Everyone’s in thigh highs!

A classic example of the style! M-m-m, patent leather and Lucite! Yow-sa!

Whether they’re wearing spike-heeled leather boots or sheer tights with a garter belt, plenty of celebs are going thigh-high, more now than ever. It’s not a sexy look for everyone! When is above-the-knee leather a good idea and when does it just look silly? You decide with the photos below.

My comment: I recall a time when thigh-high boots implied one of two things about the wearer: either a certain type of personal evening employment or a certain ‘inexpensiveness’ about the wearer’s character. But that was a long time ago.

The way our culture is tending to develop (devolve?)– today anything goes… and the sexier the better. The boots (or stockings) now only imply that the wearer is a working professional entertainer who doesn’t yet look like Liza Minnelli. Formerly a wonderful actor/entertainer, there’s just something about being a lush for decades that should force women (AND men!) to give away the thigh-highs. (I think Liza’s are fish net.) Have you seen the Russell Brand photo? Russell, sweetie, you too are past your prime but at least trashy and disheveled is a part of the act.

There is just something about black leather that causes audiences’ nostrils to flare, eyebrows to lower and a certain ‘unease’ to creep through their nether regions. Strange. Remember in 1968 when Elvis suited up in neck-to-heel black leather for a comeback on TV? Of course you don’t. The hot TV lights + pharmaceuticals almost keeled him over. He had to do 4 shows in front of different audiences:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_(1968_TV_program)

At least ‘The King’ never pulled on the thigh-highs for the stage. That would have upstaged even the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Band uniforms. On second thought, maybe he should have.

Want to ID these showoffs above? And see many more examples of perhaps bad wardrobe advice followed? Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/20/thigh-highs-which-celeb-w_n_291523.html