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Posted by Colleen Shirazi, Monday, March 20, 2006 7:40 PM (Eastern)
Okay...so I finally got out to J.C. Penney to see the stockings.
The short version is that they didn't have any. Only those stay-up thigh highs, which is not what I wanted. Conclusion: only Penney's online sells the stockings. The b & m stores are hit and miss.
I decided to try Sears. I should explain...I did not want to go to Victoria's Secret or Frederick's of Hollywood and pay for overpriced stockings. To me, stockings are not a novelty; they're a necessity. I really can't stand pantyhose, which is what everyone...even Longs Drugs...is selling, to the exclusion of regular, plain old, stockings. The only kind of pantyhose that I find healthy, is the kind with a 100% cotton panty built into them. Yes! Those make sense! But it is--it should be--cheaper to simply buy stockings.
I lucked out at Sears. Now this is the experience I wanted. As I say, paying $8 or $10 for a pair of stockings (which is what VS and Frederick's charge) is outlandish to me. It's like paying $10 to ride the bus. Hello?
Sears now, had that precious stockings section...and it should be a neglected-looking little almost dusty section...of a brand I'd never heard of ("Nice Touch," made in the U.S.A.). Size B! Yes! That's it. It should be size A, size B, size C, size D (there is now also size E).
These were $2.50 per pair which is what stockings should cost. Reinforced toe (yes!), but no reinforced heel (yes!). These looked very promising.
When I went to pay, the checker said two of the packages were free. Bonus! Nice Touch apparently was on sale (there was no sign on that neglected little shelf). I got whatever I could find in my size that had a color I could use, so I got nude and a couple of kinds of taupe...that's all they had or I would have gotten more colors.
I haven't tried them yet but I will soon. Let's just see if these are indeed the old school stockings that Woolworths used to sell.
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