Carols in Tights

by Geraden

One of my activities when I am not online is singing. I am a member of a local choral society, which has a varied repertoire from plainchant and Monteverdi to the Beatles and John Rutter. I suppose that the raciest thing we have done was a bit of Carmina Burana (pornography in a mixture of Latin and Middle High German)!

At this time of year, you guessed it, the repertoire is Christmas carols. We do a couple of carol concerts in local churches, and that is where I have been the last two evenings.

We wear evening dress for concerts – black bow tie, DJ and dress slacks. What let the men's section down was the variety of non-dress socks on display. I kid you not, one of my fellow basses was wearing Homer Simpson socks with his dress suit. Others were wearing a variety of wrinkled woolly monstrosities. However most of the ladies wore tights, either black or beige, though with long skirts there was not much nylon to be seen.

I can report that Geraden's legs were impeccably turned out. On the Thursday I wore M&S silky soft opaques in black. This 50 denier legwear was completely indistinguishable from male dress socks. No one gave my ankles a glance. But the opaques were a bit on the warm side under the dress slacks, so for the second concert on the Friday I wore 20 denier black sheers. I was ready to explain that this was a Spanish fashion, where men wear sheer socks that are called calcetines ejecutivos. But again there was no sign of notice being taken, and no-one asked.

What about the singing?  Our conductor is picky. He insists on the right notes and in the right order and with the right words: but he sometimes has to settle for two out of three! On this occasion however the performances went well and we even got standing ovations.

The tights that I was wearing on the Friday were M&S medium support bodyshapers. I do not normally buy black sheers, because, as I have said before, the colour does not suit my skin type (red headed celtic type, though I am as English as they come). The M&S support tights are excellent for the price, and even better when, like these, they were recently reduced from £4.00 to £1.00. I bought 4 pairs, because at that price they will do for wearing under trousers, though I would not normally show my ankles in them.