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Before the 1920s, stockings, if worn, were worn for warmth. In the 1920s, as hemlines of dresses rose and central heating was not widespread, women began to wear flesh-colored stockings to cover their exposed legs. Those stockings were sheer, first made of silk or rayon (then known as "artificial silk") and after 1940 of nylon.
The industry feared that not wearing stockings would become a fad, and advised stores to increase hosiery advertising. [26] When nylon stockings reappeared in the shops there were "nylon riots" as customers fought over the first deliveries. [27]
Also in the 1920s, as hemlines of women's dresses rose, women began to wear stockings to cover the exposed legs. Women's bloomers also became much shorter. The shorter bloomers became looser and less supportive as the boyish flapper look came into fashion. By the end of the decade, they came to be known as "step-ins", very much like modern ...
"The change to stockings might have come because you can get more in them than shoes. When I was a kid, I had a pillowcase — even bigger!" Even the Bidens hung up their stockings with care ...
Some women wore stockings with a plain elastic garter or narrow material tied tightly, not suspenders, or by simply rolling the top of the stocking, because it seemed more practical or they could not afford classic corsetry, thus creating a kind of predecessor of the modern hold ups. This was particularly common among servants and housemaids ...
By 1970, the girdle was generally supplanted by the wearing of pantyhose (called tights in British English). Pantyhose replaced girdles for most women who had used the girdle as a means of holding up stockings; however, many girdle wearers continued to use a brief style panty-girdle under or on top of tights/pantyhose for some figure control.
Women would often wear other undergarments as well, including a corset, hoopskirt, and bustle. “There were a lot of layers happening,” says Christel. The rise of the pantalettes
Heather Radke, the author of Butts: A Backstory, explains our cultural obsession with women's rear ends. Turns out, it's all about racism, control, and desire.