What are the stocking clips called?
The bit that holds on to the stocking is technically called the garter, though we tend to call it a garter clip more often than not. Garter clips come in basically two types, loop-and-button or suspender. The loop-and-button garter is the classic type more traditionally associated with garter belts.
How do stockings stay up?
The terms hold-ups and thigh highs refer to stockings that stay up through the use of built-in elastic. They are designed to hold the stockings up without the use of a garter belt. Stockings are the general term or refer to the kind of stockings that need a suspender belt (known as a garter belt in American English).
How do you attach a stocking?
Attach the garter clasps to your thigh highs. To attach it, put the rubber nub underneath the top edge of the stocking. The clasp should reach straight down to the stocking, unless it’s sewn on at an angle. It should fall about an inch past the top of the stocking. Slide the metal clasp over the nub.
What’s the point of thigh highs?
Sometimes thigh highs are preferred to pantyhose for hygiene reasons, because they reduce excessive microbial growth around the groin due to humidity and warmth. Thigh highs may be chosen because of the classic popular “stocking top” line, and there are no suspender bumps to be seen through a skirt or dress.
Which is the most common way to hold up stockings?
A garter belt ( AmE ), or suspender belt or suspenders ( BrE ), is the most common way of holding up stockings. It is a piece of underwear worn around the waist like a belt but under clothing which has “suspenders” or “stays” that clip to the tops of the stockings. “Stay-ups” are the second most common means of support.
What do you call stockings with suspenders at the top?
Hold-ups or stay-ups (in the United States also referred to as thigh-high stockings or simply thigh highs) are stockings with an elasticized band at the top, designed to hold the stockings up when worn, without the use of a garter belt or garters (British English: suspenders).
What kind of belt is used to hold up stockings?
A garter belt ( AmE ), or suspender belt or suspenders ( BrE ), is the most common way of holding up stockings. It is a piece of underwear worn around the waist like a belt but under clothing which has “suspenders” or “stays” that clip to the tops of the stockings.
What kind of stockings are they still made of?
Genuine fully fashioned stockings are now very rare but much sought after. They’re still made by Gio, Cervin, Eleganti and Gerbe, with non-stretch 100% nylon yarns on the original machinery from the 1950s. See suspender belt. Foundation wear garment that gives shape to the waist and bottom while at the same time holding up stockings.