Why did Mary Richards always wear panty hose to bed?

I think that was something Network Standards and Practices required then. You’ll also see women on 70s TV shows wearing pantyhose with shorts and bathing suits.

I wore them everywhere throughout the 70s!

I can assure you no woman would wear a pair of panty hose to bed. They are bad enough to have to wear during the day.

She wore them in the sack, too -- so she could fool men into thinking she was a virgin.

Because the show was filmed in front of an audience. There wasn’t extra time for elaborate costume changes. If she was wearing pantyhose with her work attire, Mary would go off stage change into her nightgown or whatever and get into bed. There wasn’t the luxury of long periods of time between set-ups. Scene after scene after scene. Of course the actress isn’t going to take off her hose for a quick costume change only to put them on again for the next office scene.

I had a friend who wore pantyhose all the fucking time and she literally smelled like a seafood boil. One time we had to share a hotel room for a weekend and another friend of mine showed up unexpectedly and I invited her to spend the night in our room. She slept in my bed with me and pantyhose was in her own bed all the way across the room. My friend and I were buried under the covers to get away from the smell, it was so pungent, and we were giggling and gagging the whole night.

I did not enjoy wearing the strap on to bed!

Used pantyhose can be repurposed to polish silverware without leaving a single scratch!

Both of the "Three's Company" gals wore pantyhose under their short-shorts, even when they were also wearing sneakers and socks.

Oh, Mr. Grant, I did not wear pantyhose to bed! How silly.

Women had to wear them in the office well into the 90’s. Do they still make them?

[quote] Both of the "Three's Company" gals wore pantyhose under their short-shorts, even when they were also wearing sneakers and socks.

YES! I always remember noticing Joyce was wearing pantyhose with shorts. I asked my mother about it and she told me I was too young to be noticing things like that. So years later when I told her I was gay and she asked if it was her fault, I cited that incident and firmly told her- Yes.

Suzanne Somers as Chrissy in Three's Company. In bed, wearing panty hose.

Plus it saved her having to put make-up on her legs.

Alternately sometimes Mary slept in her PVC catsuit, but only when she was entertaining.

They do keep you warm.

Back in the day did bank robbers really war pantyhose on their heads as a disguise, or was that just a TV cop show thing?

[quote]Used pantyhose can be repurposed to polish silverware without leaving a single scratch!

R8 if you the ones R6 talked about everything will be greasy.

…so she could split them open and gently rub her lady mound!

[quote] I think that was something Network Standards and Practices required then.

Bare legs and feet were considered nudity?

Mine were single-use only.

Our L’eggs fit your legs. They hug you, they hold you, they never let you go.

R6 that could easily be one of the most disgusting stories EVER told on Datalounge.

Congratulations!

[quote] Why did Mary Richards always wear panty hose to bed?

It's a way for women to protect their HOO HA from dangerous intruders!

Diana Rigg had to pop a gem into her navel for the American censors before doing a dance of the seven veils on "The Avengers."

R17 no, they wore nylon strockings

Now that women don’t wear hose, men should stop wearing socks all the time. Shoe designers should star designer cute designer sandal-shoes for men like they do for women.

R6 Why would you hang around with someone who smelled?

It wasn't a lifelong thing. At that point, I'd known her about 8 years and I would say it gradually cropped up about a year or so prior to this trip, lasted maybe 2 years, and then went away. It's been 20 years since I remember her having any odor, so maybe she had an infection or something. I sure didn't ask her about it.

Because, OP, hosiery was fashion staple. A woman wasn't properly attired unless she had on hosiery. To go barelegged was daring and perhaps a bit racy, so even actresses who were in character wore them for the sake of decency.

I always love it on movies and TV when women wake up in the morning in full make-up.

Also through the 50's at least women had to wear bras and heavy foundation garments under their nightgowns in the movies. I always stare at those and imagine how uncomfortable that would actually be to sleep in.

R6 Ok, sure, blame it on the pantyhose?

R6 My ex friend…

Do women still even wear pantyhose? I always thought pantyhose would be a terrible thing to endure. Seems like it would be very uncomfortable.

No, R34, her vag healed or repaired or her sinuses drained and she smelled herself because it finally went away.

One of the first times I went to my neighborhood laundrymat I was unloading my clean laundry from a machine and there was a fucking PANTY SHIELD stuck to the bottom of the drum. I immediately redid my laundry in a front loader machine and never again used a top loader machine. I'd have much rather seen a pair of pantyhose at the bottom of the drum.

R35, I think it's a generational thing. Younger generations of women have liberated themselves of the notion that they aren't properly dressed without pantyhose. There are still those in my generation, however, who think it's inappropriate to go barelegged in the office. We're close to retirement age though, so this will probably be a thing of the past, especially with all the younger, curvy ladies opting for leggings and yoga pants. (When did these become acceptable office attire?)

I haven't seen stockings or pantyhose on women in years, but I don't see dresses on women all that much, either, except in the summer, and then they don't wear anything on their legs, usually.

R29 Two years...?

Yes r20, being bare-legged was considered racy. Daisy Duke was famously forced by Standards & Practices to wear hose with her namesake shorts.

For shows filmed in front of a live studio audience, you keep the hose on to save time, as others already mentioned. If the actress is in something skimpy the hose are there to make it clear that the actress isn't mostly nude. This got mentioned in one of the Mitzi Gaynor threads, where she had outfits which used hose-like fabric which gave the illusion of nudity under a bunch of sequins, and one outfit was so convincing she got censored for it.

HONESTLY GIRLS!

Mary was so virginal, the pantyhose kept the mothballs in her coochie. If she ever got lucky, it was an effective ‘spunk’ catcher. Mr. Grant could attest to the spunk restrainer.

[quote]I always love it on movies and TV when women wake up in the morning in full make-up.

And men wake up clean-shaven.

Googling "Mary Richards pantyhose" takes you to Datalounge.

If she's wearing a nightgown she was probably wearing panyhose so she didn't flash the audience by mistake, and also as someone else said, so she wouldn't have to make up her legs - and besides, hose makes legs look better on camera. TV wasn't high-def in those days.

So Lou Grant could rip them apart like how the Japanese do.

It was Minneapolis for chrissake. IT'S COLD.

I beg your pardon.

The ultimate Dick blocker

or Murray in a hurry

^As if!