Women's black nylon stockings are usually a 'clingy' type of material; but being such a fine, thin fabric they do not keep feet warm in winter.

Now it is fall and the days are cooling down rapidly, just wearing stockings alone during the course of a day isn't enough to keep feet warm.

Most sensible women today are starting to haul out from the bottom drawer those good old stand-bys called socks or the more fashionable sockets. These sockets are often worn during the summer too just to stop shoes and feet from dirtying each other or to prevent running shoes from blistering feet.

Sockets are little socks that cover feet to the just below the ankles. Some have pom-poms as adornments on the heels but after summer is over, the pom-poms are removed because they don't fit into shoes comfortably over the top of the nylon stockings. It isn't quite cold enough yet to go for the heavier socks to cover feet inside snug boots but the sockets are definitely needed these mornings and evenings.

But no woman ever really considers not wearing stockings under those shorter skirts because beautifying legs is the name of the game if you want to attract a man's attention. Nothing beautifies legs better than a clean, clinging, ladder-less pair of black stockings.

There is something about the black colour that enhances the shape of a woman's leg better than most other colours. The calf muscles are more clearly defined giving the leg a shapely silhouette appearance.

And the black nylon stocking clinginess covering the leg makes it an unbeatable clothing combination for attracting a man's attention to a woman's legs.

But being an attractive lady with really cool looking legs still doesn't keep feet warm in winter.