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Stockings (also known as hose, especially in a historical context) are close-fitting, variously elastic garments covering the leg from the foot up to the knee or possibly part or all of the thigh. Stockings vary in color, design, and transparency. Today, stockings are primarily worn for fashion and aesthetics, usually in association with mid-length or short skirts.
Stockings are close-fitting garments that cover the leg from the foot up to the knee or higher, and they come in many different colors, designs, and levels of transparency. Today, people wear stockings mainly for fashion reasons, typically pairing them with shorter or mid-length skirts.
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- Clothing type.name
- Stocking
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- File:Nylon stockings.jpg
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- Clothing type.caption
- A pair of nylon stockings
- Clothing type.material
- Chiefly nylon, silk, wool, cotton, rayon
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- Pair of Woman's Stockings LACMA M.2007.211.134a-b (2 of 4).jpg
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Stockings (also known as hose, especially in a historical context) are close-fitting, variously elastic garments covering the leg from the foot up to the knee or possibly part or all of the thigh. Stockings vary in color, design, and transparency. Today, stockings are primarily worn for fashion and aesthetics, usually in association with mid-length or short skirts.
==History== thumb|alt=A woman stretching a sheer stocking with her hands to inspect it|Examining the quality of nylon stockings, Malmö clothing factory, Sweden, 1954 thumb|alt=A display showing various stockings suspended on legs|Stockings on display for sale in South Korea Historically, even though the word sock is at least as ancient in origin, what men normally wore in the medieval period were referred to as hose.