Kate Middleton Makes Hose Hip Again

Thursday, 07 July 2011 | by Pat's Picks

Is Kate Middleton bringing back pantyhose? She’s been photographed all over on her North American tour wearing sheer stockings, which, if not a fashion misstep is definitely a daring new road to traverse says the Boston Globe‘s Beth Teitell.  Or rather an old path most women thought they’d never visit again. But Teitell, who claims she’s always been staunchly anti-hose, says she felt herself wavering after observing Kate: “Her knees did not look dirty because she’d un-artfully applied a self-tanner. Prickly hairs were not showing. Pastiness was not an issue.”

I don’t know. If Kim Basinger couldn’t start a stockings revival with this circa 1991 ad, I don’t know how much of a chance Kate stands: