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Super, Sexy Senior And Her Support Sox

At age 79 and 4 months, today I felt like a young teenager or possibly a young fifty something that had not gotten

her invitation to join AARP yet. It is a simple story but meaningful to me. I have been wearing what is called support hosiery for the last few years in order to keep the veins in place and the legs feeling OK. They are what are called knee highs supp to the knee which in my case is the bad right knee full of Cortisone shots and a few other brand name shots through the years.

I had been wearing them and they were kind of ugly. They often fell a bit and I had to bend down and pull them up. My husband, a retired pharmacist who stood on his legs many ten hour days for  thirty years was advised to wear them (men’s kind) about fifteen years ago for some vein problems. Everyone I know, nine out of ten ladies wear some sort of support hose often nicknamed supp hose or compression stockings.

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My friend Doris, a retired school principal told me she wore them in her younger years too because she was on her feet a lot. Hairdressers often wear them because they stand too. The ones I bought online were black, ugly brown and tan, all plain.

Well now I discovered pretty in style, funky colored ones online. Actually I was in the orthopedic doctor’s office when I complimented a woman probably in her fifties wearing these pretty funky ones because she was wearing shorts and these came to her knees and were quite visible.

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She did not remember where she bought them online; so when I came home I surfed the internet until I found them. They came in a variety of rainbow colors and one was a gray lacy type. I bought five pairs thinking if I did not like them or the fit, I would mail them back.

They sat there on the counter and today I had a visit with my female podiatrist and I showed them to her and she was all excited on how pretty and colorful they were. She took a pair of gray lacy looking ones from the wrappings and put them on me when she was finished with my visit.

Voila, she squealed, she loved them and she told me I would look and feel quite exciting and sexy in them. She said wait until Jerry sees them, it will be exciting. I looked down and she was right. I felt exhilarated, happy and daring wearing them beneath a gray skirt that looked like the skirt and supp hose had been in Vogue magazine in a stylish new winter page.

When I left her office, I had a spring in my step; I felt like everyone was admiring my new hosiery and thinking, wow, that senior is sure dressed quite stylishly. Yes, Dr. Sharon Siebold, you were right; I did feel exciting and sexy.

 

I went on the phone and I waited about thirty minutes to get connected to order another six pairs, to put away in the drawer in case the company went out of business or the hosiery stopped being manufactured. During World War Two, Dad bought Mom one dozen pair of nylon stockings costing one dollar each for December holiday time. Nylons were hard to get and she treasured them for about six months before she dared to use them. They laid spread out in her dresser drawer and she loved looking at them.

I bought three more of this gray lacy style, one with black circles, one with brown designs, several with a rainbow of many colors and a blue pair with triangles on them.


All in all I am the proud sexy owner of eleven pairs.

When you see a sexy, scintillating, special senior one day on the elevator going up in a building in Pikesville or Towson, maybe it will be me. I only wear skirts, no pants and therefore you will know it is me because of the skirt and the exciting colored supp hose, though you will not know they are only knee highs and not our beloved panty hose. They do come in panty hose and that will be my next purchase in the coming future.

Can you believe that a fancy, silly pair or pairs of support stockings could have put such a spring in my step and joy in my heart and such delight in my soul? I knew an artist who ran a framing and art gallery locally and she used to frame paintings for me. Everyone thought it cute she had a daughter named after a paint color, Violet.

Today I felt like a new and rejuvenated painting wearing my pretty way out colored support stockings. I do believe the Arthritic right knee will be feeling much better in time due to being right above the band of my rainbow and lace colored hosiery.

 

I guess as you age, simple things become delightful, exciting and most of all make the lady involved in it feeling like walking in the rain, tiptoeing in the tulips and most of all as the song use to say “dance all night.”

Maybe the new colored rainbow colored nylon stockings can even make the hurting knees feel a lot better. I bought them online in a place called  Body-Belle and when the charge came through on my credit card, the company name said Golden Violin, as some companies trade with different names.

So this senior is the bell of the ball in her new hosiery and as the golden violin plays, she is so happy over a simple set of support hose in several patterns and colors. Life is grand. Maybe this ‘magic’ hosiery will enable me to get back to my ballroom dancing real soon because my legs and knees will move easier because of the super and gorgeous hosiery. Miracles do happen.

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