The story of pantyhose runs in the Gant family. Since the late Allen Gant Sr. Three generations of women have now experienced waist-to-toe stockings, and few would be surprised to discover that a man invented pantyhose. According to Allen Gant Jr.
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When Q style editor Wendy Donahue received the following e-mail a few weeks ago, Melanie Griffith's triumph as Tess in "Working Girl" flashed before her eyes. But, a full 20 years past that heyday for hosiery, we wondered how stylists around Chicago would advise this extraordinary young woman. A year-old pantyhose advocate? Who knew?!
Talk about disagreeing. For that generation, wearing pantyhose was the difference between grown woman and little girl. Sometimes, I wear pantyhose under pants. GenXers have a different take. For them, the polishing is in the visible extras.
It all started, as best I can tell, when the Wall Street Journal did a story recently on the pantyhose generation gap. Even on conservative Wall Street, the newspaper reported, women were going bare-legged. We're the Midwest.