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A stocking, sometimes referred to as hose, is a close-fitting, variously elastic garment covering the foot and lower part of the leg. Stockings vary in color, design and transparency. Today, stockings are primarily worn by women for fashion and aesthetics.

Stockings can be held up in one of three ways:

• garter belt
• "Stay-up" technology.
• garter

In modern usage, stocking specifically refers to the form of women's hosiery configured as two pieces, one for each leg (except for American and Australian English, where the term can also be a synonym pantyhose). The term hold-ups and thigh highs refers to stockings that stay up by the use of built-in elastic, while the word stockings is the general term or refers to the kind of stockings that need a suspender belt (garter belt, in American English), and are quite distinct from tights or pantyhose (American English).

Other terms used with stockings include:

• Cuban heel
• Demi-toe
• Denier
• Fishnet
• Fencenet
• Full Fashioned
• Hold-ups or Stay-ups
• Knee-Highs
• Matte
• Mock seam
• Nude heel
• Opaque:
• RHT (reinforced heel and toe)
• Open-toed
• Sandalfoot
• Seamed
• Seamless
• Sheers
• Thigh-Highs
• Ultra Sheer
• Welt

Source: wikipedia.org
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