We live in a stocking which is in the process of being turned inside out, without our ever knowing for sure to what phase of the process our moment of consciousness corresponds.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
...The fact that it's black transforms it. Has the same effect on women that black stockings have on men.
~ Daphne Du Maurier
What do you want? Sophronia was moved to exasperation.Me? Stockings and breeches to come back in fashion. I do miss seeing a man's calves.
~ Gail Carriger
