FASHION: Getting a Leg Up

For that hot, sexy look, thigh-highs are the thing for runway models and grannies

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking, as Cole Porter noted. But now, God knows, anything goes. And now what's going is a new wrinkle in hose credited by some fashion experts to Ralph Lauren. In magazine ads, Lauren's young line, called Ralph, features a model straddling a chair. She wears a skirt about the length of a large handkerchief, and her stockings, such as they are, reach only to her thighs. Thus is born a fad. The stockings are called thigh-highs and a lot of women are making a run on them.

Thigh-highs are...

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