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- From: devin@colorado.edu (No one in particular)
- Subject: Re: Stockings and shopping revisited
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.184004.7743@colorado.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:40:04 GMT
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- Lisa (an6572@anon.penet.fi) wrote:
- : Seeing that I am 6'3", "big-boned" :-), and have a shoe size of 13 (15
- : womens', correct?), I have a hard time finding anything that fits me; however,
- : I can usually find things with a little effort. The one sore spot with me is
- : stockings and hosiery.
- : Catalogs don't seem to carry anything that would fit me (the largest
- : that JC Penney's carries in their catalog is 6X, and considering the abyssmal
- : experience I had with some 3X that I picked up once, thinking they'd be large
- : enough may be wholly incorrect. As I recall, they came somewhere to my
- : mid-thigh, and even if they had fit once I had them that far, they would have
- : surely run because they were so stretched). I called a place in town that is
- : a "hosiery discounters/distributers" that is across the street from one of my
- : favorite game stores, and they only carry up to 4X. I'm not out enough yet
- : to go into any of the large womens' shops (considering I have relatives who
- : shop in those stores, and who knows where they shop exactly all the time?).
-
- While I'm only 6' even, and I have small feet (9 to 9 1/2 womens), I have
- VERY long legs (approx. 35" inseam). So, I've had the same problem. The
- best ones I've found were Just My Size 1X's. Note that 3X's are not
- necessarily taller than 1X's. Read the size chart on the display or on
- the back of the package. Just My Size are the only pantyhose I can wear
- more than once (any others I've tried run very quickly).
-
- Just a suggestion.
-
- -Deb
-
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- Deborah Parks (RP90) (SotM 7/91) DoD #0034 deb@boulder.colorado.edu ------
- "It's being both that's a bitch." --\--- /
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