Sentence examples for stockings at from inspiring English sources

Hemingway first caught Gigi (his childhood nickname) trying on his mother's stockings at the age of nine or 10.

To freshen the skirt, dampen it, then bunch, twist and bind it tightly with old soft stockings at the three seams.

A bower of T-shirts and Nike pump high-tops forms a passageway into boutiques with bin upon bin of nylon stockings at discount prices.

She planted her bare, stocky legs wide apart while she looked at me. "I never wear a hat or stockings at all," she remarked.

A young lady looking at a pair of stockings at the hosiery counter at Ohrbach's asked the salesgirl precisely what shade they were.

One favorite route took her from placid Bloomsbury into seedy Soho, where she haggled over silk stockings at the Berwick Street Market.

The stockings twisted at the seams, and her hands were cramped in the new gloves.

The men's clothes were far more interesting than the women's because they did not rely on beige body stockings that at times made the female models look like nearly naked Barbie dolls.

Hers was the year that Nabokov published "Lolita," that "Marty" won the Oscar for Best Picture and Cole Porter's musical "Silk Stockings" opened at the Imperial Theater in New York.

The charge against her was not blocking traffic, as it might have been, considering the size of the crowd that was attracted when she appeared in the principal street in a skirt which was slashed several inches above the knee, blue stockings showing at every step.

Compression stockings, sold at some pharmacies and online, are also worth considering.