Marika asked:
I’ve noticed in different parts of North America women use different words to describe the same thing. Of course, stockings are different from pantyhose, but what is the general catch all term you use and where are you from. Thanks for answering !!
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16 comments ↓
Hahaa i just say ‘hose’ and ‘tights’, not really nylons or stockings at all..
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I’m from england and call them tights.
Atleast I think we’re talking about the same thing.
I call them tights.
i say pantyhoes idk that is just wat i learned to say when growing up
I say tights and I’m from the South.
I call them pantyhose. That is if we are talking about the same thing.
LOL…..good question! When I am with my girlfriends we call them either nylons or hose and when I am talking to a guy it is almost always stockings or pantyhose!! I have also noticed women over 50 refer to them as nylons just about every time.
Thanks!
I usually say hose.
I usually just group them all under the word “nylons”. Seems to work for me since all of them pretty much have nylon in them and cover your legs one way or another.
I agree with Nicole and usually just use the term “nylons”. I suppose it’s mostly because you don’t always know what someone else is wearing, or maybe you don’t know yet what you want to buy…could be thigh highs, could be pantyhose, could be a body stocking!
My better half refers to them as either tights or nylons most of the time.
I say pantyhose or hose. Stockings for either thigh highs or garter type stockings. And tights for all others.
I’m from the northeast USA. I call them pantyhose. Partly because this is the “correct” term, partly because I find pantyhose sexy, and partly because I grew up during the transition from two-piece stockings to pantyhose, when differentiation was essential.
I consider “nylons” a cop-out. Too prissy and proper, and too vague as well; not descriptive enough. I also think that “pantyhose” is much a hipper term than “nylons”. While a lot of women use the word “nylons” to describe pantyhose, I heard a woman just yesterday say “…and pantyhose, not nylons…”, meaning pantyhose, not 2 piece stockings.
Hosiery is any kind leg covering garment, from sheer to thick, from jock to elegant lady, or from one piece to two pieces. Also not descriptive enough for me.
Stockings are sheer legs of hosiery in two pieces. Before pantyhose became dominant, stockings ruled the day. Stockings were/are held up by a garter belt or girdle with garter straps attached, or elastic at the top of each stocking, period, the end. I also find stockings very un-sexy, so it drives me crazy when someone says “stockings” when I know darn well that they are REALLY talking about pantyhose!
Overwhelmingly, most of the women I’ve come in contact with use the word “stockings” as a slang word for pantyhose. The second most popular word I’ve heard from women is “nylons”. Then comes pantyhose, then hose, which I’ve heard very rarely. Excluding women from Great Britain, I have only once heard a woman call sheer pantyhose “tights”, and she grew up in New England. Supposedly, tights is the most popular word in New England, pantyhose is the most popular word in the south, and stockings is most popular everywhere else.
If you were brought up with the term “pantyhose” or enter the USA from another country (speaking a language other than English), it can be confusing when a person says “stockings” when they really mean pantyhose.
The confusion between pantyhose and stockings began after the early 1970’s. Before pantyhose became dominant, a woman wanting to buy full length sheer hosiery for her legs between 1965 and 1975 HAD to specifiy either “pantyhose” or “stockings”. Both products were popular and widespread, both served a similar purpose (sheer, elegant leg coverings for grown women), and yet they were distinctly different. After stockings virtually disappeared from the mainstream hosiery scene, there was no need to differentiate between the two.
Sometime after the early 1970’s, some American women began to refer to “pantyhose” as “stockings”. Despite being techincally incorrect, other women with a similar mindset know that “stockings” mean “pantyhose”, because two piece stockings had vanished from the everyday life of most women. For many women, “stockings” simply equal/refer to “pantyhose”, and for these ladies, that is that. Many, many women who wear pantyhose, but have never, and will never, wear two piece stockings with a garter belt, continue to call pantyhose “stockings”.
I don’t like to call them nylons. That’s what old women call them. I call pantyhose “pantyhose” and group stockings and stay ups as “stockings”.
Actually there is only one exact word which matches “nylons”. These are stockings made 100% from pure nylon fibre. Nylon as a special synthetic polymer was founded on February 28, 1935 by Wallace Carothers. Later on, in 1940 ladies stockings started to produce from that material. Nowerdays nylons are very rare and expencive stockings. Few companies are still producing them – mainly in France and UK.
Usually people say nylons but they actually mean different type of stockings, tights, hoses etc. It’s true – more or less they contain nylon fibre in percentage of 80-90. But they are really not nylons. Unfortunately.
I usually refer to them as hose, or pantyhose!
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