Lace and Strips in Jonathan Aston Angelina Tights

It finally feels like the heat here in NYC is breaking, could we possibly be getting into Fall?  Max has been wearing shorts and I haven't had the chance to really wear any of my new fall tights. Just hope it doesn't get too cold too quickly...

I love these! They are from the Jonathan Aston collection named Angelina. All the tights in this collection have been named for the Hollywood Stars. ie The Kiera Tight and the The Taylor Tight.

The Jonathan Aston Angelina Tights are micro-mesh, with a 20 denier and have a beautiful lace applique look.

A few months ago I bought this lace top at BeBe, I don't shop at BeBe much not really my style. But this particular top felt like a must for my wardrobe. I love the look of it so much that I bought it in off white too!

Then as it sat in my closet, becoming a closet orphan. Then one morning I had an epiphany about how to wear it. Don't just go bold go edgy.

Les Puces de Paris

In Paris there is no shortage of great shopping. I do not limit myself to only buying hosiery but unique items that one can’t find even in NYC.

Les Puces de Paris, a fantastic Market on the outskirts of the city, has some of the most interesting shopping in Paris. You can find everything from Art Deco Lamps, Vintage Ricard water jugs, vintage hosiery and estate Jewelry. My favorite purchase is by far my leather trench coat. It makes me feel like an undercover super-hero Indiana Jones meets Wonder Woman. However  I think my super hero name would be Stocking Girl, but that might just be too cliché.

I am always on the quest to add to my vintage hosiery collection. As you could imagine, vintage hosiery is hard to come by. Since the nylon used in  hosiery is delicate and disintegrate over time.

The Nylon that is used in modern hosiery was developed during WW 2 when there were storage of silk. The silk was being used for other more important things, like parachutes for the soldiers, which they also replaced with NYLON. The word Nylon is said to come from the combining the names of the founding cities NY for New York and LON for London. Debatable- Some say it came from the scientist combining the words for Rayon and Cotton...

Silk was very limited in the way that it could be used for hosiery. Basics that are still made today are seamed and unseamed fully fashioned stockings. The use of NYLON in weaving techniques have allowed for more intricate designs and lower prices.

My hold-ups today are from Calzedonia a beautiful diamond pattern.

Printed Black Lace Tights and a little bit about my Grandmothers...

This weekend we celebrated my Grandparents 60th Wedding Anniversary! Can you imagine being married for 60 years, I will be married for 5 this year and it feels like forever! To change up the topic for tonights post, I would like to talk about my grandmothers.

My grandmothers like everyone their age lived through the Great Depression, World War 2 and also the years of great hosiery wearing. My paternal grandmother (Memom) Jena Rose was a Rockette and my maternal grandmother (Mommom) Genevieve graduated from Pratt in 1949 and was a cook for a television cooking show for Brooklyn Union Gas.

My grandmothers both taught me a lot about hosiery. Mommom taught me always to make sure your seams are straight and how during the war how they would use tea bags to stain their legs and draw a seem up the back with black paint. They both gave me a substantial part of the what is my amazing collection of vintage hosiery and slips. Memom gave me a pair of vintage YSL stockings that I will never be able to wear she is much taller them me and about 10 vintage slips from the 1940's. I always feel incredibly lucky to have had them in my life and for this long.

Today's outfit was simple for special occasion, but the tights are sure fun! They are a gray tight with an all over black lace pattern. These are the sort of tights that have the design printed on them, they are not knitted. I recently bought these at Anthropologie for $4.95. I was going to buy them when they were full price, but then they fell off my radar. I found them in the sale section and was was even willing to pay more for them so the actually price was a nice surprise.

Starting this week I am going do a Bill Cunnigham/Sartorialist type thing and feature someone at random that is rocking some great Hosiery!

My favorite neighborhood Blog!

Pardon me for asking....Brooklyn

I really enjoy this Blog for fun tidbits about my Neighborhood!

The chocolate room in Brookyn

Today's purchase on this another snowy day in Brooklyn was the decadent dark hot chocolate from the Chocolate Room!