At 05:19 PM 12/13/02 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
Jon Gabriel wrote:> >(Nylons aren't too bad over ice, as long as > >you're not doing it for long enough on cold enough ice to do any damage > >to your feet.) > > > > I've never worn nylons.
I have.
> (I think I'd probably be the ugliest > drag queen on the planet if I tried.) ;-)
That was the whole point.
Setting: A parody of "The Dating Game." The "bachelorettes": two real women and me in drag. Of course, the outcome was rigged . . .
Several people in the audience said that they thought when I came out, "I don't know who that girl is, but boy is she ugly . . . "
Well, they make these things called "knee-hi"s, same kind of stuff as pantyhose, but only go up to the knee. Very useful if you want to wear nice shoes with pants.
Personally, I usually wear socks. Leg hair trapped under nylons looks kinda funny.
Now, it would be a little weird when you had the gap between your shoes and the bottoms of your pants exposed, but I think you could get them in a really dark color (maybe smoke?) and it wouldn't be *quite* so obvious. That lets you wear the nylons over your feet without the whole drag-queen thing. :)
There's also the option of covering your dress shoes with "rubbers" so, in addition to the treads molded into the bottom of the overshoes providing traction on ice or snow (though not a whole lot: I have slipped while wearing them), the dress shoes are protected (at least somewhat) from the wet. Especially helpful if you are wearing shoes that happen to be more "dressy" than "waterproof" . . .
If traction is the only concern (sheet ice, no standing water, deep snow, or active precipitation, and the temperature is not too cold for dress shoes), I've seen things that are advertised as the shoe version of tire chains: the ones I saw looked kinda like the business end of a metal fish scaler with a length of elastic that would go around the shoe, leaving the metal teeth pointing down. I suppose they would work on ice, unless the elastic allowed them to slip off the shoe while the teeth were embedded in the ice. When I've lived places where winter weather was a problem, snow and icy water were usually a significant part of the problem (not to mention what the salt they put on the road or sidewalk do to good shoes), so I either wore overshoes or wore "moon boots" outside and changed into the other shoes when I went inside.
--Ronn! :)
TMI Maru
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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