What do you want?” Sophronia was moved to exasperation.”Me? Stockings and breeches to come back in fashion. I do miss seeing a man’s calves.

I have been obsessed with seamed stockings my whole life, and I would collect vintage ones that were made in the ’40s and ’50s with the authentic styling of the keyhole, the welt, the reinforced...

We live in a stocking which is in the process of being turned inside out, without our ever knowing for sure to what phase of the process our moment of consciousness corresponds.