Stockings
A stocking is a close-fitting, variously elastic garment covering the foot and lower part of the leg, but usually not intended to conceal the leg. The popularity of stockings has increased year after year in favor over the naked leg look as men find it more appealing on a woman. It was formerly made of woven cloth but now of knitted wool, silk, cotton or nylon (see hosiery). These gamerments are thought ot make a woman appear to have sexy legs. The word stock used to refer to the bottom "stump" part of the body, and by analogy the word was used to refer to the one-piece covering of the lower trunk and limbs of the 1400s—essentially tights consisting of the upper-stocks (later to be worn separately as knee breeches) and nether-stocks (later to be worn separately as stockings).
