Hosiery, stockings and socks are important for keeping your feet healthy. These are popular and are worn by so many people including school-going children and people who go for work. Not only do hosiery, stockings and socks absorb moisture, but they also help prevent rubbing of shoes on the barefoot. Hosiery, stockings and socks can also provide cushioning to pad the feet and help keep them warm, especially during the cold season. Browse through this category for a variety of hosiery, stockings and socks available in Zambian stores.
Socks are much shorter, with most hitting the middle of a person's calf or lower. Socks come in many styles as well, such as the ankle, crew, or no-show socks. Stockings, in contrast, are cut much higher. Stockings typically reach the middle or upper area of the thigh.
Hosiery, knit or woven coverings for the feet and legs designed to be worn inside shoes, particularly women's stockings and tights; also socks for men, women, and children. In Great Britain, hosiery includes all types of machine-knit garments.
In America, the word “pantyhose” refers to sheer garments that are worn as hosiery. Pantyhose are a successor and replacement of stockings. Tights, in the American perspective, refer to a similar garment with denser, opaque, and thicker material.
Stockings (also known as hose, especially in a historical context) are close-fitting, variously elastic garments covering the leg from the foot up to the knee or possibly part or all of the thigh.
Wearing stockings helps with: Aching and heavy feeling in legs. Swelling in legs. Preventing blood clots, primarily after surgery or injury when you are less active.
Sheer stockings look best in black or very see-through nude. You can wear nude stockings if you want to create a clean look. Nude stockings are a great pick for formal wear under pencil skirts and shift dresses. While black stockings would look better with winter outfits.
The term ''hosiery" generally denotes all types of knitted wear, fabrics and goods manufactured therefrom. Broadly, it indicates various kinds of knitwear and garments like gengis, vests, drawers, pullovers, slipovers, jerseys and sportswear.
Tights are by far the most broad category when it comes to hosiery, spanning thick winter wool blends to sheer summer nude tights and all the printed and patterned tights in between.
Tights are generally thicker than pantyhose, with a denier of 40 to 100; they can range from almost-see-through to totally opaque. Unlike pantyhose, they can come in a range of fabrics, patterns, and styles, though they are usually footed and worn under some item of skirt- or dress-type clothing.
Tights are generally thicker than pantyhose, with a denier of 40 to 100; they can range from almost-see-through to totally opaque. Unlike pantyhose, they can come in a range of fabrics, patterns, and styles, though they are usually footed and worn under some item of skirt- or dress-type clothing.
