Time to save our stockings

[MrScorpio]

By MARTIN PHILLLIPS
Senior Feature Writer
July 20, 2007

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TRAGIC news, lads — the stockings market has gone bottoms up.

Sales of the sexy legwear have dropped from five million pairs in 2002 to just three million last year.

Yet passion-stifling footless tights and knee-highs are leaping off the shelves.

It’s a desperate situation so today we launch an SOS — Save Our Stockings!

So come on, you leggy lovelies, it’s time to suspend common sense and give us more garters.

You owe it to mankind.

Elizabeth I (Gawd bless ’er) popularised silk stockings — enlightened women in her time did not use underwear, but wore stockings held up just above the knee by a garter.

But it was rising hems 100 years ago that saw their popularity rise and stockings have been a byword for sexy sophistication ever since.

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