Opera Stockings (0 Comments)
My intention with this site has always been to show you the world of nylons – stockings and pantyhose, and also “educate” and keep you updated with this great fetish
Today I’m going to talk about Opera Stockings. We have all seen the beautiful fully-fashioned ‘opera’ stockings worn by dancers in the typical early 1950s movie musicals. This was before the days of stretch yarns and pantyhose so they must have been stockings.
Opera hose were the very, very long stockings worn by professional dancers before the advent of pantyhose. They had a very narrow welt and were held up with garter belts at the waist with very short garters or, probably most often, hand stitched to an elastic brief after being donned. Watch an early 1950s movie musical and you will see dancers wearing opera hose.
Today, opera length seems to have come to mean simply hose that are longer than typical. In no way do they approach the length of the original opera stockings.
Opera length stockings were pinned to the inside of the panty. In an interview with Ann Miller, (the raven-haired, long-legged actress and machine-gun tap dancer from the golden age of movie musicals)… she talked in length about how they had to pin their stockings to the inside of their panties to keep the tops from showing. They were also so sheer that when the ladies danced they stretched and runs were very frequent. They had to make many changes in their stockings during the shooting of the dance scenes.
Today’s stockings gallery:
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Luke
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