Line #164 Main/StockingFiller


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3	->''"I can't believe there was once a time when women wore garter belts ALL the time, not just to be sexy, then some guy invented pantyhose. That guy's a major league asshole."''
4	-->-- '''Mitch Fatel''', stand-up comic
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6	We all know what MsFanservice wears to accentuate certain assets: the [[OfCorsetsSexy corset]]. What if she wants to ShowSomeLeg as well?
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8	That's where Stocking Filler comes in. We have [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishnet fishnet stockings]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knee-Highs knee-high stockings]], and, of course, the ever-popular [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garter_(stockings) garter]].
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10	For works prior to the 1960s, this was something of an EnforcedTrope, as American and European women simply wore stockings every day as part of their regular underwear. Initially the stockings were opaque knitted ones in your basic white (for young women) and black (for older ones), while working-class women might get away with brown or grey. With the shorter hemlines that came into fashion shortly after the turn of the 20th century, stockings became less underwear and more a fashion statement--new designs were lighter, more translucent, and came in a variety of patterns and colors--but were still considered mandatory wear; there were even black swimming stockings meant to be worn with bathing suits. A pair of silk stockings might set a lady back a whole $2.50 (nearly $30 in 2018 dollars), and when cheaper, more durable nylon stockings became available in 1939, they were considered a boon to womankind. When stockings became unavailable due to shortages of silk and nylon during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, women simply drew lines up the backs of their calves to imitate stocking seams (in the time before seamless stockings, a crooked seam was seen as slatternly). A special makeup was even developed for use on the legs to mimic the appearance of stockings, with poorer women going so far as using tea or ''gravy'' to temporarily dye their legs rather than be seen bare-legged in public.
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12	However, due to [[ValuesDissonance the strict moral standards of the day]] (of which UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode is exemplar), scenes depicting the full ensemble with garters and all were uncommon in American movies (though more frequent in European films); however, there were exceptions to the rule for [[PlayedForLaughs using the trope for comedic purposes]], and things started loosening up in Hollywood movies during the '50s. These days, they're considered [[AwesomeButImpractical inconvenient for daily wear]] (much like the corset was decades before), due to factors such as the widespread popularity of short skirts since the '60s and the introduction of pantyhose during the same decade, but still frequently encountered for {{fanservice}} purposes or as a throwback to the Golden Age of Hollywood.
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14	Expect the FemmeFatale to be dressed this way, and very likely to use the garters as a hiding place for money, [[ChastityDagger concealed weapons]] or a flask. Also, in Stocking Filler scenes, the lead actress will most frequently wear black stockings with seams running up the back of the legs to conform with RuleOfSexy (in the real world, "nude" or flesh-toned is the most popular color for hose, and seams are very rarely seen except as decorations on special occasions). Actresses in movies and shows set in the 19th and early 20th centuries will also most frequently be seen wearing black or white stockings in Stocking Filler scenes, often with fancy decorations on the calves and ankles. In this case, it's TruthInTelevision due to the manufacturing and dyeing processes of the time (and social mores which prevented women from showing their legs but did wink at them flashing their ankles in flirtation or seduction).
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16	When you see a Stocking Filler scene in a PeriodPiece, check what kind of garter the actress is wearing to see if the costume department has been [[ShownTheirWork doing their research work properly]]. Before the late 19th century, stockings were customarily held up by round garters, ribbons of various materials, or even simply rolled up at or above the knee. Garter straps (also often called suspender straps) were introduced as attachments to corsets during [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain the Victorian Era]], and garter belts in the modern sense came along during TheRoaringTwenties as skirts got shorter and corsets fell out of fashion, while flappers rebelliously rolled their stockings to just below the knee. Along with pantyhose, stockings with special elastic bands at the thighs were introduced during the 1960s. Also, thigh-length stockings were fairly uncommon before the late 19th century; most stockings were knee-length or extended just a couple of inches above the knee.
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18	Most often revealed in a LingerieScene. Not to be confused with ''Series/SilkStalkings'', an early '90s TV show (though there were several Stocking Filler scenes in that show), nor {{Filler}}, [[{{Fanservice}} which may or may not include stockings]]. Historically an AlwaysFemale trope, though in more modern interpretations, even the guys have been known to flash a garter on occasion.[[note]]Garters for men's socks ''do'' exist, but these are usually a pair of small, plain straps just below the knee and hidden under trousers, and are rarely ever seen, much less used for titillation. After the advent of elasticized men's socks, male garters largely fell by the wayside outside of formalwear and are typically depicted in media only to show that the character is hopelessly old-fashioned or comically fastidious.[[/note]]
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20	See also: ZettaiRyouiki - this is when Stocking Filler goes higher than the knee and worn with a shorter skirt. See also: PlayboyBunny, for whom stockings or hose are an essential element of the outfit. [[RuleOfThree See also]]: ProperTightsWithASkirt. Compare VictoriasSecretCompartment for another use of underwear to conceal objects.
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23	!!Examples:
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29	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
30	* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': Asuna and Setsuna during the [[InevitableTournament Budokai mini-arc]], as part of their InstantCosplaySurprise PantyFighter outfits.
31	* ''Anime/{{Hellsing}}'': Yumie always wears garters under her nun's habit.
32	* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': During the [[MartialArtsAndCrafts Martial Arts Dining]] arc, Ranma had to wear an antique French maid's costume (in girl form) by her opponent's instructor. So, for training, she usually doffed the dress and wore just the corset, [[PantyShot women's panties]], and a garter belt with stockings.
33	* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': Faye always wears a set of garters and thigh-highs with her shorts.
34	* All of the Mew Mews from ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' (the only exception being Mew Ringo from the games) wear a garter on one of their legs.
35	* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' gives us Stocking, who can turn her stockings into ''[[KatanasAreJustBetter katanas]]''.
36	* M.M. and Adelheid Suzuki from ''Manga/Reborn2004'' both wear stockings with suspenders.
37	* ''Manga/GhostTalkersDaydream'': Misaki is [[{{dominatrix}} a dominatrix]], so sexy lingerie comes with the territory; often combined with garters and thigh-high boots. Even when she isn't wearing her S&M attire, she'll occasionally wear nylons for lounging around the house.
38	* Aki Izayoi from ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds''. It was also edited in the dub to make it look that she's wearing knee-high socks instead, and replacing this trope with ZettaiRyouiki.
39	* ''Anime/TheMagnificentKotobuki'': Ririko the waitress has garters in addition to her skirt.
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42	[[folder:Comic Books]]
43	* ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} gets this treatment (combined with OfCorsetsSexy) for her trademark fishnets in ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers'' mini-series.
44	* Orgasm Lass from ''ComicBook/XXXenophile'', as might be expected from a superheroine with sex-based superpowers.
45	* ''Little Ego'' often ends up wearing a garter belt, stockings and nothing else.
46	* A traditional element of ''ComicBook/LadyDeath'''s outfit. If it can be called that.
47	* Surprisingly common in "spicy" comic strips of the '30s and '40s, even turning up in the [[http://dc192.4shared.com/img/K2oY0ogM/s7/0.2384010647504502/mandrake2a.jpg Mandrake dailies at one point]]. On the other side of the Atlantic, ''Jane'' was boosting home front morale in [[http://dc192.4shared.com/img/ldGKf3sQ/s7/0.03781927718811129/jane6.jpg the traditional manner]].
48	* In ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'', Envy Adams puts on stocking on the last volume of the series.
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51	[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
52	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' The showgirl mouse who sings "Let Me Be Good To You" is wearing a garter on her right leg.
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55	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
56	* ''Film/AtomicBlonde'' has a LingerieScene where Creator/CharlizeTheron is putting on a HiddenWire, which involves tucking a recorder into her stocking, taping the wire to her body and attaching the microphone to her bra, in order to provide an excuse for a lingering fanservice shot.
57	* In ''Film/MrAndMrsSmith2005'', Jane Smith hides knives in her garters.
58	* ''Film/MoulinRouge'': The Moulin Rouge dancers wear neon-colored stockings with visible black garters as part of their regular stage costumes. Probably more memorable is a scene in which Satine wears a black negligee with matching stockings and garters on full display.
59	* ''Film/{{Chicago}}'' features a lot of stockings and garters as part of its 1920s setting. The opening number "All That Jazz" contains the line "right up here is where I store the juice," in a nod to jazz dolls hiding a flask of illegal hooch into their stocking tops. Roxie in particular is notorious for allowing her skirt to creep high enough to flash her garters, even using it to great effect in her own murder trial.
60	* ''Film/FrenchCancan.'' Possibly the ''sole reason this movie was made,'' the film is set in France in the late 19th century and involves a man's efforts to revive the cancan, in which the dancers flash their stocking-clad legs, garters, and frilly knickers.[[note]]In Real Life, the reason the cancan was considered scandalous was because the dancers frequently omitted the "frilly knickers" part.[[/note]]
61	* Lori's introductory scene, wearing black stockings attached to garter straps as part of her FrenchMaidOutfit, in ''Film/TheManWhoKnewTooLittle''.
62	* ''Film/JamesBond''
63	** Worn by Pushkin's mistress in ''Film/TheLivingDaylights''. Bond rips her dress off [[DistractedByTheSexy to provide a distraction]] when Pushkin's bodyguard crashes into the room and it does the job quite nicely.
64	** Paris Carver in ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies''. It's first shown when Bond strips her down and she's shown [[ToplessnessFromTheBack Topless from the Back]]. The very first shot of her after she and Bond have sex is her rearranging her garters.
65	** In the unofficial ''Bond'' film ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain'', TheVamp Fatima Blush has a victim hooked on heroin to force him to obey her. She carries a hypo filled with the drug in a garter belt (under a [[NaughtyNurseOutfit nurse's uniform]] no less) and exposes it while taking out the hypo. On Website/YouTube [[https://youtu.be/5VuMprbYzyY?t=1m5s starting at 1:05]].
66	** Creator/DanielaBianchi, in ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'' (to be precise, she wasn't wearing garters, but black silk stockings rolled above the knees; this isn't clearly seen in the scene as released, but an alternate version was shot - there are several promotional photos from that version - which clearly show her exposed, stockinged legs).
67	*** The "alternate version" of the above scene from which those photos come was actually a screen-test of Bianchi. According to 007 film lore, this scene has been used ever since to screen-test potential "Bond girls".
68	* Both Silk Spectres get variations of this in the ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' movie, although in Sally's case it's justified by the fact that pantyhose weren't yet common in the 1950s.
69	** The original Silk Spectre does wear stockings and suspenders in the comic.
70	* The senior girls in the ''Film/StTrinians'' movies (as part of their SexySchoolwoman uniforms).
71	* In ''Film/TheGraduate'', the older seductress MrsRobinson is seen wearing garters. (The still of Creator/AnneBancroft removing her stockings while Creator/DustinHoffman watches is iconic.)
72	* In the 1932 film ''Film/RedHeadedWoman'', when Lil (Creator/JeanHarlow) is seducing her boss, she shows him that he put a small picture of him to her garter. Later, when he wants to break up with her, she shows her stockings again to prove that she's removed the picture.
73	* Extremely briefly appears in ''Film/ScaryMovie2'', when the girls attempt to parody ''Film/CharliesAngels2000'' and screw it up.
74	* ''Film/LayerCake''. Tammy (Creator/SiennaMiller) slips off her normal underwear in the bathroom and changes into black stockings and suspenders, expecting to have sex with the protagonist. Too bad, he gets kidnapped just before they were about to do it.
75	* The aptly titled ''Film/SilkStockings'' has an extended transformation scene showing Creator/CydCharisse donning the titular garments. Although we don't see any garters/garter belts; this was during the Hays Code era where lingerie was considered highly risqué (it was even mentioned by name as a no-no in the Code).
76	* Creator/SeanYoung, wearing black-seamed stockings and suspenders during her character's limousine sex scene with Kevin Costner's character in ''Film/NoWayOut1987'', though Costner strips her down to bare skin before they actually get it on.[[note]]It's actually fairly rare in mainstream Hollywood films to see a female character wearing her lingerie, not just stockings, all the way through a sex scene, though it's extremely common in erotic movies, both so-called "softcore" and explicit pornographic films.[[/note]]
77	* Creator/BrigitteBardot and Creator/JeanneMoreau in several onstage scenes, performing as "The Two Marias", in ''Film/VivaMaria''. They accidentally lose their outfits during their first performance, ending up in their fancy lingerie, and it turns out to be such a hit that they incorporate it into their act; it's humorously implied that they thereby invented striptease.
78	* Creator/GinaLollobrigida in ''La Donna Piu' Bella Del Mondo'' (''Beautiful But Dangerous''), wearing black stockings and suspenders in the scene in Paris where she performs dressed as a can-can girl.
79	* Creator/CatherineDeneuve, wearing full-fashioned seamed stockings and suspenders in her sex scene with Gerard Depardieu in ''Film/TheLastMetro''.
80	* Creator/JayneMansfield, revealing herself to be wearing black stockings and suspenders attached to her corset when she undresses in her bedroom in an early scene in ''Film/ItHappenedInAthens''.
81	* Creator/SophiaLoren, in ''Film/YesterdayTodayAndTomorrow'', one of her most iconic scenes (and reprising the scene in ''Pret-a-Porter'' (''Ready to Wear'')), with the same actor (Creator/MarcelloMastroianni).
82	* Loren again in ''The Millionairess'', combining this trope with OfCorsetsSexy when she undresses to try to seduce the doctor played by Creator/PeterSellers in his office.
83	* Creator/MarilynMonroe is briefly seen wearing black, back-seamed stockings, rolled at the knees, with her otherwise white lingerie when she's changing out of her stage clothes in an early scene in "[[Film/ThePrinceAndTheShowgirl]]". She also wears black stockings with seams in "[[Film/SomeLikeItHot]]", most noticeable in her introductory scene where she's startled by a steam blast from a nearby train striking her in her shapely rump.
84	* Creator/JanetMargolin wears a sexy ensemble including black stockings held in place by garter straps attached to a bustier during a scene in her 1979 movie ''The Last Embrace'', in which [[spoiler:disgusing herself as a prostitute in a Niagara Falls hotel, she seduces a man before drowning him while they have sex in the bathtub]].
85	* Creator/JeannetteMacDonald (!) in the Creator/ErnstLubitsch version of ''[[Film/TheMerryWidow1934 The Merry Widow]]''. [[note]]In point of fact, she had so many lingerie scenes in her early career during the "Pre-Code" era that she was sobriquetted "The Lingerie Queen of the Talkies" by her studio's PR people[[/note]]
86	* Creator/JoanCollins wears stockings and suspender/garter belts as Fontaine Khaled in ''The Stud'' (based on a novel by her sister Creator/JackieCollins) and ''The Bitch''.
87	* Creator/JenniferConnelly, shown putting on her stockings as she dresses for an evening out with her boyfriend in ''Film/TheRocketeer''.
88	* Creator/HelenMirren, seen wearing stockings and suspenders/garter belts under her designer outfits in several scenes in ''Film/TheCookTheThiefHisWifeAndHerLover''.
89	* Olga Georges-Picot, who strips down to her lingerie, again including black stockings and suspenders, in the Creator/WoodyAllen film ''Film/LoveAndDeath''.
90	* Creator/SylviaKristel wears flesh-colored back-seamed stockings with white garter straps during two sex scenes in her 1981 movie ''Lady Chatterley's Lover''.
91	* ''Film/TheFifthMusketeer'': Louise de la Valliere (Creator/UrsulaAndress), after stripping down to her underwear, climbs into bed with King Louis XIV (Creator/BeauBridges) and removes her white stockings, making sure the King gets a good look at her shapely legs.
92	* ''Film/TheSensuousNurse'': Ursula Andress, as the titular character, strips down to white stockings/garter belt in one scene.
93	* Creator/OrnellaMuti, playing a Belle Epoque courtesan, wears elaborate Victorian lingerie, including stockings, in the 1983 movie ''Swann in Love''.
94	* Laura Antonelli in ''Till Marriage Do Us Part''; when she [[spoiler:loses her virginity to her chauffeur]], his difficulty in removing her complicated, elaborately fastened undergarments is a key part of the comedy in that scene, though he finally manages to get her stripped down to her black stockings by cutting through the Gordian knot, as it were, and slicing her corset off (and cutting her stockings loose from the suspender straps holding them up) with his pocketknife.[[note]] As a side note, in real life, women in the 19th and early 20th centuries customarily wore drawers open at the crotch to allow them to go to the bathroom - and as a side effect, made sexual access without the necessity of taking off their clothes much easier. Antonelli's character, however, is wearing closed-crotch drawers; very few "mainstream" movies set in the Victorian/Edwardian period depict open-crotch drawers being worn, though as noted above, this will be seen in so-called "erotic" movies.[[/note]]
95	* Actresses such as Shannon Whirry and Shannon Tweed often had Stocking Filler scenes in the low-budget, straight-to-video "erotic thriller" movies of the 1990's, (many of them made by former porn director Gregory Hippolyte), either as part of a straight LingerieScene or during sex scenes.
96	* While actual Stocking Filler scenes were few and far between in the Production Code era, there were numerous "cheesecake" pinup photographs of starlets wearing round garters (often over tights, usually fishnets, which were considered less risque than stockings baring the thighs).
97	* Maggie [=DuBois=] (Creator/NatalieWood) in ''Film/TheGreatRace'' [[ShowSomeLeg shows her legs in a fancy black, elaborately-patterned silk stocking]] to her editor to get him to allow her to cover the titular race; later on in the movie, she wears a fancy pink corset with equally fancy black stockings which gets thoroughly messed up during the climactic food fight.
98	* The 1958 film version of ''Theatre/CatOnAHotTinRoof'' shows Maggie Pollitt (Creator/ElizabethTaylor) changing her stockings at the beginning.
99	* In the 1958 Creator/JerryLewis movie "The Geisha Boy", Marie [=McDonald=] [[PlayedForLaughs plays this trope for comedy]] when she suffers a "wardrobe malfunction" at the hands of the klutzy Lewis and bounces down a flight of airplane boarding/debarkation stairs on her shapely rump, clad in black satin girdle with attached garters, black nylons, and high heels.
100	* Creator/NancyAllen in black stockings and garters in ''Film/DressedToKill''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eju7tE9yp3o Holy crap.]]
101	* Needless to say, the ''Film/CarryOn'' franchise [[http://dc162.4shared.com/img/TGl1hrjp/s7/COR.jpg made frequent use]] of the stocking filler during the early 60s, although the trope fell out of fashion as the miniskirt grew in popularity.
102	* Sweet Pea in ''Film/SuckerPunch''.
103	* Lily (Creator/MilaKunis) in ''Film/BlackSwan'' is shown wearing black garters in her sex scene with Nina (Creator/NataliePortman).
104	* In ''Film/TheFly1986'', Seth asks for a personal item of Veronica's, like a piece of jewelry, to demonstrate his teleporter. She peels off a stocking and hands it to him, saying "I don't wear jewelry."
105	* Creator/KirstenDunst, nude except for a pair of white silk stockings (embroidered at the ankles) and holding a fan to conceal strategic places, consummates her passion for Count Axel Fersen (Jamie Dornan) in ''Film/MarieAntoinette2006''.
106	* ''Film/{{Sunset\|1988}}'': The Spanish dancer in ''El Coyote'' is wearing stocking and suspenders, that are shown off to great effect while she is dancing the tango with Tom Mix.
107	* In ''Film/YoungLadyChatterleyII'', all of the maids on the Chatterley Estate wear suspender belts and stockings under their uniforms ([[VaporWear and no other underwear]]). The deeply repressed Judith (Creator/SybilDanning) is revealed to be wearing stockings and suspenders under HotLibrarian outfit when she succumbs to Thomas' seduction. In the prequel, ''Young Lady Chatterley'', the titular character (played by Harlee [=McBride=]) wears stockings and garters (with knee-high boots) while having sex with a hunky hitchhiker in the back seat of her limousine (giving her chauffeur an eyeful to remember!) as well as in the last sequence when, dolled up as a grand eighteenth-century lady, she wears white stockings and garters while making love to her paramour. Her ancestor (from whom she inherited the estate), the original Lady Chatterley, wears white stockings with suspender straps in her first sex scene with the gamekeeper at the beginning of the movie.
108	* In ''Film/AmericanMary'', Mary arrives for her interview to be a masseuse wearing a black bustier with matching garter belt, stockings and stripper heels. This outfit reappears multiple times over the course of the film.
109	* ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout''. The White Widow has a butterfly knife tucked into her stocking.
110	* In ''Film/KissMeQuick'', several of the girls in Dr. Breedlove's castle are wearing black stockings and suspender belts. The camera lingers on every detail as they slowly remove them.
111	* In ''Film/StrippedToKill'', Cody/Sunny always wears garter belts and stockings during her [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn striptease act]].
112	* Jane wears a garter belt and stockings ([[GoingCommando and no panties]]) when she goes out cruising for rough trade in ''Film/TheNewYorkRipper''.
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115	[[folder:Literature]]
116	* Lampshaded in ''Literature/TheShortestWayToHades'' by Sarah Caudwell. Selena notes that she and her friend Julia are greeted at a party by a woman wearing "[[FrenchMaidOutfit a black dress, black stockings, and a little white pinafore]]." Apparently, the dress was short enough that Selena didn't need to guess that they were stockings and not tights.
117	* Clare in ''Literature/TheTimeTravelersWife''.
118	-->'''Henry:''' Stockings and garters. My kind of girl.
119	* Literature/SisterhoodSeries by Creator/FernMichaels: Maggie Spritzer wears stockings, as ''Razor Sharp'' shows.
120	* Literature/DominoLady's costume includes stockings (and apparently [[VaporWear no other underwear]]). She often keeps a small automatic holstered in her garter.
121	* ''Spitfire Girls'' by Carol Gould. An aviatrix is pitching the idea of using female pilots for ferry duties. As she leads some VIP's around the airfield, one of them barges through a door without knocking and sees a pretty pilot with her skirt hitched up, adjusting her suspenders. Later she muses that the flash of garter might have been more effective in gaining a supporter than anything she might have said.
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125	* Sarah hides knives in her garter in the first episode of ''Series/{{Chuck}}''.
126	* ''Series/{{Greek}}'', "The Great Cappie": Casey hides a bottle of "illegal" hooch on the garter belt of her '20s flapper dress.
127	* Fashionista Phryne Fisher in ''Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries'' loves her silk stockings and garters and is not the least shy about showing them off. Phryne's also notorious for tucking a tiny dagger into her stocking top as a backup for her pearl-handled pistol.
128	* As mentioned above, several episodes of ''Series/SilkStalkings''.
129	* Virtually [[http://dc162.4shared.com/img/iI7pT8Vi/s7/benny04.jpg every female character]] ever in ''Series/TheBennyHillShow''. Several times an episode [[http://dc192.4shared.com/img/aG8PaleP/s7/0.890922548658356/guides002.jpg in some cases]]; most frequently during [[http://dc192.4shared.com/img/5MrxrGF9/s7/0.32719428641513515/park001.jpg the "chase" scene]] towards the end.
130	* Original [[Series/TheAvengers1960s Avenger girl]] Cathy Gale carried her gun in a garter holster. Her successor Purdy (Joanna Lumley) of ''Series/TheNewAvengers'' was a 'stocking and suspender girl' despite the invention of pantyhose.
131	* Creator/RomolaGarai wears Victorian-era black stockings in several scenes in the 2011 BBC adaptation of ''Literature/TheCrimsonPetalAndTheWhite''.
132	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIXh9cXnOYA#t=1m24s This reporter]] on Bloomberg News.
133	* Averted in a ''Series/RemingtonSteele'' episode. Remington and Laura are shackled together and hiding in a barn. He looks forward aloud to her 'getting comfortable' by taking off her stockings. Laura sinks his boat by telling him she's wearing pantyhose.
134	* Ace in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' adventure "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric Curse of Fenric]]". When fighting the haemovores on the church roof, her kicking leaves no doubt that she is wearing stockings instead of anachronistic tights [pantyhose].
135	* All of the female ''Series/AmericanGladiators'' (and all the male ones too, in fact) wear costumes/uniforms that leave their legs bare except for Lace, who wears lace stockings because duh, her name is ''Lace''.
136	* ''Series/AlloAllo''. The notoriously "dicky ticker" of [[DirtyOldMan Monsieur Alfonse]] acts up when he sees the black stockings of Private Helga Geerhart in "The Exploding Bedpan".
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139	[[folder:Video Games]]
140	* Tear Grants from ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'' owns garters that not only hold her red stockings up but also holster throwing knives under her dress.
141	* Excellen Browning of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' sports barely visible garters for her casual wear. While it seems like an aesthetic design, it makes sense when you realize she's the series' MsFanservice.
142	* Belle of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesTheCrystalBearers''.
143	* ''VideoGame/TheSims3'' always had stockings available (pantyhose, thigh-high and knee-high) but the ''Late Night'' expansion pack additionally introduced "sleepwear" with garters.
144	* ''VideoGame/GrimFandango'' makes a point of Meche taking a damaged stocking off in one puzzle.
145	* Bianca wears orange pantyhose under her skirt in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite''. In the sequel games, she loses them in favor of pants.
146	** Mega Lopunny's dark legs are intended to resemble fishnets, a tie-in to its usual Playboy Bunny inspired appearance.
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149	[[folder:Western Animation]]
150	* ''{{WesternAnimation/ReBoot}}'': Hexadecimal, after Season 2, has garters added to her outfit. (In her Virus form, the garters appear to be attached to her [[OfCorsetsSexy corset]], while in her [[spoiler: Sprite]] form, she wears a separate garter belt with a ShowgirlSkirt attached.)
151	* Creator/WarnerBros got in on the act during the early forties, when the ''WesternAnimation/PrivateSnafu'' shorts taught the troops a few things they never learned in school.
152	** Speaking of which, the can-can was always a popular subject in old-school animation, even during the Code era. Many cartoons of the period featured risque gags which never would have made it past the censors otherwise.
153	** In WesternAnimation/PlaneDaffy, [[FemmeFataleSpy Hatta Mari]] wears a red one with the [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]] emblem on it.
154	* WesternAnimation/BettyBoop's garter belt that she wears on her left thigh has become part of her signature look and was often used for comedic purposes in her early cartoons (before UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode interfered). Nowadays, Betty officially wears a yellow or white garter with a red heart design in the middle.
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159	[[folder:Comic Books]]
160	* ''Franchise/TheDCU'':
161	** Both ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} and ComicBook/BlackCanary have fishnets as part of their regular uniform (though Canary has changed a bit, going back and forth to having regular stockings/spandex and back to fishnets).
162	** The villainesses [[ComicBook/InfinityInc Hazard]] and [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Magpie]] too.
163	* Orgasm Lass from ''ComicBook/XXXenophile''.
164	* ComicBook/{{X 23}} often pairs fishnets and miniskirts when she's in civilian garb. ''Especially'' the outfit she wore her first day to school with her cousin in ''Target: X'', and during her prostitute days as seen in ''ComicBook/{{NYX}}''.
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166
167	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
168	* In ''Film/Angel1984'', Molly and Lana wear fishnet stockings and short skirts while picking up johns.
169	* Yvette (Colleen Camp) wears fishnet tights as part of her FrenchMaidOutfit in ''Film/{{Clue}}''.
170	* Every major character at the end of ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''.
171	* Creator/AliciaWitt, in one scene in ''Film/CecilBDemented'', wears torn fishnets, and has "Creator/AndyWarhol" tattooed on her thigh.
172	* Fishnets (usually worn as tights rather than stockings) were almost mandatory uniform for a lead actress in a song-and-dance scene in musicals during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood. Some notable examples are Jane Russell in ''Son of Paleface'' and ''Film/GentlemenPreferBlondes'', Marilyn Monroe in ''Film/BusStop'' (where her fishnets were tattered to reinforce her image as a down-on-her-luck showgirl), Kay Kendall, Mitzi Gaynor and Taina Elg in ''Les Girls'', and Mitzi Gaynor, Cyd Charisse, Vera-Ellen, Leslie Caron or just about any other movie star particularly skilled as a dancer in a movie in which they exercised said skill.
173	* Amber in ''Film/SuckerPunch''.
174	* The Machine Gun Woman's {{Stripperific}} outfit includes fishnets in ''Film/BringMeTheHeadOfTheMachineGunWoman''.
175	* The DisposableSexWorker in ''Film/TheatreOfDeath'' is wearing fishnets and a very tight skirt.
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177
178	[[folder:Video Games]]
179	* Fishnet stockings commonly appear as accessories for female characters in the ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' series, along with garters.
180	** Female jesters in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIII'' are bunny girls, complete with fishnets.
181	** Jessica Albert from ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'' can look like a bunny girl, as well, with the right equipment.
182	** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIX'' is the first game where all equipment is visible on characters, and naturally the fishnet stockings appear.
183	[[/folder]]
184
185	[[folder:Western Animation]]
186	->Note: Fishnets are rarely seen in cartoons because they're difficult to animate without the UnmovingPlaid problem, though a few examples do exist.
187	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' season 5 episode "Bart After Dark", Belle, the owner of the burlesque house, wears fishnets, along with spike-heeled shoes. At one point, she [[ShowSomeLeg pulls up her skirt and crosses her legs, showing her sharply-clad legs]].
188	** In a later episode "The Cartridge Family", one of the hookers at the '''SL'''eep '''EAZY''' motel.
189	* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'': Hexadecimal, again; with fishnets peeking out from above her boots in her post-Season 2 Virus form.
190	* Saffi on ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes''
191	* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', Green Arrow is convinced to join the team when he sees Black Canary put on her fishnet stockings.
192	* Sedusa from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''.
193	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'' episode "Escape from Goochland", Donna wears a prostitute costume that includes fishnets. When she got arrested for being [[MistakenForProstitute mistaken for a real prostitute]], she was thrown to the police van with three real prostitutes, two of them wear fishnets as well.
194	** Roberta's sexy Halloween costume in "It's the Great Pancake, Cleveland Brown" includes fishnets.
195	[[/folder]]
196
197	[[AC: Thigh-Highs]]
198
199	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
200	* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Chachamaru]], all the time -- even when [[{{Fanservice}} bathing]]. It's implied that it's part of her "skin".
201	* ''Manga/MakenKi'': Himegami is rarely seen without her thigh-high stockings, unless she's [[LingerieScene trying on new ones]], to give the audience a long appreciative look at her legs.
202	%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * Kneesocks is Stocking's EvilCounterpart in ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt''.
203	* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': In the manga, Ukyo's chef uniform includes baggy ninja-to style leggings. But in the anime version, she wears form-fitting stockings to accentuate the curvature of her legs.
204	[[/folder]]
205
206	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
207	* "Film/AmericanPsycho" (1999); One of the two prostitutes (Krista Sutton) having a threesome with Patrick Bateman (Creator/ChristianBale) wears black thigh-high stockings; her nylon-sheathed legs, propped on Bateman's shoulders, are seen in a couple of scenes where Bateman is more interested in admiring his physique in the mirror than what he's doing with the woman.
208	* ''Film/ExMachina''. Ava is an [[FemBot android with a feminine form]] but with transparent sections in her head, body, and limbs. In one scene she puts on a wig, dress and knee-high stockings to cover up these sections and make herself more attractive to Caleb. Although it's played for BecomeARealBoy cuteness, she's later shown removing the stockings (knowing Caleb is watching her on the cameras) whereupon it's played for the traditional fanservice. Caleb at this point becomes worried that [[FemmeFatale she's trying to sexually manipulate him]].
209	* ''The Girl'' (1987). When seducing Franco Nero's character, the FilleFatale removes her dress to reveal [[GoingCommando she's got nothing underneath]] except a pair of stockings.
210	* In ''Film/JuliaX'', both Julia and Jessica display a fondness for stockings, with an obvious understanding of the sexual connotations. By the end of the film, Jessica has taken to carrying a scissor blade tucked into her stocking top.
211	* ''Film/TheNotoriousDaughterOfFannyHill'' contains many [[MaleGaze loving shots]] of the eponymous character either slowly putting on, or slowly taking off, black stockings, which she secures with lacy garters.
212	[[/folder]]
213
214	[[folder:Music]]
215	* "Thigh High Nylons", by Mustard Plug, is all about this.
216	* "Stockings", by Music/SuzanneVega
217	[[/folder]]
218
219	[[folder:Pinballs]]
220	* In Creator/{{Capcom}}'s unreleased ''Pinball/{{Kingpin}},'' Trixie the {{Moll}} shows off her stocking-clad legs on the sides of the backbox.
221	[[/folder]]

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