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Plain or modest dress, shoes, stockings and leg covering for women?
I am wondering what other women are wearing on feet and legs? I have found shoes, socks and leg coverings to be the hardest items to figure out in my modest dressing over the years. I have been wearing a black shoe from Kmart that looks like a woman's old fashioned high top boot/shoe but that is not always available. Also, I'm in a cold climate and so in winter I have to switch to boots of some kind. For stockings I wear black knee socks but then the trouble is with the legs. Except in summer I wear leggings (stretch exercise wear?) and either the tops go over or into the socks. This keeps my legs nice and warm and covered. But this is never perfect - either the leggings show or they push the socks down.
Also, in summer I wear modern sandals (Teva type or some such) but I'm really not comfortable with my feet showing any more (Interestingly, the longer I dress modestly the more covered I feel I want to be!). Also, I definitely need to make some bloomers to wear under the summer dresses! Altogether too airy underneath.
thank you all for your replies.
Barb
Also, in summer I wear modern sandals (Teva type or some such) but I'm really not comfortable with my feet showing any more (Interestingly, the longer I dress modestly the more covered I feel I want to be!). Also, I definitely need to make some bloomers to wear under the summer dresses! Altogether too airy underneath.
thank you all for your replies.
Barb
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I love salwar kameez! I think they are the most practical garment known to womankind! 8-) And they can be made in anything from a cotton that can be tossed in the wash after gardening, to wools, silks, ANYTHING! Plain, patterned, embroidered . . .
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It's also very iteresting to see pictures of the first "bloomers" invented by Amelia Bloomer and how much they resemble salwar kameez...the Victorian Age was the age that first advocated exercise for women and bloomers allowed hemlines to go up enough for decent freedom of movement when required, without compromising modesty. I wonder if she was influenced by the pictures being sent back from India at the time?
Betsy Packard said:I love salwar kameez! I think they are the most practical garment known to womankind! 8-) And they can be made in anything from a cotton that can be tossed in the wash after gardening, to wools, silks, ANYTHING! Plain, patterned, embroidered . . .
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