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2. Compression stockings - Wikipedia

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   Knee-high stockings are more comfortable, easier to apply, and wearing them increases patients' compliance with treatment. [22] Knee-high stockings are easier to size for limb measurement than thigh-high compression stockings. [9] Thigh-high compression stockings may create a tourniquet effect and cause localized restriction when rolled down. [23]

3. Knee highs - Wikipedia

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   Knee highs became popular during the 1960s and 1970s, worn in regular knee high length or top of the knee length so they could be folded over at the top, with the increase in popularity of the mini dress and miniskirt. [citation needed] This style continued throughout the 1980s with above the knee and at the knee length dresses. And in the '80s ...

4. Sock - Wikipedia

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   Knee-high socks are sometimes associated with formal dress or as being part of a uniform, such as in sports (like football and baseball) or as part of a school's dress code or youth group's uniform. Over-the-knee socks or socks that extend higher (thigh-high socks) are sometimes referred to as female garments in the common era.

5. Compression garment - Wikipedia

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   Compression garments worn on the legs can help prevent deep vein thrombosis and reduce swelling, especially while traveling. Compression can also be used for post surgeries, to help with the healing process. Garment usage varies per patient but can be worn up to a year. There is also second stage compression garments, that are every day wear.

6. Hockey sock - Wikipedia

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   Hockey socks are ankle-to-thigh garments worn over protective gear by ice hockey players. They are form-fitting , and traditionally made of a cotton or synthetic rib-knit fabric. Experiments have been made with a lightweight fabric sock, of material similar to that used in hockey jerseys , and most recently (mid-2000s) with a streamlined ...

7. Athleisure - Wikipedia

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   Athleisure is a hybrid [1] style of athletic clothing typically worn as everyday wear. The word is a portmanteau combining the words 'athletic' and 'leisure'. Athleisure outfits can include tracksuits, sports jackets, hoodies, yoga pants, tights, sneakers, flats, Birkenstocks, uggs, leggings and shorts [2] that look like athletic wear or pair ...