Stockings ... a fetish?

Don't think I have blogged for yonks, mainly due to my computer packing up on me, thankfully rectified, a laptop will make life a whole lot easier (hopefully).
Funny though I was a computer addict and got withdrawal symptoms at first not being able to read the forums or chat occasionally online to a few peeps but after a week it seemed ok and the habit you get into with the computer disappeared although I missed reading my friends posts and comments, the time I would have spent online I put to good use doing some mundane much needed jobs like tidying up cupboards and sorting through my growing collection of underwear (not so mundane!)
I have been buying more and more stockings and my stocking snob attitude is accelerating. Usually I buy my stockings online along with the basques I enjoy wearing that have the proper metal clasps on the suspenders. Trying to buy proper nylons with point heels and a seam is like trying to find Lord Lucan if you go to department stores and indeed a lot of boutiques too.
I went in Fenwicks and asked for proper nylons with all the above criteria and the girl didn't know what I meant, she looked at me blankly when I refused the stockings that had lycra in them. I want them to be able to wrinkle I told her, to be the shape of my leg I said. She asked me if it was a fetish that I had.
Maybe it is but it seems extraordinary to me that traditional stockings and underwear should be categorised into a fetish compartment, afterall it was the norm to wear such things until fairly recently. Trying Ann Summers was even worse they hadn't a clue what I meant I was starting to think I would have to resort to browning my legs with Bisto and drawing a seam in black eye kohl up the backs of my legs but I don't think it would be quite the same thing for me and my gents unless of course anyone fancies a wartime rationing roleplay appointment ... but if you are an American G.I you could always sneak me a few pairs of nylons?!
Problem solved in the form of Agent Provocateur, Camden (yes really, hidden behind all the Goth stuff lovely FFS, and not a clue to how much they should be priced at!) and going back online again and ordering a load from Stocking HQ.
Thankfully well stocked again in time to enjoy an evening with a gent at an annual ball for stocking lovers. What a thrill it was to look at all the ladies in their splendour,different coloured stockings peeping seductively from under their dresses and to feel the sensation of the proper nylons on my own legs too.
All I can say is thank goodness for the internet especially for people who live in a rural location and are wanting to buy "proper" stockings otherwise I think we will soon be resorting back to the old wartime technique.
Wake up you underwear buyers in good quality department stores, you are missing a niche in the market!
Jx

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