FizzyLizzy

As part of my bi-yearly blogging regimen, today I am blogging about nylons. Some of you may know them as pantyhose. Today at the Mall of America I overheard one woman telling another (and I'm thinking they were probably mother and daughter) that nylons "dress up an outfit and complete the look." I just had to glance over and see how old this woman was. When I saw that she was most certainly under 50 I wondered to myself, "What cave has she been living in?" Hasn't it been over a decade since sheer nude hose have been considered fashionable legwear? (Now I do realize that some conservative offices require legs of employees to be covered. But that's a uniform, not fashion.) The young woman seemed moderately incredulous, but I really expected her to say something like, "Are you kidding, Mom?!" In fact, she seemed to be buying into the idea. For a moment I wondered if I was the one who was out of touch but then remembered a conversation I had a couple of weeks ago. It was the day before Katherine's birthday and I was talking to Marla about rites-of-passage into teen-hood. She said when she turned 13 she was allowed to wear pantyhose. One of the girls with us had absolutely no idea what Marla was talking about. Katherine wasn't even rock solid but said she thought they were like tights. If 12-year-olds don't even know what they are, they are old-fashioned. In other words, out of fashion.