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Whenever the weather gets warmer and warmer, everyone's heart must be full of alacrity, because it marks the season of showing their thighs! However, compared with bare legs, there may be accessories to cover or modify the legs to make them look more beautiful. For example, the single product "suspender stockings" that I want to tell you this time ~
This picture shows the history of suspenders. From left to right are: the earliest conjoined corset, corset and corset, bra+waist+underwear+sling, bra+sling+underwear.
Most people are familiar with garters, such as TV dramas, e-commerce platforms, streets and fashion shows. You can see garters, even in the field of interest, garters also play an important role. Both boys and girls are easily attracted by the sexiness of garters, especially men, who have a higher preference for garters than women! Numerous literary and artistic works have repeatedly proved that men have no immunity to garters. More convincingly, the creators of these literary and artistic works are mostly men. 1977, French new wave director Truffaut asked his hero to say in the film "Looking for Marriage": "A woman's legs are like compasses, spinning the earth in various senses, ensuring its harmony and balance." However, the image of the compass is slightly stiff, and it looks a lot feminine with stockings and garters. Men end up dying for a few pairs of these thighs. In the movie Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, sophia loren staged a passionate striptease performance, and the first action of the performance was to untie the buckle of the garter. Men probably think that women's sexual attraction really begins when they take off their garters.
However, although many people know that there are all kinds of suspenders even in wardrobes and shopping carts, absolutely few people will think that suspenders were originally designed not for women, but for upper-class men!
Give everyone a fake science today! 300 years ago, the word "leg bending" was still a proper noun for men. At that time, it was popular for men to wear socks, but the shape of their legs determined that socks were easy to slide down. Therefore, witty men use a few thin suspenders to fix stockings so that they will not slip off, and the word suspenders comes into being.
Accurately speaking, the earliest thing for men in upper-class society is not garters, but stockings, which evolved from it. The earliest record of silk stockings in history is in the 4th and 6th centuries BC. In order to meet the needs of combat and protect the legs of soldiers, the armies of ancient Rome and Greece made silk stockings into exquisite silk stockings. In fact, the stockings and leggings worn by soldiers in China's ancient army were hundreds of years earlier than those worn by westerners.
The topic is beside the point! Garters were men's products in17-18th century Europe. At that time, aristocratic men were richly dressed and well dressed. They decorated the stockings with lace and fixed them with suspenders to prevent them from slipping off. Besides, when western men sit down, it is very impolite for people to see their bare ankles.
/kloc-in the 6th century, I was with men in the upper class and liked stockings and high heels. Elegant and beautiful stockings have become the exclusive dress socks for aristocratic men. Until19th century, trousers were popular in western countries. In order to adapt to the trend and application, men's formal socks were taken off from thighs to calves. BLACKPINK, a man's suspenders, appeared on the stage of history!
Since the19th century, the popularity of trousers has completely replaced stockings as the bottoms of men's clothes, and men's garters have entered history textbooks.
A woman who loves beauty doesn't want to be lonely and backward. When women's skirts become shorter, more people wear stockings. But at that time, modern materials such as silicone, plastic, nylon and spandex had not yet appeared, and inelastic stockings had to rely on something to fix their eloquence from slipping off their thighs. And this kind of socks can show their long legs, highlight the sexy and charm of women, spare no effort to match high heels, a variety of colors and shapes, and constantly interpret the infinite excitement of the sling world! Garters are also sexy items from men's exclusive to girls' wardrobes.
Especially in the middle and late 20th century, suspenders and stockings became a necessity for girls. At that time, girls wore suspenders and corsets every day. Like tights, corsets aim to make women's waistlines slimmer and more perfect. It has gradually become exclusive to women! Now the sling we are talking about is very different from the boy sling in popular science. As the name implies, women's suspenders are stockings and suspenders are needed. Further subdivision requires three parts: stockings, ribbons and elastic bands at the top of socks.
Changes in fashion are always associated with technological revolution. In the 1970s, the appearance of high-elastic jumpsuits made of nylon fibers directly led to the decline of garters. One-piece stockings are as thin as cicadas' wings and tightly wrap the body like the second skin. At the same time, they cover up the defects of the first skin, perfectly show the curves of women's hips and legs, and quickly fascinate women, especially men. The stockings in the women's inner wardrobe were replaced by pantyhose, and the garters could only be drawn out of the bedroom.
By the 1980s, many underwear companies had completely stopped producing garters, and the evolution of this style was also a process of gradual improvement of the market. Interested friends can learn about it themselves, so I won't introduce it in detail here. But fashion is like a circle, and now underwear is blowing again. This trend has really started to make women think about whether they should "tolerate those who please themselves" or "tolerate those who please themselves". So in the long process of evolution, we have seen the garters on the market now, but compared with the practicality of the garters in the past, the garters now seem to be sexy decorations!