panty hose
Example Sentences
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Collins’s parents struggled during her childhood: her mother suffered from bipolar disorder, and her father was overwhelmed with illness and financial problems, which began when people stopped wearing panty hose.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 6, 2016
Women are allowed four pairs of underwear and two pairs of panty hose a year, and a new raincoat every 10 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2016
“Grab it from here,” says Tommy Femia, 52, who is also wearing panty hose, three-inch heels and a dark-brown wig that belts out Carnegie Hall, 1961.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2011
Her rough-hewn miniskirt made out of some kind of sandpaper fibre sat atop a pair of bright-violet panty hose, which also seemed unnecessary, given the warm June weather.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 7, 2010
Carefully she put on her first pair of nylon panty hose while Aunt Consuelo braided her hair and pinned the braids on top of her head.
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
