I just watched a video on the internet about how to wear garter belts. One of the reasons for women to wear garter belts the woman in the video said was to spice up the sex life. It is interesting to note that a once necessary part of a woman's apparel is now a way to spice up the sex life. Can you imagine a time when women had to wear garter belts to hold up their stockings and not think of them as a way to enhance sex?
Panty hose have taken over the stocking market these days. I cannot tell you when panty hose hit the market but I can tell you the product has not enhanced people's sex life. Convenience is the sales point when developing under garments for women. They after all are the ones who wear them.
But let us say this right off. Long before videos about garter belts online women have stopped dressing with the idea of sex appeal in mind. The garter is novelty item today. Oh sure you can see them in magazine lingerie ads. But only as part of a sex costume women would don only one night a year... If then; on the husband or boyfriend's birthday night... If he is lucky. Then is it back into the drawer until next year. Women let's face it do not even wear dresses.
You might be too young to remember this and you might not believe this but girls actually used to wear dresses most of the time. Yes, that is right. When I went to elementary school and junior high most if not all females wore dresses. This changed by the time I got to high school. I remember in junior high I had some teachers who wore some great dresses. And back then it was a question of how high the knee was cut above the knee. That made going to school fun.
But today you can go to school, the market, the post office and you will nothing but blue jeans, pant suits, and slacks on women. You can forget about garter belts altogether. I guess it is a matter of convenience. But is also about our culture.
It is easier to put on a pair of pants. It is easier to wash and iron a pair of slacks. And it is easier sit down with slacks and not worry about the dress rising up or have a concern about modesty. By the way if you are a Brit when I say pants I am referring to trousers. I know the Brits use the word pants for underwear. I am not saying women are now walking around in their underwear only.
The trouser wearing female however is a result of the 1970's women's lib movement when bra burning was the craze. Women is that rebellious time went onto college campuses and threw there bras into burning trash cans.
If you notice though most of these women were wearing dresses. And they were pretty short dresses at that. Kind of like the ones my teachers in junior high wore. But later these women outside the camera view must have burned their dresses too. Because there are sure no more women wearing sexy short dresses let alone garter belts where I live.
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