Me on the right, 1986, Club Magique, NYC, part of the Pharaoh show
Happy National Nylon Day!
Nylons were big in the 1980s. (Maybe not as big as our hair though!) I wore them often, especially onstage with Pharoah, as part of their stage act.
Men may disagree with me, but I saw thank goodness fashion has relaxed. We started going bare-legged in the 1990s. But I remember in the 1980s, running to the Quick Chek all the time to stock up on nylons because they’d get a run.
My go-to brand was L’eggs and they came in a cute little egg-like container.
Here’s another photo I found from the 1980s, wearing the nylons. It wasn’t even a fancy event, just dinner in the Bahamas with girlfriends. We just dressed up all the time. That’s how it was back then.
I don’t remember exactly when I ditched my nylons. I do remember switching to black tights; and black thigh-high tights with mini dresses in the mid-1990s. (I’ll share those photos another time). Courtney Love was all the rage and she wore dresses with her bare legs, and I followed that example. I remember the black chunky shoes were popular too. Bare legs and big black chunky shoes — that was a thing. You can see Alison rocking that style on “Melrose Place.”
Stockings were immortalized by The Beatles in “Lady Madonna” with the lyric: “Thursday night, your stockings needed mending. See how they run.”
Yes, indeed, they sure did run. And we ladies knew the trick to make them stop running — clear nail polish! (Or we’d just let them run because it was sexy!)
Cheers to the gone but not forgotten nylon. Or are they really gone?
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