awards

First post

First Post 2016-17

Welcome to the first post of 2016-17!

Dennis diamond

The weather today was not great, grey, dull, cooler so the hosiery came out to play. I always knew this blog would give people a whole lot of useless information and as you can see my first blog last year was when I set up around the third week of Sept. By then I had been wearing tights for about a week. Which means that the weather changed considerably around mid Sept, which is happening again this year too. See I’m offering meteorological insight as well as leg fashion advice!

This year being my second year of blogging will include new additions and also my award winners and runner ups.

Today’s tights of the day are Golden Lady diamond fishnets. Winner of May 2016, worn three times and unfortunately deceased after this wear due to holes in both big toe areas. They won because of the gorgeous, clear and vibrant pattern. The sun failed to materialise so they also lasted the whole day.

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Third award instalment

Third Award Instalment, May, June, July 2016

Hello and welcome back, this is the third award instalment of the Hose of Fun end of season special event. This was the second, this link to the first and this one to the intro

These last three months have only yielded a total of 14 excellent entrants,

May saw 8 candidates:

 

June started to get a little warmer and so only 4 entries,

 

And finally July, with the weather hotting up two pairs of holdups,

Sadly we have had to bid farewell to a few of our friends. They have served us well, giving warmth when cold, joy when we’re down, excitement when it’s been monotonous. sparkle when dull.

 

And for the ones we nearly lost:

Both succumbed to ladders but with a bit of DIY and luck with ladder positioning these two pairs of hosiery will live another day.

This my friends is the end of the end of season special report. Summer finally came in parts of July and definitely in August. I’ve spent this time finding storage for all my hosiery and to gather more. I have to mention my new friends! Mystockings, who have a wonderful and gorgeous supply of Ballerina hosiery and now Stop and Stare and Virivee which I’m dying to try and Collant.fr, over in France, for continental options. I can’t wait for the colder weather to start. I have loads and loads of new stuff to show you as well as fitting in some old favourites. I also have to introduce you to more new friends starting with legitup!

second award instalment

Second Award Instalment, Jan, Feb, March, April 2016

Welcome to the second award instalment of the Hose of Fun end of season review. If you missed the beginning of the report press this and for the first instalment click here.

January, another difficult month to judge with a massive hoard collected over my birthday and Christmas the selection was top notch. Special mention to the Gipsy diamond grid which possessed so many hidden touches. Out of 17 possibilities, here are my choices

 

February, was a month of planned patterned weeks. The upside of this is the anticipation of what I’m going to wear. The downside is having enough hosiery to complete a whole theme week. Oh well… more shopping!

 

In March, lots of bold patterns to choose from a selection of 19.

April, another batch of 19,

 

 

 

First award instalment

First Award Instalment, Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec 2015

Welcome to the first award instalment of the Hose of Fun, End of Season Awards! Tonight we’ll be celebrating the months of September, October and November 2015.

September, an easy month to judge. Only 9 entrants,

October, second month of blogging and 20 posts to choose from,

November, an extremely busy month with the highest number of entries at 25,

December, Another busy month with 20 entrants,

RIP 2015-16 hosiery

Hose of Fun End of Season Awards

As the Summer creeped into view I had an idea for my end of season awards. This post has proved more difficult to compose than I first expected.

  1. The summer never seemed to come. So I couldn’t officially announce the end of hosiery wearing. I was going to band the last three months into one but looking at the choice I couldn’t decide any winners because they were all winners!
  2. I started with a list of categories but I love so many pairs for their individuality that I feel I’m doing them an injustice in not picking them. So I’m changing the criteria and looking at each month and awarding the pair that I have or really really want to wear again.
  3. I am not very clever! I am a methodical person so I went through each month picking a winner and a runner up. I got half way through and was astounded at how easy it had been, too easy! I had a think and realised that I had not looked at all the posts for the months with a heftier number of entries. Duh! Start again!

I, Hose of Fun, officially announce the end of hosiery wearing season 2015-2016 by hosting the “Hose of Fun End of Season Awards”. The results will be posted over the next few weeks, pre hosiery wearing season 2016-2017.

First to open I will present to you the tights that unfortunately we have to say goodbye to. They served us well, providing us with joy and sadness, warmth and draughtiness, fun and comfort but they have climbed that ladder upwards towards hosiery heaven into retirement. Please share a few moments for…

(main picture, left, clockwise)

House of Holland primary colour zig zags, link and chains, Despicable Me, Fiore “Lavis”, tattoo lady print

and also let’s forget these,

grey argyle/tartan mock socks

tartan mock socks
tartan mock socks

, Gabriella hold ups “Vera” Gabriella vera top and Burlington Argyle What to wear when it rains