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Although other semi-synthetic fabrics existed — such as rayon — none as yet could offer sinuous proximity to silk — the stocking fabric of choice — whilst simultaneously offering better elasticity and durability.

Disembodied stockings possess other, stranger qualities — suddenly flimsy, almost alien.

"I don't think women truly appreciate their beauty and sexiness until they are older.

But now I know that sex is actually fun and that you shouldn't worry about all the minutiae of what you look like.

I was always taught that you could be a lady and 'sexy' with your clothes on.

I am approaching my 50s as a new journey in my life in which the four most important things to me now are to 'live, love, dance and have faith' into the next decade! It has been an adjustment to be OK with the fact that my body may never be the same as it used to be.

After all, mums do know best; however, when an overzealous member engages in a clandestine affair with an off-limits mother, lifelong friendships will be put to the test.

Elsewhere, repeatedly returns to stockings in his fashion work and portraiture.

In a shoot from 1991 inspired by Egon Schiele the model wears stockings in a series of reds, whites, and blacks an appropriate homage to a painter whose near-nude figures were often clad in jewel-bright stockings , directing her gaze towards the camera at times, seemingly caught in introspective moments of getting dressed elsewhere.

Full-body or tightly focused, intimate or hyper-erotic, elegant or practical, these images fleetingly capture just some of the ways that stockings have been seamed through the recent history of dress and photography: ever evolving in meaning; offering possibilities both charged and mundane; sometimes surreal or sexy or subversive, and sometimes just the perfect bedding material for a slumbering child exhausted by the busy market around them.