Corporate dress codes are barometers of the standards of polite society. Between the lines, they also articulate the limits within which power may permissibly intrude on personal space. Consider, then, the dress and decorum policy of the Mayo Clinic, which is, among other distinctions, a hospital where your doctor is likely to turn up wearing a suit. No casual Friday has ever mussed its calendar. Sheer hosiery entered a steady decline in

Talk about disagreeing. For that generation, wearing pantyhose was the difference between grown woman and little girl. Sometimes I wear pantyhose under pants. GenXers have a different take.

It all started, as best I can tell, when the Wall Street Journal did a story recently on the pantyhose generation gap. Even on conservative Wall Street, the newspaper reported, women were going bare-legged. We're the Midwest. Since then, pantyhose talk has proliferated.

Skip navigation! Story from Hype Machine. So, when we took on the all-important winter wardrobe essential — black tights forever! We also added luxury options Falke, anyone?