Stocking Memories, 1958 to 1960

When I started high school around 1958, we wore stockings for dress-up occasions. Usually, those stockings had a seam up the back. (Pantyhose became available in 1959, or so the internet tells me. Seamless nylon or rayon stockings were available -- briefly -- in the 1940s, but in 1958, seams were the norm for me…

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Stocking Memories, 1958 to 1960