long socks, so I rifled around in my stocking drawer and pulled out a pair of cocoa brown Vanity Fair pantyhose in the original packaging, unopened. My first hint should have been the cellophane tape that cracked rather than peeled off the plastic flap. I unfolded them from the cardboard sleeve and did my usual stretch of the waistband, then slipped them first onto my right foot then my left, and rolled them up slowly. They were a bit loose and didn’t have the usual shine, but I settled…

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