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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Wearing pantyhose with shorts? - Yes!

Happen to come across another blog which post about whether women should wear shorts with pantyhose ... Well, women always have the alternative choice of wearing skirts, dresses to shorts. However, the same is not true for men. For men, the only choices are obvious and that's pants - long pants or shorts (including 3/4 pants, bermudas).

Wearing legwear with shorts is actually shows how confident the man is in himself. At this point of this new trend, the majority of men are only wearing legwear under long pants. Only a small group of men, at this point in time, are wearing hosiery with shorts. However, this is quickly changing as more and more men are wearing hosiery/legwear openly, irregardless of what others may think.

Personally, I have been wearing pantyhose (sheer and opaque) under long pants. The primary reason I started wearing was that I was experiencing leg aches from long hours of sitting down at the office desk. I have found that wearing support pantyhose actually helps to alleviate the leg aches and fatigue.
Men do not lose their masculinity by wearing pantyhose. Pantyhose comes in many colours and patterns. While pantyhose is just a piece of legwear, it is how we (men) match the pantyhose colours to our clothes that will express our masculinity. As far as I am concerned, sticking to skin colour pantyhose with shorts/bermudas, black opaque under long pants are all very basic ways to not give others the false impression.
For other men, who are apprehensive about wearing your pantyhose openly, you should build up your confidence slowly. Start by wearing under your long pants, then slowing include shorts/bermudas into the fashion equation. Wear pantyhose in skin tone colours that matches your skin colour. That would be less obvious and it does helps in building up confidence. ONce you are more confident, you can start wearing pantyhose in other basic colours like brown, black., grey.
While a lot can be said of men wearing pantyhose, I would end this post here and hope that legwear (leggings, pantyhose, tights) will one day be accepted as unisex legwear and not just women's legwear.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

VERY good article!
Thank you.

Unknown said...

smoothbill...
I've been wearing pantyhose for over a year now thanks to my girlfriends suggestion that I try them for warmth in the winter. Not only do they keep my legs warm, my legs feel great at the end of the day. I started with Comfilon but they got to be pricey so I experimented with various other brands. I finally found pantyhose thta I love. They are the JCPenney brand. 5th street, sheer caress. They fit great and look even better. More guys should try wearing pantyhose. They won't be sorry that they did.

Kevin said...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38524175@N06/
Here is a link to my page on flikr of me wearing hose and shorts. There is no problem with wearing and I do not understand all the hesitation.

Martin said...

Men can wear tigths under shorts also can wear skirt if want to cos it same between shorts and skirts (Shorts are two-legs and skirts is all in one) - I usual wear black tights and blue stonewash denim mini skirt that really nice with airflow. It help my health a lots and rebuild my body from weak so wear it as it your body :)