A n art exhibition about tights? In Margate? It sounds very end-of-the-pier, all saucy postcards and mother-in-law jokes. There is something a bit icky about hosiery in the day-to-day. While Gossamer is a witty, knowing exhibition, it approaches hosiery with barely a smirk, for tights and stockings have actually been used by an astonishing range of artists, from Man Ray and Louise Bourgeois to Sarah Lucas and Senga Nengudi. Nylons do, after all, work brilliantly in sculpture — stretching, masking, distending and accommodating almost anything stuffed into them.
Is there a garment more simultaneously demure and salacious than a pair of tights? Presently at Gucci , legs are stained with strawberries, lacey pull-ups turned chroma-key green. Fendi plasters tights with its iconic logo, for all those who need announce a very expensive upper thigh. Marc Jacobs re-introduced two-tone tights, one leg periwinkle, the other ballet pink. At NYFW, rococo-absurdists Puppets and Puppets presented models wearing no skirts or pants, only tights hand-dyed with fermented vegetables, swirls of blue and bark, made in collaboration with Emily Dawn Long.
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When I think of pantyhose, I think of grandmothers wearing their church clothes, the misguided fashion sense present in most corporate office parks and how weird it is that you can buy packages of them at drugstores. Earlier this year, she launched Nylons4K , a pantyhose and lingerie-themed adult site. Her inspiration was a simple case of supply-and-demand. A lot of guys also ask me to wear the dark tan, shiny pantyhose worn by the waitresses at Hooters. Some guys just think pantyhose are sexy and want to see my ass in them.