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One of the guys on the high school football team told me they would wear pantyhose to practice on chilly mornings.

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The plastic eggs were great craft items themselves. We made Potatohead-Humpty Dumpty characters with them in grade school.

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I remember those creepy little dolls!!!

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I used to love the eggs L'Eggs came in! My mom would let me add them to my stash of other plastic treasures like the little platform-on-a-stick inside Pushups ice cream treats.

But boy, I never enjoyed wearing pantyhose. Maybe I'm just oddly shaped, but they always seems to sag at the crotch. I became a dissenter in the mid-1980s and I've rarely worn them since.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdniscIjx7E

At some point, I memorized this ad. Still hum it occasionally.

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"like silk from the Orient...". And I love that the "plus size" version didn't come in the egg either.

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We wouldn't want to encourage BMIs over, say, 20.

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Having a lifelong 'thing' about stockings I'm surprised to learn what 'fashioned' means. Every day's a school day on this blog

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If you want fancy hose, Wolford makes a few with the back seam.

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